Compare Elation Health and Athenahealth - Feb 2023

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Feb 21, 2023

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Elation Health or Athenahealth?

Elation Health is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Athenahealth, and Athenahealth is rated higher (96/100) than Elation Health (91/100). Athenahealth offers users more features (16) than Elation Health (6). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Athenahealth!

Looking for the right Medical solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

ElationEMR Vs. Athenahealth

ElationEMR: Elation is a venture-funded healthcare startup dedicated to improving the physician-patient relationship. After countless hours shadowing physicians and watching how they use patient medical records in their practices, our team of passionate, tech-savvy individuals designed ElationEMR to be a physician’s command center - an intuitive, easy to use o...

Athenahealth: athenahealth delivers cloud-based services for EHR, practice management and care coordination. Our mission is to be caregivers' most trusted service, helping them do well doing the right thing.

Who is more expensive? Elation Health or Athenahealth?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Medical software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Elation Health and Athenahealth.

Elation Health price starts at $275 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 ElationEMR is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Medical software. Athenahealth price starts at $140 per provider/month + 4% to 7% , When comparing Athenahealth to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Medical software cost.

Bottom line: Elation Health cost is around the same cost of Athenahealth.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Elation Health Vs. Athenahealth based on some of the most important and required Medical features.

Elation Health: Appointment Management, Charting, E-Prescribing, E/M Coding, HIPAA Compliant, Patient portal.

Athenahealth: Security, Accounting & Finance, Billing & Invoicing, Email, Task Management.

Target customer size

ElationEMR is a medical software platform that is primarily designed for healthcare providers such as physicians, medical groups, and clinics.

Athenahealth's medical software is primarily designed for medical practices, including primary care physicians, specialists, and small to mid-size practices.

Elation Health

ITQlick rating
(4.7/5)

starts at $275 per month

ElationEMR is a cloud-based electronic health record solution that comes to users as a suite with medical billing solution and a medical practice management solution available that are suitable for use in all d...

Categories: Document Management, Records Management, CCHIT Certified EMR / EHR, Cloud Based EMR.

Athenahealth

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $140 per provider/month + 4% to 7%

Athenahealth is a cloud-based medical, EMR and EHR software small, medium, and large healthcare enterprises. Its key features include electronic health records, medical billing, patient engagement, claims manag...

Categories: Billing & Invoicing, Medical, Billing Management, Electronic Medical Records, Hospital Management.

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Elation Health: 6 Features

Appointment Management
Charting
E-Prescribing
E/M Coding
HIPAA Compliant
Patient portal

Athenahealth: 16 Features

Security
Accounting & Finance
Billing & Invoicing
Email
Task Management
Backup
Remote Access
Billing & Invoicing
Scheduling
Appointment Management
Charting
E-Prescribing
E/M Coding
HIPAA Compliant
Patient portal
Voice Recognition
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
Functionality score
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Elation ...
ITQlick rating
4.7/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
4.6/10
License pricing
$275 per month
Functionality
27
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Athenahealth
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
96/100
Pricing
4/10
License pricing
$140 per provider/month + 4% to 7%
Functionality
61
NextGen ...
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$299 per provider/month
Functionality
20
Practice...
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2.6/10
License pricing
$149 per provider/month
Functionality
41
WebPT
ITQlick rating
4.4/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
4/10
License pricing
$3 per provider/day
Functionality
30
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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.