"When I came here 20 years ago, there was a culture that you had to give back. You had to be a part of the fabric of the community."

“In women’s health care, the athenaCommunicator patient portal, to me, is more important than the billing. It’s crucial to patient satisfaction. Nobody else in our area has a system that communicates with patients as well as ours does. It’s the number one differentiator for us.”

"Before athenahealth, at times we had to pull the same chart three times in one day and it would be 'Where is the chart?' or 'Who has the chart?'. Now, the integration of faxes from the hospital and from other health care providers into the electronic record has reduced the …

"Our nurse practitioners save at least two hours in documentation time compared to the other systems we’ve had. When staff need to look at a patient’s chart, we see everything on the same screen—vaccines, medications, history. We don’t have to close out and open new windows. It has made a …