Children’s Hospital Central California Selects athenahealth to Help Achieve Higher-Quality, Comprehensive Patient Care
athenahealth’s cloud-based serviceswillprovide
enhanced physician-patient connectivity across California's Central
Valley pediatric population
WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based
electronic health record (EHR),
practice management, and care
coordination services to medical groups and health systems, today
announced that Children's Hospital Central California will implement
athenahealth’s integrated, cloud-based services to drive better practice
management, care coordination, and patient care. Across its system of
127 providers, Children's Hospital Central California, a not-for-profit
children’s hospital and the prime provider of pediatric care in
California’s Central Valley, will begin using athenahealth’s Best in
KLAS EHR service, athenaClinicals®; streamlined medical
billing and practice management service, athenaCollector®;
and patient
communication service, athenaCommunicator®.
“As a growing hospital that last year alone exceeded 130,000 ambulatory
visits, it’s critical that our operational and clinical workflows help
drive high-quality, well-coordinated care across a range of settings,”
said Dave Hodge, Jr., Executive Director of Ambulatory Care at
Children's Hospital Central California. “athenahealth’s cloud-based
model introduces a new level of visibility into our own performance and
allows us to learn from the processes and execution of some 40,000
healthcare providers across the athenahealth network. This partnership
supports our initiative to create high-value efficiencies across the
care continuum to benefit our provider base and patient population.”
Jonathan Bush, chairman and CEO of athenahealth added, “Children's
Hospital Central California is the jewel of pediatric care in the
Valley, treating an underserved, ever-growing pediatric population in a
shifting health care landscape, and we are proud to be their chosen HIT
partner. The flexibility of our cloud-based services will provide
enhanced patient connectivity to physicians across their extensive
network and concurrently improve practice management efficiency, which
at the end of the day will bring a higher quality of care to a region
that is dependent on the success of this forward-thinking hospital.”
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based Best in KLAS
electronic health record (EHR),
practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups
and health systems. athenahealth’s mission is to be the most trusted
service to medical care givers, helping them do well by doing the right
thing. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
or call 888-652-8200.
About Children's Hospital Central California
For 60 years Children’s Hospital Central California has provided hope,
healing and the best medical care for children of the region. Children’s
is a not-for-profit, state-of-the-art children’s hospital on a 50-acre
campus situated on the bluffs of the San Joaquin River. With 348 beds
and a medical staff of more than 525 physicians, Children’s is the
second-largest children’s hospital in California and one of the 10
largest hospitals of its type in the nation. To learn more about
Children’s visit www.ChildrensCentralCal.org.
athenahealth (Media) Holly Spring, 781-888-8219 hspring@athenahealth.com or athenahealth
(Investors) Dana Quattrochi, 617-402-1329 dquattrochi@athenahealth.com
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athenahealth’s cloud-based services will provide enhanced physician-patient connectivity across California's Central Valley pediatric population
WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups and health systems, today announced that Children's Hospital Central California will implement athenahealth’s integrated, cloud-based services to drive better practice management, care coordination, and patient care. Across its system of 127 providers, Children's Hospital Central California, a not-for-profit children’s hospital and the prime provider of pediatric care in California’s Central Valley, will begin using athenahealth’s Best in KLAS EHR service, athenaClinicals®; streamlined medical billing and practice management service, athenaCollector®; and patient communication service, athenaCommunicator®.
“As a growing hospital that last year alone exceeded 130,000 ambulatory visits, it’s critical that our operational and clinical workflows help drive high-quality, well-coordinated care across a range of settings,” said Dave Hodge, Jr., Executive Director of Ambulatory Care at Children's Hospital Central California. “athenahealth’s cloud-based model introduces a new level of visibility into our own performance and allows us to learn from the processes and execution of some 40,000 healthcare providers across the athenahealth network. This partnership supports our initiative to create high-value efficiencies across the care continuum to benefit our provider base and patient population.”
Jonathan Bush, chairman and CEO of athenahealth added, “Children's Hospital Central California is the jewel of pediatric care in the Valley, treating an underserved, ever-growing pediatric population in a shifting health care landscape, and we are proud to be their chosen HIT partner. The flexibility of our cloud-based services will provide enhanced patient connectivity to physicians across their extensive network and concurrently improve practice management efficiency, which at the end of the day will bring a higher quality of care to a region that is dependent on the success of this forward-thinking hospital.”
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based Best in KLAS electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups and health systems. athenahealth’s mission is to be the most trusted service to medical care givers, helping them do well by doing the right thing. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com or call 888-652-8200.
About Children's Hospital Central California
For 60 years Children’s Hospital Central California has provided hope, healing and the best medical care for children of the region. Children’s is a not-for-profit, state-of-the-art children’s hospital on a 50-acre campus situated on the bluffs of the San Joaquin River. With 348 beds and a medical staff of more than 525 physicians, Children’s is the second-largest children’s hospital in California and one of the 10 largest hospitals of its type in the nation. To learn more about Children’s visit www.ChildrensCentralCal.org.
athenahealth (Media)
Holly Spring, 781-888-8219
hspring@athenahealth.com
or
athenahealth (Investors)
Dana Quattrochi, 617-402-1329
dquattrochi@athenahealth.com
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