athenaOne vs Jane: Which is a better fit?

Katie: My name is Katie. I am the office director at Behavioral Health Clinic. We are about 20 staffs and my rating for athenaOne, the EHR/EMR system, is a five. Before the owner psychiatrist bridged off to start his own clinic and use athenaOne, we used a system at our old clinic. I don't know remember the name. It was from 1997, and it was F1s, F11s, F12s, and it was very, very old school, not a lot of information, and definitely needed an update. The owner and medical director psychiatrist chose athenaOne. Once he chose the system to use, I was the one that helped onboard and set up the entire system for scheduling, credentialing, insurance payers, adding schedules, doing all the portal settings, et cetera, like that. So I'm assuming he chose the platform, because it is such a nice interface and everything flows really well. To get started with athenaOne, it was actually pretty easy on certain platform systems for different departments, such as scheduling, setting up schedules, transferring patients. I know we had a little blip with the adding the insurance payers and the credentialing portion based off the account manager were provided. Granted, we were also in the middle of COVID, July 2020, so the blip was on both sides, but it was pretty easy after a couple months of what we got used to. And then once in-house staff used athena more often, we got used to all the settings, and we were able to internally figure out and troubleshoot with one another. The advice I would give for any company or clinic that is considering using athenaOne, I would give them that everything is all accessible inside athenaOne. You have scheduling. You have insurance verifications. You have portal messages. You have reports you can run. You can send out automatic email campaigns to patients. You can customize that even, so it's not going to all patients, it can only go to certain patients of the day. Here in Minnesota, we have snowstorms, so if patients are coming in the afternoon, we can set a little blip to be sent out to all the patients in the afternoon that we are closing early because of all the snow coming. And now, we don't have to manually sit and call every single patient, so it's all beautifully laid out in each tab in interface.

Nicole: Hi, I'm Nicole. I am a doctor of physical therapy, and I am the owner and founder of Body and Motion Physical Therapy and Wellness. I have a very small practice with three other doctors of physical therapy who work with me, and I would rate JaneApp a five out of five. Before using JaneApp, we were using a program called HoneyBook and it just wasn't EMR-friendly enough for us. It wasn't HIPAA-compliant, so we switched over to JaneApp and we've absolutely loved the abilities that JaneApp has for our practice. The reason why we chose JaneApp in our practice is because it has a really simple online booking system for all of our clients to go online and book. It also has the ability to take payment at the time of service, and as a cash practice, this is really important to us. So all of the portals are right there for our clients to pay and for us to have all the reporting at the end of the day. Speaking of reporting, we also love the ability that we can recapture lost visits and we can go into that report tab and see all of the clients who we haven't seen recently so we can reach out to them. Jane has so many features where it's everything all in one, and we don't have to have multiple programs. We can just rely only on Jane for absolutely everything we need at our practice. JaneApp was really easy to get started with because they have a whole library of videos on their website that help you with everything. And I'll admit, I call them very often, and it's not because there's tech issues, it's because sometimes I'm not super tech-friendly and their customer service is 10 out of 10. They're always so easy to reach, so friendly, and absolutely help me every single time. I would absolutely suggest if you are thinking about getting Jane, it is the best EMR system. Just do it. You can hop on a phone call with them, or what I did is I did a demo with them. And as soon as I did a demo, I absolutely loved it. So my advice is if you're thinking about an EMR system and you are a therapist, you should do it.