ROME, Ga. and WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan. 9, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, today announced that Harbin Clinic, Georgia's largest privately-owned, multi-specialty medical group with over 160 medical providers has selected athenahealth's centrally-hosted, on-demand practice management and billing service, athenaCollector(sm), in an effort to improve operational and financial results across its care delivery organization.
"Given our market position and size, we need a service-based solution for our practice management and billing," said Kenneth F. Davis, M.D., President and CEO of Harbin Clinic. "With over 20 locations, we were looking for an intuitive, national practice management platform that would allow us to enhance operations and improve collections across our enterprise. We feel athenahealth is uniquely positioned to deliver this kind of solution."
"We are excited that Georgia's leading medical group has selected our athenaNet(r) platform and will join our growing national physician network," said Jonathan Bush, Chairman and CEO of athenahealth. "Harbin Clinic will now benefit from the collective clinical and payer knowledge of thousands of physicians across the nation while also gaining a powerful new operational tool as they look to execute on their strategic growth strategy."
athenahealth's practice management and billing service, athenaCollector, is a physician revenue cycle management offering that integrates centrally-hosted, internet-based practice management software, continually updated payer knowledge, and back-office processing specialists into a single service. In combination with its award-winning practice management software functionality, athenahealth has built in a proprietary knowledge-base of national payer reimbursement process rules, athenaRules(sm), which is designed to enforce physician office workflow requirements, and is continually updated with payer-specific coding and documentation information.
About Harbin Clinic
The Harbin Clinic was founded in 1948 as the successor to the Harbin Hospital that was founded in 1908 by Drs. W.P. and R.M. Harbin. Harbin Clinic is Georgia's largest privately-owned, multi-specialty physician clinic. Harbin clinic is an organization of physicians, allied health personnel and support staff, whose goal is to provide the best care in primary and specialty health services. The Harbin Clinic physicians have a 11-county referral base consisting of Bartow, Chattooga, Cherokee, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Polk, Walker, and Paulding counties in Georgia and Cherokee and DeKalb counties in Alabama. The Harbin Clinic's main campus is located at 1825 Martha Berry Boulevard in Rome, Georgia. More than 20 satellite offices are located throughout Rome and in Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Adairsville and Bremen.
About athenahealth
athenahealth is the leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices. The Company's service offerings are based on proprietary internet-based practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base and integrated back-office service operations. For more information visit www.athenahealth.com or call (888) 652-8200.
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