AthenaClinic brings benefits to all participants: clinics, staff and patients. The system helps clinics run more efficiently with less cost; helps staff to avoid duplicate and tedious filling in of administrative data; helps patients to get better care with less waiting time and fewer administrative procedures. Below is the list of the benefits to a clinic using AthenaClinic software:

Benefits to clinic administrators:

• If the clinic manager decides to use the software for daily operation, they must prepare and modify all clinic processes to be transparent.So the process o deciding to use, of adapting and of deploying the software itself helps clinics work more efficiently and eliminates unnecessary procedures.
• Software usage helps to minimize paperwork and duplicate data copying. Clinics cut their costs for human resources, save time, space and increase productivity.
• Electronic medical records and prescriptions make for better health care. Doctors have complete information (detailed patient histories) for treatment.
• Clinic managers access all clinic operations in real time and can make on time decisions:
  • How many patients are treated by each doctor? How many patients are still waiting?
  • How many patients are treated by each department, by all departments?
  • Cash flow
  • Effectiveness of marketing and discounting activities.
• Utilities such as messaging, working calendars, and lists of online employees help to make information exchange within the clinic easier and more timely.
• Minimization of human mistakes in the cash collection process thanks to automated cost calculation.
• AthenaClinic supports open source operating systems and databases such as Linux and MySQL.  Clinics reduce costs by not licensing other expensive and proprietary software.
• The web-based system helps to reduce the costs of deployment, costs of hardware, maintenance and, upgrade, as mentioned in the overview.
• AthenaClinic has a very user-friendly intuitive graphical interface. Time for user training is minimal.

Benefits to staff:

• Reduction of the day to day tedious work of filling in duplicate data.
• Reduction of effort and avoidance of mistakes in cash collection because of automatic calculation.
• Filling in data is easier with auto-suggest and auto-correct.

 Benefits to patients:

• Minimized waiting time with movement from one queue to another due to administrative procedures.
• Receipts displaying examination fees, insurance, discounts are printed clearly and are easy to read.
• Printed prescriptions are a big advantage for patients. There is no longer any problem with “doctor prescription decrypting”.
• Health care quality is improved since doctors have all the necessary information accumulated from previous visits in time.