{"id":5503,"date":"2025-06-02T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:28:22","slug":"spruce-health-launches-integration-with-athenahealth-to-streamline-healthcare-communication-and-patient-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/spruce-health-launches-integration-with-athenahealth-to-streamline-healthcare-communication-and-patient-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruce Health Launches Integration with athenahealth to Streamline Healthcare Communication and Patient Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spruce Health, the leading platform for healthcare communication and collaboration, is excited to announce a new integration with athenahealth, a premier cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system. This partnership brings together two innovative solutions to create a unified experience for healthcare teams, enabling faster workflows, improved coordination, and reduced administrative overhead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Seamless Sync of Patient Records and Communication<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the new Spruce\u2013athenahealth integration, patient information and communications stay aligned across both platforms, eliminating manual data entry and minimizing errors. Practices will benefit from syncing:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><b>Patient Records:<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sync patient records from athenahealth into Spruce at setup<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatically reflect new patients added in athenahealth<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep key contact fields updated in both systems<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sync provider assignments as tags in Spruce for smarter routing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conversations:<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sync messages and notes from Spruce directly into the athenahealth patient chart<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose between a selective approach that gives you more control (preferred by most users) or automated daily syncing,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based on workflow preferences<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><b>Benefits for Healthcare Teams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2028<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Time Efficiency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028Linking systems reduces manual data entry and corrections, saving an average of 30 seconds per contact update and 15 seconds per message update-adding up to hours saved each week.\u2028<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Seamless Patient Identification<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028Staff can instantly recognize incoming patient calls and texts, improving response times and reducing miscommunication.\u2028<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Centralized Communication &amp; Documentation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028Patient messages and notes are automatically unified in athenahealth, supporting better continuity of care, clinical decision-making, and simplifying billing, audits, and chart reviews.\u2028<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Fast, Flexible Setup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028Practices can get started quickly with guidance from the Spruce support team, including importing patient lists and configuring the integration to match their workflow needs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>How to Get Started\u2028<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practices interested in participating can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/app.sprucehealth.com\/support\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact Spruce Support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to enable the integration, complete the necessary authorization, and begin syncing patient data. New to Spruce? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/?uso=Blog&amp;ume=Content&amp;uca=athenahealthintegration&amp;ute=announcement&amp;uco=TrySpruce\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get started with a 14-day free trial.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur integration with athenahealth marks a significant step forward in reducing administrative burden and empowering care teams to focus on what matters most\u2014delivering exceptional patient care,\u201d said Shriya Ravikumar, Chief Operating Officer at Spruce Health.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/help.sprucehealth.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/35617970639131-Athena-Integration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spruce Health Help Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>About Spruce Health<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028Spruce is a HIPAA-grade, cloud-based communication platform that seamlessly integrates a robust business phone system with texting, faxing, and telemedicine. With Spruce, care teams can optimize collaboration, streamline patient interactions, and ensure accountability \u2014 all while delivering improved clinical and business outcomes, with a solution tailored for healthcare efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>About athenahealth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u2028athenahealth is a leading provider of cloud-based EHR and practice management solutions, helping healthcare organizations improve clinical and financial outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Spruce Health Launches Integration with athenahealth to Streamline Healthcare Communication and Patient Management - Spruce Blog","description":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39],"tags":[358,360,359,361],"different-template":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-whats-new","tag-athenahealth","tag-patient-management","tag-spruce-integration","tag-streamlined-communication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"different-template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/different-template?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}