From empowering patients with AI-driven access to their health data, to enabling closed-loop referrals across EHRs, athenahealth’s open architecture brings real-time data into clinical workflows
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–athenahealth will showcase at HIMSS (March 9–12, Booth 3231) how its AI-native athenaOne® platform securely unlocks data access across the healthcare ecosystem. Additionally, the company will highlight how its intelligent interoperability efforts are transforming the industry beyond compliance and basic data exchange to provide practices with a seamless experience that makes the most relevant clinical insights visible and actionable at the point of care.
athenahealth will hold speaking roles across various sessions at HIMSS:
- Expo Hall Main Stage | Tue., March 10, 2:40–3:10 p.m. PT Rethinking Interoperability: Is it Time to Trust LLMs over Standards? — Moderated by the American Hospital Association, leaders from athenahealth, Concord Technologies, Oceans Healthcare, and North Shore Community Health will discuss whether AI and large language models (LLMs) can finally solve healthcare’s longstanding interoperability challenge.
- Expo Hall Main Stage | Tue., March 10, 3:25–3:55 p.m. PT AI-Powered Ambulatory Enterprise: Transforming Operations — athenahealth and its customer Allied Digestive Health, represented by COO Sap Sinha, will speak about the work his team has done to maximize AI’s impact on reducing operational friction and improving clinical efficiency. HIMSS attendees are welcome to visit athenahealth’s booth to continue this conversation on Wednesday March 11 at noon PT.
- Interoperability Pavilion | Tue., March 10, 12:45–1:05 p.m. PT Connecting the Care Continuum — Leaders from Sutter Health, Raleigh Neurology Associates, Epic, and athenahealth will discuss and demonstrate scaling seamless data flow across affiliated and independent ambulatory practices, including Referral 360x. HIMSS attendees are welcome to visit athenahealth’s booth to continue this conversation at 2:30 p.m. PT.
- Interoperability Pavilion | Tue., March 10, 3:45–4:05 p.m. PT Transforming Care Delivery Through Real-Time, Standards-Based Data Exchange — athenahealth and Aetna will discuss using standardized clinical data exchange to surface care gaps inside provider workflows, reducing friction and improving payer-provider coordination.
- Interoperability Pavilion | Wed., March 11, 2:45–3:05 p.m. PT From Clipboards to QR Code: A New Era of Patient-Led Intake — athenahealth and b.well Connected Health will discuss transforming patient intake with a new digital workflow that lets patients securely share their health information as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative.
- Connect Theater | Wed., March 11, 3:15–3:45 p.m. PT Navigating Regulatory Complexity: Federal Deregulation and State Health IT Requirements — athenahealth, Altera Digital Health, and the EHR Association chair will examine the evolving landscape of health IT amid shifting federal priorities and ongoing technology advancements.
At HIMSS, athenahealth will introduce athenaConnect, an intelligent interoperability layer that provides a single access point for external health systems, community hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostic labs, and partners to connect and coordinate care with 170,000 athenahealth providers serving 20% of the U.S. population. This intelligent interoperability layer brings together integration solutions that uniquely bridge athenaOne with external partners, enabling practices to coordinate care across local healthcare markets. It allows the right clinical information to reach providers at the right time, in the right workflows.
HIMSS attendees are invited to visit athenahealth at booth 3231 to learn more about athenaConnect and to preview other innovative solutions designed to enhance patient experience and care coordination, including:
- Demo: Patient Conversations | Tue., March 10, 12:30 p.m. PT Unlocking Patient Experience in Practice — athenahealth will demo its integrated Patient Conversations feature, allowing practice staff to start text chats with patients directly from the EHR and seamlessly transition to secure web chat for protected communication. This includes AI-powered handling of patient-initiated calls to the practice phone, with staff escalation and support as needed.
- Demo: Patient MCP Server | Wed., March 11, 10:30 a.m. PT Skeleton Key to Unlock Secure Patient AI — athenahealth will preview its industry-first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for patients that enables secure, structured access to their athenahealth data for authorized agentic AI tools like Claude. Patients have full control over this option and must enable this capability to receive personalized, clinically relevant insights within their AI chats.
- Demo: athenahealth and b.well Connected Care | Wed., March 11, 11:30 a.m. PT Kill the Clipboard — athenahealth and b.well Connected Health will showcase a new point-of-care workflow that allows patients to securely share their health information digitally during intake — without paper forms, faxes, or multiple portal logins.
- Demo: 360x | Wed., March 11, 3:30 p.m. PT Closing the Loop: Better Referrals, Better Outcomes — athenahealth will introduce its referral management capabilities, leveraging 360x Standards and Protocols to enhance care coordination across the healthcare ecosystem. This ensures efficient referral handling, reduces delays, and improves outcomes by enabling seamless information exchange between different Electronic Health Record systems.
At HIMSS and beyond, athenahealth is demonstrating a core principle: when data flows freely and securely, everyone in the healthcare ecosystem — clinicians, patients, and partners alike — benefits.
For more information or to request a meeting, visit athenahealth’s HIMSS event page.
The 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition will take place March 9–12, 2026, at The Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas.
About athenahealth, Inc.
Since 1997, athenahealth has been curing complexity for ambulatory healthcare practices and the patients they serve, empowering them to deliver the best possible care and business outcomes through innovative clinical, financial, and patient engagement solutions. athenahealth connects practices, health systems, payers, partners and patients to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Learn more at athenahealth.com.
Contacts
Ashley Henson
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