Athenahealth API
Athenahealth publishes 800+ REST endpoints at docs.athenahealth.com: free ONC-certified FHIR R4 plus a richer proprietary surface. The sandbox is open with synthetic data, but production needs Marketplace partner acceptance, security review, and customer authorization per connection.
Frequently asked questions
Athenahealth scores F on the API Report Card. Athenahealth publishes 800+ REST endpoints at docs.athenahealth.com: free ONC-certified FHIR R4 plus a richer proprietary surface. The sandbox is open with synthetic data, but production needs Marketplace partner acceptance, security review, and customer authorization per connection.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Athenahealth is a cloud-based healthcare technology company whose flagship product, athenaOne, bundles an Electronic Health Record (EHR), practice management / medical billing (PM), and patient engagement into a single ambulatory platform.
Vertical: Healthcare (ambulatory EHR + revenue cycle management). Front-office staff use athenaOne to check patients in, run eligibility and benefits, collect copays, and schedule follow-ups.
Athenahealth is one of the top three EHR vendors in the US ambulatory market.
Yes, athenaOne is the system of record for nearly everything a practice does.
Founded 1997 by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park as a women's health practice that pivoted to building its own billing software when no off-the-shelf system worked.
Production API access is gated behind Marketplace partnership approval, no path for a practice's in-house developer to get keys without going through partner BD. Marketplace approval process is slow and opaque, requiring legal, security, and usability reviews before any production data flows. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Epic Systems, Oracle Health (Cerner), eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, Greenway Health, Veradigm (Allscripts). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Athenahealth API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Athenahealth data. See the Athenahealth integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/athenahealth-api.