Southwestern hospital to connect community with athenahealth

Holy Cross Hospital, a regional care acute care delivery organization serving northern New Mexico, has selected athenaClinicals and athenaCollector, athenahealth’s web-based EHR service and medical billing service, respectively, to connect its owned physician group of 40 providers and rural medical clinics.

Holy Cross Hospital, a Taos, N.M.-based Holy Cross Hospital, also is offering athenahealth’s services to its affiliated community physician group of 30 providers through a financial assistance program to connect doctors and patients across the health network, added athenahealth, of Watertown, Mass.

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