Customer Snapshot

athenahealth is a technology pioneer in the healthcare industry, serving over 160,000 providers with a vision to build a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable care for all. Its offerings span electronic health records, practice and revenue cycle management, patient engagement solutions, and care coordination.

Known for its ability to move quickly and simplify complexities within ambulatory care by offering technology and services that improve clinical effectiveness, enhance the patient experience, and drive financial performance, athenahealth continues to invest in tools that drive scalable innovation.

Strategic Opportunity

An advocate of responsible AI, athenahealth was an early adopter of the SaaS-based Windsurf Plugins product. athenahealth’s move to roll out the SaaS-based Windsurf Editor represents the next phase of its AI strategy, one focused on maximizing developer productivity, security, and innovation.

“We work with highly critical systems and sensitive information that must be protected to safeguard the lives of patients being treated by physicians. At athenahealth, we take a rigorous approach to every technology decision. With Windsurf, we uphold our standards and empower our teams to build quickly.”- Jeremy Luallen, Director of R&D Productivity

Why Windsurf

athenahealth conducted a comprehensive evaluation of developers tools and AI-powered coding assistants and Windsurf emerged as the strategic choice for several key reasons:

• Top Quality Product Performance Across the Board: The Windsurf Editor delivered a context aware, agentic experience that was among the strongest in the market.

• Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance: The Windsurf Editor demonstrated full alignment with zero data retention (ZDR) policies and HIPAA requirements.

• Advanced Support for Enterprise Codebases: Built to operate efficiently across large-scale, complex code bases.

• Comprehensive Tech Stack Compatibility that meets a very diverse ecosystem: Seamlessly integrated across athenahealth’s diverse development landscape

• White-Glove Support: High-touch service model ensuring rapid adoption, smooth onboarding, and ongoing success.

• Roadmap Aligned with Developer Needs: A forward-looking product vision and roadmap that powers how modern engineering teams work.

athenahealth’s partnership with Windsurf underscores its commitment to responsible AI adoption grounded in business value and operational excellence. “Everyone on our team is very excited about the Windsurf Editor.” Jeremy Luallen, Director of R&D Productivity.

Key outcomes:

• Faster Development Cycles - Engineers are learning to spend more time on architecture and innovation, and less on repetitive coding tasks.
• Improved Cross-Team Collaboration - Features like Custom Workflows, Windsurf Reviews, and Conversation Sharing are streamlining handoffs and coordination across engineering teams.
• Cultural Shift Toward Innovation - By reducing friction in day-to-day development, Windsurf is steadily empowering teams to move faster and think bigger.

What’s Next

athenahealth’s partnership with Windsurf is a strategic commitment to shaping the future of healthcare. By empowering its engineers with the Windsurf Editor, athenahealth is setting a new standard for innovation at scale and driving real world impact across the communities it serves.

If you would like to discover how Windsurf can help your team move faster, stay secure, and unlock innovation, let’s talk.