07/25/2026
If your medical practice uses athenahealth and Google Calendar, your physicians may be managing two schedules, while the front desk books from just one.
Patient appointments live in athenahealth. Staff meetings, billing calls, lunch, conferences, and time away live on Google Calendar.
Neither calendar sees the full picture. A 2:15 p.m. slot can look open in athenahealth even when the physician is unavailable.
The result: a scheduling conflict, more work for the medical practice manager and front desk, and often a patient phone call and apology.
Three common workarounds (and the gap each leaves):
1. Re-enter every change in both systems. It works until a busy day makes duplicate entry easy to miss.
2. Block time manually in athenahealth. This depends on the physician notifying staff—and someone remembering to update the schedule.
3. Use a one-way calendar sync. athenahealth appointments appear in Google Calendar, but changes made in Google Calendar never return to athenahealth. The schedules can still drift apart.
Sporo Health is a athenahealth Google Calendar two-way calendar sync for physicians, medical practice managers, and scheduling teams.
→ Book, reschedule, or cancel an appointment in athenahealth, and Google Calendar updates.
→ Create or move an availability block in Google Calendar, and athenahealth updates.
→ Personal time in Google Calendar can block the corresponding slot in athenahealth, so schedulers don’t book over it.
Our team configures the integration with your practice, so there is no custom integration project for your team to build or maintain. Simple practices can be live in as little as 30 minutes; typical go-live takes 2–3 days.
Swipe through the PDF to see how the two-way sync works.