Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks) vs NextGen Healthcare EHR

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited in the clinical setting although a little tedious. Not suited in many other places.

Registered Nurse

Children's Hospital ColoradoHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

NextGen Healthcare Clinical Care Solutions works to get your practice or hospital EMR compliant. It is very difficult to get anything done quickly-- there are so many clicks required to perform simple tasks and when you are patient-facing it makes you look a little silly. It is difficult to input information quickly into the system and patient information does not always upload from their portal. Patients do like that they are able to look up their own records and send messages through this system. It is well suited for a practice that only wants one program to do it all-- billing, scheduling, and the actual practicing. It is, however, very difficult to learn as you need to learn how to trick the system in many cases.

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Employee in Customer Service

Medical Practice Company, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Real-time eligibility verification

Claims management

Coding

Patient billing

Financial Reporting

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Rule-based scheduling

Automated appointment reminders

Automated patient check-in

Multi-location support

Calendar interface

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Charting / document management

Templates

Patient portal

Mobile/tablet support

Fax integration

Integration with other EMR and PM systems

Workflow automation

Speech recognition

Customization

E-prescribing

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

HIPAA compliance

Role-based permission levels

Data backups and redundancy

Local mode / networking failsafe

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Task tracking

Specialty-specific workflows

Multi-office / multi-physician capabilities

Pros

Scheduling - I personally enjoy the ease of use with the solution. It also has a great "memory" as to patient rescheduling, no shows, etc. Being able to create multiple schedules to reflect different practitioners is such a major plus in this system.
Customization - I am able to create Super-bills, Global Periods, and Insurance Details pertinent to each patient and not have to RECREATE them every time like I had to in past systems.
EOB - an added bonus is the ability for the system to check EOB ahead of time. This is a HUGE time saving in an office!

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Katarina L. Rawdan

Information Technology and Services Professional

Flagler HospitalHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Intuitive user interface and ability to access from anywhere.
Accessibility on latest Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Android, iOS on a variety of devices desktops and mobile.
User-friendly graphical user interface and ease of user enrollment.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Only seems applicable for small organizations.

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Maria Porter

Cardiovascular Monitor Technician

SpecialtyCareMedical Practice, 1001-5000 employees

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I think there's still room for fuller integration of the multiple suites that they offer.
Optimizing certain templates to provide a more automated feel

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Medical Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks) 7.0

Based on 2 answers

Everything within the system works smoothly, it’s just time-consuming and could be a bit more simplistic.

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Jordynn Akins, RN, BSN

Registered Nurse

Children's Hospital ColoradoHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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NextGen Healthcare EHR 7.0

Based on 2 answers

Pages load quickly and reports are uploaded quickly. It just takes far too many clicks to get anything complete in this program. If a patient wants to pay for something after we have checked them out of their appointment, or wants to make an appointment it is not efficient. In a busy practice like ours efficiency is key and we need to keep the flow going

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Employee in Customer Service

Medical Practice Company, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I personally would use this system over any other systems currently on the market. Athena has a nice product...however, it can be quite expensive and the colors are draining on the eyes. eClinical Works also has a system that is comparable, but the customization I found wasn't as easy as the Cerner product

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Katarina L. Rawdan

Information Technology and Services Professional

Flagler HospitalHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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I feel like with NextGen we have a well-rounded amount of things that we can do. When we train new hires on how to use this system, it helps that the system is very user-friendly and simple enough to for those to catch on without extensive amounts of training.

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Homero Flores

Refractive Surgery Counselor

Heaton Eye AssociatesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Cerner Practice Management (PowerWorks)

NextGen Healthcare EHR

Likelihood to Recommend