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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CGM Medisoft

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACGM Medisoft is a practice management solution that helps users serve patients with personalized, compassionate care while keeping up a modern, successful practice. CGM MEDISOFT EHR offers an EHR designed to complement and simplify workflows. CGM MEDISOFT PM combines revenue cycle management to provide an all-in-one practice management bundle.N/A

    DrChrono

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADrChrono in Sunnyvale offers what they describe as a complete EHR, Practice Management, and Revenue Cycle Management Solution - Available on iPad, iPhone, and Web. DrChrono offers solutions for speciality practices as well.

    $199

    per month

    Power Diary

    Score1.1 out of 10
    N/APower Diary is a Health Care Practice Management application for physiotherapy providers from the company of the same name in Ballarat.

    $5

    per week per seat

    Pricing
    CGM MedisoftDrChronoPower Diary
    Editions & Modules
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    Starting Price
    $199.00
    per month
    Just Me
    $10
    per week
    Light
    $16
    per week
    Medium
    $26
    per week
    Large
    $42
    per week
    Plus
    Scales with calendars needed
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CGM MedisoftDrChronoPower Diary
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    CGM MedisoftDrChronoPower Diary
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.1
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    -
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    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    CGM MedisoftDrChronoPower Diary
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CompuGroup Medical
    For smaller practices that do not bill insurance, Medisoft may be a bit more than they really need. However, if they desire the ability to track patient appointments and financials all in one place, as well as run detailed reports on practice data, this still may be a good option.
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    DrChrono
    Templates are customizable and you can take pictures directly into a patient's chart. DrChrono is less appropriate for this reason: they have been working on enrolling my company for Medicare electronic billing for [seven months]. [As a result], I have been unable to bill for any Medicare patients for [seven months]. The only person I have talked to was in India [and] ([the] email address ended in .india). I have had to call Medicare to try to figure out how to complete the enrollment process, [and I ended up with this response from Medicare: "DrChrono needs to [stop being lazy and do something]!." I lost [a] significant [amount of] money. [...]
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    Power Diary
    The most important thing is that I feel confident that my client records are kept secure and private, and that Power Diary has strict security and privacy measures in place
    and compliance with relevant legislative and regulatory requirements. Data is
    encrypted, and two factor authentication is required to access the system. I can't think of any scenarios where it would be less appropriate to use.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    CompuGroup Medical
    • Medisoft is relatively easy to use.
    • There are a lot of customizable features.
    • Training users on the product is not a long process because it is intuitive.
    Incentivized
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    DrChrono
    • Documentation Template Customization
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    Power Diary
    • Product Functionality
    • Integration with Xero
    Read full review
    Cons
    CompuGroup Medical
    • Medisoft is hard to teach to new employees.
    Incentivized
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    DrChrono
    • [Onboarding] trainers and tech support do not know the program.
    • [All] DrChrono calls are from blocked, [unknown], or their personal numbers. [Looking] at [each] caller ID, you have to answer every call because they do not register as DrChrono.
    • DrChrono [uses] [Google] phone and [I could] not understand what [a] trainer [said] [when I called them]. [I could not hear what the trainer said] over the noise of other conversations on [Google] phone.
    • [I] [had] absolutely no way of talking to tech support in person.
    • [Tech] support tickets [are] unanswered.
    • [They] do not know how to enroll providers to bill Medicare electronically.
    • [There was] absolutely no accountability.
    • [The] platform was constantly down [and was very frustrating].
    • [There was a] consistently, delayed submission.
    • [Every] day, [I got] an email about a problem that they are working on.
    • [Weekly] issues for platform [was] addressed for slowness.
    • Tech support needs [to have professional people answering tech problems, needs to be reliable, and be responsive whenever someone has issues].
    • [The] tutorial videos [for DrChrono] are from several years [ago] and no longer apply to the [most] current platform layout.
    • [The] help browser [is] nonfunctional.
    • [Tech support is not well trained. You can not talk to anyone in person and they often do not answer tech tickets. Onboard trainers do not know their system. Customer often figures out the answers before the training rep. Between the accent and the noise of Google phone, my entire training session was asking her to repeat what she said. When they are rated lowest of the group for tech support, it is for a reason].
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    Power Diary
    • In records and files I want to create folders especially with my NDIS clients
    • My onboarding in the beginning was not the greatest as I got more from YouTube
    • They are my main two
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    DrChrono has resulted in revenue loss
    Read full review
    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    If you don't want to do anything custom, the platform is pretty easy to navigate.
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    Power Diary
    I think Power Diary is relatively intuitive however of late, over development of certain features with insufficient user experience testing, and, in my opinion, no desire to resolve the concerns of customers shows me that Power Diary's business model is not customer centric, but self centric and most businesses with this ethos fail in time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    I am glad I am not always affected by the platform problems. You get daily emails notifying you they are working on slowness, ERA submission problems etc
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    For the most part, the program slowness has not affected me directly.
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    Their tech support is not well trained. You can not talk to tech support directly. You have to submit work tickets, which have gone unanswered
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    When being trained on the billing program, rather than start at the beginning and "TRAIN HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM" the trainer kept asking me what questions I had. I kept saying I don't know what I don't know. Her response was, ok, were done then. You don't have anymore questions. The only thing I could think to do was ask her to explain each item in each drop down box, but she would just read out loud the drop down choices and ask what questions I had. This pretty much sums up their training.
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    If you have used other EHR and programs, over time you will be able to self train for DrChrono
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    CompuGroup Medical
    I prefer Medisoft due to ease of use, functionality and custom report features. In my experience with other software programs I found them to be either less user friendly or lacking in key features that we require for our particular practice.
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    DrChrono
    TheraOffice has the best tech support and onboarding training. WebPT is also good, but their charting templates lack customization. RehabOptima and Casamba are straight forward and reliable. I am currently stuck with DrChrono.
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    Power Diary
    This is the first time I have used this type of practice management system. I used the Specialist Homelessness Information Platform (SHIP) in my previous role, which made it easier for me to transition to using Power Diary.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    CompuGroup Medical
    No answers on this topic
    DrChrono
    The platform is often being worked on for slowness.
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    Power Diary
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    CompuGroup Medical
    • Medisoft is a good product, but I feel the cost of assurance is too high.
    • With all the different components each being billed separately adds up quickly.
    • Keeping patient charts/bills up to date is pretty easy.
    Incentivized
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    DrChrono
    • Negative: I have lost reimbursement due to the time for tech support to address ticket and the max claims submission time.
    • Negative: I have [not had any medicare revenue for seven months] due to DrChrono not knowing how to enroll for Medicare Electronic Billing. This issue still has not been resolved.
    • Negative: Lost time due to the platform being down or running slow.
    • Negative: Slow claims processing.
    • Negative: DrChrono needs [qualified] tech support, [quality] [for] onboard training, [timely] response to technical issues, [and timely] response to billing issues.
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    Power Diary
    • I am still to work out if my ROI is going to be beneficial
    Incentivized
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