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CS PracticeWorks Software vs. NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

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    CS PracticeWorks Software

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACarestream Dental offers CS PracticeWorks Software, a scheduling and payment management platform for dentist offices.N/A

    NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ANextGen Healthcare provides practice management solutions that support a patient-centric revenue cycle, enabling practices of all sizes to succeed in today's complex healthcare climate. According to the vendor, real-time clinical and administrative workflows help reduce physician burnout and achieve value-based reimbursement goals. The product is available on any device or platform, and helps automate patient registration, appointment scheduling, medical billing, claims processing, and…N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Testimonials
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    Carestream Dental
    PracticeWorks is best suited for a smaller office who wants easy to use software without a lot of bells and whistles. It is very user friendly but is limited with customization options. There are better software systems for an office that wants to incorporate extensive marketing with the software. Overall it is easy to use.
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    NextGen Healthcare
    To start, Nextgen PM is NOT well-suited for companies who are looking for a could-based product—you will be required to house this software on your own server (this will force that company to maintain their own infrastructure). The solution is great for a company looking for a PM/EHR combo that communicates well with each other. The two modules are owned by the same company and does not require a costly API/bridge to be built between the two programs.
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    Pros
    Carestream Dental
    • Scheduling - the schedule is easy to read and color code by procedure, doctor, or patient status.
    • Imaging - we also implement Kodak Imaging through PW and it is great.
    • Overall layout is easy to use.
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    NextGen Healthcare
    • Ability to save favorite phrases and templates to make charting more efficient for providers.
    • Ability to interface with Question Diagnostics for certain laboratory tests.
    • Ability to send and receive tasks to other user(s) on the system as well as send future tasks and reminders to yourself.
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    Cons
    Carestream Dental
    • The patient handouts such as treatment plans and billing are very outdated looking.
    • Buggy at times
    • Marketing is behind the times. It is very difficult to run email lists for targeted procedures and no way to send an email blast from PW directly.
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    NextGen Healthcare
    • More robust online scheduling solution
    • Integrated solution for online payments
    • More Robust AI solution for AI charting for providers
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    Usability
    Carestream Dental
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    NextGen Healthcare
    Overall, a very easy and robust system to use for small practices. It enables us to keep billing in house and connectivity with various databases keep the providers "in the know" about what's going on with their patients. Some solutions - such as the patient portal and online scheduling are cumbersome and we have difficulty getting patients to use them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Carestream Dental
    We evaluated Dentrix at the time of purchase. At that time PracticeWorks had bought out our software vendor. We chose to go with Practice Works since they would get a better conversion of our current patients. As time has passed, we have been told Dentrix has more customization options.
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    NextGen Healthcare
    We feel that Nextgen does not stack up very well against the cloud-based software on the market. Housing the underlying tables on your own hardware requires COSTLY man hours. We are in the business of providing health care services to patients, not database administration. Introducing cloud-based products has had a tremendously positive effect on our business.
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    Return on Investment
    Carestream Dental
    • PracticeWorks helps us keep up to date with patient recall and keeping the schedule full.
    • PracticeWorks tracks treatment needed.
    • PracticeWorks Office Expert tracks daily/weekly goals and things to do easily.
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    NextGen Healthcare
    • Nextgen did a good job of transitioning our practice away from paper health records.
    • I believe that the Return on Investment would have been much higher had we gone straight to a cloud-based tool.
    • By getting our feet wet with Nextgen, we have a pretty good understanding of Practice Management software. In other words, we could plug and play with most systems on the market.
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