NextGen Healthcare EHR vs. Salesforce Health Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NextGen Healthcare EHR
Score 7.9 out of 10
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NextGen® EHR solutions meet the needs of ambulatory practices of all sizes by helping users coordinate patient care, while complying with healthcare reform demands such as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), population health, and other value-based care requirements. NextGen® Enterprise EHR built for large practices delivers a fully integrated, scalable system that helps clients achieve interoperability, patient engagement, regulatory compliance, and value-based…N/A
Salesforce Health Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Salesforce Health Cloud is a patient and member relationship platform designed to deliver personalized engagement, and provide a complete view of the patient. With Health Cloud, care teams have access to clinical and non-clinical patient and member data including current health conditions and medications, appointment history, communication preferences, and data from the EHR and other systems. Teams are able to work across entire patient and member groups to provide care, faster.N/A
Pricing
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Billing and Claims Management
Comparison of Billing and Claims Management features of Product A and Product B
NextGen Healthcare EHR
8.4
16 Ratings
9% above category average
Salesforce Health Cloud
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Ratings
Real-time eligibility verification8.616 Ratings00 Ratings
Claims management8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Coding8.615 Ratings00 Ratings
Patient billing9.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Reporting8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Patient Scheduling
Comparison of Patient Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
NextGen Healthcare EHR
8.6
13 Ratings
7% above category average
Salesforce Health Cloud
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Rule-based scheduling8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated appointment reminders8.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated patient check-in9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location support9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Calendar interface8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Medical Records
Comparison of Electronic Medical Records features of Product A and Product B
NextGen Healthcare EHR
6.9
16 Ratings
5% below category average
Salesforce Health Cloud
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Charting / document management7.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Templates6.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Patient portal6.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile/tablet support6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Fax integration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with other EMR and PM systems7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow automation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Speech recognition7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
E-prescribing8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Medical Security and Privacy
Comparison of Medical Security and Privacy features of Product A and Product B
NextGen Healthcare EHR
7.7
16 Ratings
9% below category average
Salesforce Health Cloud
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HIPAA compliance9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based permission levels6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data backups and redundancy9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Local mode / networking failsafe7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow and Scale
Comparison of Workflow and Scale features of Product A and Product B
NextGen Healthcare EHR
6.8
16 Ratings
14% below category average
Salesforce Health Cloud
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Task tracking6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Specialty-specific workflows6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-office / multi-physician capabilities8.516 Ratings00 Ratings
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NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Small Businesses
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 7.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Score 9.9 out of 10
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Epic
Epic
Score 8.4 out of 10

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User Ratings
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(17 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.8
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NextGen Healthcare EHRSalesforce Health Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
NextGen Healthcare
I would recommend NextGen Healthcare EHR 9 times out of 10 for a mid-sized multi-specialty practice, internal medicine, family practice, peds, and behavioral health (for CHCs, FQHCs, and private practice), but beyond that, I don't believe that NextGen Healthcare EHR is the best solution most times. Consider having all staff at all levels read "Raving Fans" and employ the model. Do what you do well, don't do what you can't do well. You'll be far more successful.
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Salesforce
The best scenario [is] that it has [a] particular object which can directly store the records of the client [who] has purchased the policy and practitioner details with [their] expertise. The users can directly book the appointment using LWC or Aura components which can be exposed on websites. The object will be linked with each other [using] a lookup relation which creates a complete framework to handle the cases and details of the clients, [their] policies, and other details as well. Booking or finding a practitioner can be done with the [Salesforce] Health Cloud app where it can use [your] current location and provide details of [available] nearby doctors. Health Cloud supports live agent as well where a user can get the details on his insurance policy and get other help if he need from the chat option with live agent.
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Pros
NextGen Healthcare
  • NextGen has always stayed on top of the many changes every year and remained certified. I have seen many EHR companies go out of business or seen users have to change EHR systems in order to remain compliant for reporting.
  • With NextGen, I am able to make a few customizations that my providers ask for to make their documentation easier. Not all EHR's are customizable. While it is not best practice to do a lot of customizations, sometimes it is worth the extra work to keep your providers happy!
  • I love going to the NextGen User Group Meeting they have every year. I always learn things I didn't know and learn more about the things I do. They offer classes for everyone no matter what you do that pertains to NextGen. Even Government updates for healthcare.
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Salesforce
  • [There] are particular objects such as person accounts which [are] linked with [health care company accounts if they have a policy].
  • We have flows and pages where a user or client can book [their] appointment with a practitioner and get instant help by raising a case or request for [an] appointment.
  • [Salesforce] Health Cloud keeps all the records of clients and practitioners and can link them when and where ever needed.
  • Objects in the managed package have [a] standard field which gives a perfect solution with out-of-the-box functionality without creating such a model or structure.
  • We can raise cases or requests and [use] automation tools like flows [so] the case will be assigned to [a] practitioner or the queue of the user.
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Cons
NextGen Healthcare
  • EHR and Practice Management are two completely different interfaces within the same program and are not easily navigated.
  • Only super users can perform all tasks, making it so all staff needs to become a super user.
  • Credit Card processing is difficult to set up and change-- we moved offices but need to process CC payments through our old office.
  • When patients prefill their registration information online, we are unable to confirm their insurance information due to small glitches with the program.
  • There are multiple ways to view the daily schedule, and none of them are easy to use.
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Salesforce
  • They can have standard pages or components which can directly be used to book or record the appointment with the practitioner.
  • [I believe] there is nothing more that [Salesforce] Health Cloud can improve as already everything comes under automation, from [booking] to service issues, everything is automated.
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Usability
NextGen Healthcare
The usability of the product is great. The difficulty that we have is in the background with the speed of servers or of things loading. If there are any issues with the remote server, things can really slow down drastically.
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Salesforce
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Performance
NextGen Healthcare
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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Salesforce
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Support Rating
NextGen Healthcare
Tier 1 support is useless. They gather details we've already provided and have no idea how to help us. Techs just call rather than scheduling an appointment which means we are in the middle of something else and our internal IT is unavailable to provide appropriate connection. Webex details aren't provided in advance of the call so it's difficult to get connected timely to have a conversation in real time during the support session. Many issues drag on for months and tickets get closed without resolution. It's a "known issue" is the most unhelpful response to a recurring problem. UGM Learning Lab is perfect because the issues based experts are there! It would be ideal to always be connected like that in real time
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Salesforce
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Alternatives Considered
NextGen Healthcare
NG is like no other software I have ever used. I thought if you used one software they are all alike. Not this software, it is totally different but let me tell you very thorough and it also can track anything that anyone has done in a work day. Good auditing system.
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Salesforce
When it comes to Health Cloud in other CRM we have to create the related object and fields and we have to set [up] a complete architecture for the healthcare business to run over the CRM. But here Salesforce is proving a managed package, which is Health Cloud, has the framework already built we just [have to] use the standard functionality and get our task with automation done. This has definitely reduced the effort of developers as well as the agents who are working on the Health Cloud. [Even] a person with very little coding skill can use this CRM and get [their] task cases, etc. automated and [the] perfect solution can be built with low efforts.
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Return on Investment
NextGen Healthcare
  • Our AR days are very low compared to industry standard.
  • We end up using many 3rd party tools (IMO, virtual scribes, voice recognition, etc.) to accommodate shortfalls.
  • In my experience, some support issues take over a year to resolve. In the meantime, you have to develop workarounds.
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Salesforce
  • Definitely, [the ability] to handle [a] large number of users, [Salesforce Health Cloud] serves the best solution to the healthcare industry.
  • [The] best part is that it is cloud-based technology where data and records will always be ready for use and there is minimal chance of losing the data.
  • It has reduced the efforts of the agents to book appointments or find the right practitioner which saves time [for] both the agent as well as the client.
  • There are automation tools [that] are used to send emails for reminders of policies.
  • Issues of people can be handled when a case is created and it gets assigned to a user or queue of users to get the issue resolved asap.
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