NextGen® Practice Management Solutions vs Practice Fusion

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Medical Practice Company, 51-200 employees

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The best scenario is a small non-profit clinic who needs a great EMR but cannot afford one like EPIC. I might also recommend this to colleagues who are starting a small business because I think PF would be a good, easy, and more affordable to get up and running. I think this EMR makes less sense in the setting of large academic institutions who need lots of easily manipulable data and a huge amount of support.

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Elias Nash

Medical Student

University of California, Davis - School of MedicineHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

Real-time eligibility verification

Claims management

Coding

Patient billing

Financial Reporting

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

Rule-based scheduling

Automated appointment reminders

Automated patient check-in

Multi-location support

Calendar interface

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

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

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

HIPAA compliance

Role-based permission levels

Data backups and redundancy

Local mode / networking failsafe

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

Task tracking

Specialty-specific workflows

Multi-office / multi-physician capabilities

Pros

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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Employee in Other

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Document storage- You can upload documents and attach them to specific patients. As well as flag documents that need to be signed, and assign them to specific doctors.
Charting- Very detailed integration for charting.
Reporting- We really enjoy the reports we can pull from within the software.

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Melanie Haas

Office Manager

Procurement LeadersHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees

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Cons

The software requires annoying/disruptive updates.
The software is housed on our own server. We have found that cloud-based solutions are much more convenient.
At times, the system is a bit "slow."
The canned reporting/BI tool is not as malleable as many of the other solutions we have used and/or trialed.
We were able to achieve cost-savings through some other systems.

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Medical Practice Company, 51-200 employees

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Have Physician Assistant as a provider status.
Make the notes section of each patients account displays towards the top of page and not the bottom.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Practice Fusion 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We always get a return call within the time stated. There are many available topics on the forum and it is often easy to find the issue you are seeking more information on.When we have tried the live chat feature we have been satisfied with the timeliness and response.

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Jessica Adams

CEO

Coastal Medical and Psychiatric ServicesMedical Practice, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

NextGen was more scattered and less streamlined than either Allscripts or EPIC

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Employee in Other

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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NextGen is hard to use as far as medical records. Practice Fusion is user friendly. There is a great knowledge base for questions asked. Practice Fusion takes all the guess work out of the day.

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Lynn Reeves Hill

Billing Manager, CPC

Medical OfficeMedical Practice, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Medical Practice Company, 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?

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Rating Summary

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

Practice Fusion

Likelihood to Recommend