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NextGen® Practice Management Solutions vs. Valant EHR

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    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

    Valant EHR

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AValant, headquartered in Seattle, offers a Behavioral Health EHR and Practice Management Software. Valant is built exclusively for behavioral health. It is designed to increase the administrative and clinical efficiency of users' practices and includes built-in outcome measures, billing, reporting, telehealth, and clinical documentation tools, all tailored to the unique needs of mental health.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 Ratings
    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsValant EHR
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.9
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Valant
    Valant is a great space for front office to use in a patient/medical setting. I think it's best used on a small scale than a large scale. I have found it challenging at times with multiple locations and with about 3000 patients to keep track. Valant is excellent at record keeping, and communicating with the client via the patient portal. However, due to size and limited functionality - this would be hard to maintain for a larger scale.
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    Pros
    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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    Valant
    • User Friendly - Valant is user friendly and easy to navigate
    • Record Keeping - it allows you to upload docs and files within the patient charts to keep on file at all times.
    • Scheduling - Easy to view and make/edit appointments
    • Access Management - easy to set features viewable by specific people only such as physicians versus nonclinical
    • Reporting - lots of reporting that can be used for a multitude of things from payment billing to notes, etc
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    Cons
    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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    Valant
    • BILLING- This is all Caps - There can be room for improvement in terms of billing efficiency
    • Automatic Reporting - this would be beneficial to set up or have as a feature
    • Billing Dashboard - to view all accounts that have matured or are outstanding
    • Batch Posting - be it insurances or specific patients. Even Superbills cannot be "chosen" by specific people - it's all clients with balances that are active or no balances and all charges but nothing that says you want statements for say these 20 people.
    • Appointment Recording - this could be more efficient versus one by one processing.
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    Usability
    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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    Valant
    It's very user friendly. The workspace is big, easy to read and navigate. Also, the resource knowledge base is great for when you have questions and there are several videos and guides for how to use or do something. I have had less than a year of using it and adopted it pretty quickly within the first 3 months.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Valant
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Valant
    • Labor efficiency - this has been negative. Billing has had a lot of manual processes that unfortunately take up a lot of man hours - if this were improved, I could see a ROI that's positive
    • Valant has been great at certain features including the "waitlist" to capture patients and improve our chances for revenue being increased
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    ScreenShots

    Valant EHR Screenshots

    Screenshot of Includes Prospective Patient Management tools to access the integrated inquiry form, prospective patient database, and provider match algorithm.Screenshot of Billing reports enable the user to sort overdue, unbilled, and in-process claims.Screenshot of Valant's scheduler serves as a hub, allowing users to navigate to critical tasks with just the click of a mouse from any calendar appointment.Screenshot of Schedule clinical questionnaires and outcome measures - automatically sent prior to a client's upcoming appointments. Once the measure is complete, the auto-scored data and a clinically relevant narrative are automatically added into the clinical note.Screenshot of Prescribe and check patient medications in a snap with Valant's DrFirst integration.Screenshot of Valant's dashboard provides an at-a-glance view to keep the practice informed and organized. View tasks to be completed, take action on documents, appointment requests, and secure messages.