Practice Fusion vs AdvancedMD
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Product Basics
Practice Fusion is an ambulatory solution used by smaller, specialized health clinics to handle a variety of tasks such as charting, scheduling, medication prescribing, labs and imaging, revenue management, and more.
It delivers care to over 5 million patients each month and enables medical practices to boost efficiency and overall revenue.
AdvancedMD is a cloud-based, mobile-forward suite designed primarily for medical practices and other health organizations, with enough variability to fit into most organization’s workflows seamlessly. A wide variety of healthcare facilities use it to manage appointments, view patient information, automate billing and manage finances, as well as chart patient health and administer telehealth care.
It can be tailored to individual practices, giving providers an easy-to-use interface and ensuring success. Organizations using it can increase their overall traffic and revenue without sacrificing the quality of care provided by keeping patients coming through the doors and quickly following up on scheduling tasks. It’s also compliant with an assortment of regulations.
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Product Insights
- More Accurate Treatment and Diagnosis: Get health analytics to help recognize patient patterns and recommend treatment leading to proper patient care. Documenting medical information electronically ensures less susceptibility to handwriting and legibility mistakes.
- Increased Productivity and Efficiency: Increase revenue without sacrificing quality care by using templates and automatic favorite lists to speed up patient visits.
- Patient Involvement: Engage patients throughout the treatment process by enabling them to view their medical history, exchange messages with physicians and create customized health plans online using the patient portal feature.
- Full Certification: Practice Fusion meets certification requirements like ICD-10 codes, meaningful use, ONC and HIPAA. It continuously monitors the medical industry for any changes and provides automatic updates.
- Risk-Free Implementation: Decide if the software is a good fit with a free trial. Implementation is quick, with minimal disruption. Users can elect to learn the solution themselves and can receive one-on-one EHR training to help customize the software.
- Risk-Free Implementation: Decide if the software is a good fit with a free trial. Implementation is quick, with minimal disruption. Users can elect to learn the solution themselves and can receive one-on-one EHR training to help customize the software.
- Synchronize Workflow: With integratable features and configurable templates, it helps optimize workflows by connecting an entire facility with multiple departments and other pharmacies and labs. Patient information is updated to the system in real time to provide physicians with all the information they need to properly treat a patient.
- Maximize Revenue: Optimizing a facility’s workflow enables users to treat more patients daily without sacrificing its quality, leading to an increase in revenue.
- Manage Reputation: Manage online surveys and patient feedback relating to a practice and doctors using AdvancedReputation. Reviews are both easy to fill out and easy for online searchers to see how many reviews users have as well as how well a practice ranks in comparison to other practices.
- Scalability: With numerous optional features and tools, it can be tailored to a variety of health specialties of all sizes based on each organization’s unique needs.
- Mobility: Applications for iPhone and iPad allow physicians to communicate with patients and provide care whenever and wherever.
- Patient Engagement: Patients can be much more involved throughout their entire healthcare process with the use of the patient portal, letting them go online to communicate with their physicians, send refill requests for medication, view lab results and more.
- Flexible Treatment Options: Telehealth, patient messaging and patient portals all give clinicians better ways to treat their patients, regardless of the patient’s location or accessibility.
- Charting: With efficient charting, speciality-specific templates and automatic favorite lists, physicians can search for diagnosis codes by keywords to track a patient’s health data over time and monitor treatment progress.
- Scheduling: Easy scheduling lets patients manage appointments online, including automatic reminders regarding upcoming visits and automated recurring appointments.
- E-Prescribing: Order and send prescriptions anywhere, manage medical orders and pharmacy communication electronically, and take care of refill requests for any recurring medications with a two-click prescription refill tool.
- Patient Portal: Patients can look at medical information and view lab results at any time. They can also access education materials as well as population health information to better understand their health and treatment.
- Billing and Payment: Patients can receive billing statements and update payment information, while physicians can create superbills by automatically pulling information from chart notes. It can also verify insurance providers and scrub claims of any errors before submission.
- Labs and Imaging: Integrate with hundreds of labs like LabCorp and Quest as well as imaging services like X-ray, CT scan and ultrasound.
- Practice Administration: Consolidate tasks and custom reports, as well as refer patients electronically with their complete medical record. Communicate using secure messages that fulfill meaningful use standards or use HIPAA compliant faxes to go paperless.
- Scheduling: Medical scheduling tools allow users to quickly view appointments and patient information by hovering their mouse over the calendar. Additionally, patient visits can be tracked, and recurring appointments can be set while automated patient reminders are sent out, reducing no-shows.
- Billing: In addition to collecting patient payments, it is able to verify insurance eligibility automatically while providing users with all the necessary medical billing information in one centralized location.
- Clearinghouse: Sweep claims of any coding errors to ensure an accurate claim submission. Any copays, deductibles and additional coverage can be automatically verified prior to a patient’s visit, while on-the-spot insurance checks are also efficient.
- Patient Portal: Patients can view lab results, pay bills, message their physicians and request office appointments online using its patient portal. Providers can use the portal to exchange messages with a patient, manage prescription renewal requests and send out alerts and notifications.
- E-Prescribing: Electronically prescribe medications — including controlled substances — quickly and easily. Connects facilities to a variety of pharmacies around the US, while users can request refills and access a patient’s medication history anywhere. It uses a combination of personal passphrases and secure tokens to complete DEA-required, two-factor authentication. The AdvancedEPCS system maintains a full DEA audit history.
- Telemedicine: Telemedicine features facilitate face-to-face conference conversations and secure transmissions of still images or high-resolution video conference screenshots, and stores them to patient files with HIPAA compliance. Schedule telemedicine appointments and view them in one dashboard calendar.
- Smart Dashboard: Automatically prioritize and manage frequent tasks using this role-based dashboard. In addition to health analytics, get alerted on any urgent issues, like abnormal lab results or pending prescriptions and drill down or up into tasks.
- Configurable Templates: It can be tailored to a variety of specialties, with note and sub-note templates designed by physicians to optimize workflow while fitting in with a facility’s pre-existing style.
- Physician-Oriented Dashboard: It enables physicians to view and schedule appointments, staff and patient messages, referral letters, test results and to-do lists in one location. The physician and their staff can respond to patient appointments or prescription renewal requests, reply to questions or send clinical reports. Its interoffice messaging center also allows physicians to send messages to the staff.
- Patient Communication Tools: Select which patients would receive either text or email by choosing from existing criteria or creating a new set. Segment patient lists and send specific messages to enhance patient engagement. It also supports sending sales promotions to patients.
- Patient Kiosk Mobile App: Complete intake and consent forms on an iPad. The information is automatically captured and passed to relevant staff to facilitate a faster check-in process for patients.
- Health Watcher: HealthWatcher offers auto-alerts and custom healthcare plans to enable patients to follow treatment plans. Its interoperable platform allows it to monitor and trend patient population health. It also allows building custom healthcare plans to manage specific conditions based on factors like age, sex, lab results and diagnosis.
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User Sentiment Summary
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Practice Fusion has a 'good' User Satisfaction Rating of 75% when considering 461 user reviews from 4 recognized software review sites.
AdvancedMD has a 'good' User Satisfaction Rating of 75% when considering 452 user reviews from 4 recognized software review sites.
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Synopsis of User Ratings and Reviews
With strong security for sensitive medical data, Practice Fusion provides peace of mind to clinics. Its easy navigation and accessibility also distinguish it for users. However, infrequent updates have resulted in outdated features, while a crowded UI and glitches slow users down. Additionally, customer support isn’t reliable. In conclusion, the product can be a good choice for smaller independent practices in the industry.
AdvancedMD is an intuitive cloud-based tool. While some users were happy with the system’s integration and customization capabilities, far more users were extremely dissatisfied with other aspects of the system. There were mixed reviews on its reporting capabilities. A significant number of reviewers felt that the sales representatives misled customers noting that they lost money after implementing AdvancedMD and commenting that many features lacked the functionality that they required. Though the add-ons allow users to customize the system, many users complained that the add-ons come at a steep price, making them prohibitive to many users. Users also complained that they were surprised by hidden fees after implementation and felt that customer service was rude and unwilling to help when they called for support. A small number of reviews also noted that upgrades to the system frequently caused downtime and reported discrepancies in their billing that affected customers. While many of the reviews were negative, AdvancedMD remains a popular EHR solution. Due to its high price and difficulty to learn, it is best suited to large practices with the budget for necessary add-ons and internal technical support that is available to help ensure everyone who needs to can use the system.
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