NextGen Healthcare EHR vs. Power Diary

For Primary Care and Behavioral Health Providers in the outpatient setting, NextGen Healthcare EHR is the leading solution because of its ease of use, setup, and workflow customization. It has additonal software like Dental and Population modules that are great tie ins to the EHR that make hand offs and other specialties workflows work seamlessly.

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Power Diary is a useful practice management software however, in my opinion, their support is absolutely awful, in my experience, they stop responding at times and fail to take appropriate steps for customers where there is an issue, choosing instead to take their own path forward, rather than be humble and listen to what their clients need. In my experience, they have even gone so far as to label constructive feedback as being an attack on their character. To me, not professional at all.

• 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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• Provides detailed instructions on how to use their services and also webinars on various topics to help grow your practice. They also check in via email and offer advice if you are having any issues with the system.
• Invoicing is simple and their system makes it easy to monitor payments received and outstanding.
• Writing client case notes and recording all administrative notes is a simple process.
• Client documents can be saved into client records, so everything is in one place and there is no need to keep hard copy records.
• They have templates (letters etc.) that can be accessed and used which saves time.
• They have a feature that assists with developing policies which I found helpful.
• They have a Facebook Page that allows Power Diary users to communicate, share tips etc.
• The system itself is user friendly and quite easy to navigate. If you need help, you can access the instructions provided by Power Diary.

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• NextGen completely misses the mark for ASCs, especially multispecialty.
• NextGen EHR constantly struggles with UDS reporting based on the EHR documentation.
• NextGen EHR struggles to compete because of automation. Most practices want to be dexterous, but it's not sustainable as we look to AI and automation.

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• In my experience, support attitude and attendance to detail
• In my experience, listening to Customers
• In my experience, doing what they tell the world they do for their customers.
• In my opinion, protecting client data better

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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I think Power Diary is relatively intuitive however of late, over development of certain features with insufficient user experience testing, and, in my opinion, no desire to resolve the concerns of customers shows me that Power Diary's business model is not customer centric, but self centric and most businesses with this ethos fail in time.

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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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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NextGen Healthcare EHR is much faster and more reliable than IMS. We no longer have constant issues with the system being down during clinic. It is also much easier to navigate and for new employees to learn. We did not have training options or knowledge base available in the previous system.

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This is the first time I have used this type of practice management system. I used the Specialist Homelessness Information Platform (SHIP) in my previous role, which made it easier for me to transition to using Power Diary.

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• electronic payment posting has saved us many man hours each and every month
• the ability to be able to code an encounter and upload to a clearing house in a matter of minutes has been a real time saver to our practice
• one task that has saved us much time without error is the check in check out process

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• I am still to work out if my ROI is going to be beneficial

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