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NextGen Office vs Healthie: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Features in Patient Management
34
Best performer
50
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Customer Database
  • Drag & Drop
30
50
  • Activity Tracking
  • Booking Management
  • Monitoring
User satisfaction
4.0
User reviews1,276
Ease of use
3.9
Functionality
3.9
Value for money
3.8
Customer support
4.0
4.2
User reviews81
Ease of use
4.1
Functionality
4.1
Value for money
4.1
Customer support
4.1
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An EHR/EMR solution designed for small practices with 1-10 physicians. NextGen EHR offers integrated workflow benefits from 50-plus years of clinical experience and more than 150,000 providers.

Healthie’s platform is designed to foster collaboration between clinicians and their clients, making it more than just a back-office tool – it’s a bridge for ongoing care.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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JACQUE P
medical assistant
3.0

Jacque P.: Hi, I'm Jacque, and I'm a medical billing manager for a private medical practice and I give NextGen Healthcare three out of five star rating. We use NextGen Healthcare to do billing for our private practice. With three practitioners, it makes it easy to bill in one set area for all three of them at the same time, to send out claims and get the return EOBs to post to the remits. What I like best about NextGen Healthcare is the fact that it's super simple to use. When training new workers, they catch on easily because it's a very simple format that is laid out perfectly for anybody to just data input and send your claims off to get a return profit. I would have to say what I like least about NextGen Healthcare is the fact that when we need help, it seems to be very hard to get ahold of somebody. We do have a rep, but they have several people that I need to contact and it seems like I'm just being pushed off from one person to the next and when I do speak to somebody about a specific issue, it seems like if they're not very knowledgeable in that field, even though they would be IT, or my rep to get prices quoted, or have a technological issue that needs solved, it just seems very hard to get any issues resolved whatsoever. As well as the price that we were first told, it seemed to change very much throughout our contract, and we just constantly seem to have issues, especially with communication with NextGen Healthcare, unfortunately,

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Dr. Jeanette D
President
5.0

Jeanette: My name is Jeanette. I'm the president of the Wellness Track LLC and I've been using Healthie and would rate it a 5. Prior to Healthie I was using Power Diary. I actually really like Power Diary too. However, it did not have the capability of tracking nutritional metrics or physiological metrics. And in my practice, I needed a EMR that would accommodate that with the client portal so that the clients could track their own metrics, body weight, body fat, height, and their nutrition. Power Diary did not do that, and Healthie fulfilled that need. I chose Healthie because it is an all-in-one platform management system. It allows me to utilize it as a EMR system for electronic medical records. I'm a doctor of physical therapy, personal trainer, and I needed to have a variety of options with my medical documentation. So I needed SOAP notes, I needed to do assessments and Healthie accomplishes that. It also allows me to customize my forms. It gives some templates that I can use for ideas. I can expand on those templates or I can create my forms and assessments from scratch myself. It's a very easy system, kind of a drop-and-drag type system. So that is very user-friendly, so I appreciate that. The other thing is that I can set up packages for my clients and I can bundle their services so that they can buy at a recurring rate for, what I do is three months, six months, and 12 months packages. So it just sets all the billing up automatically for me once I click a few options. It also allows me to do one-on-one appointments or one-time appointments. Clients can schedule their appointments online. And that's really important for me, because if I'm with clients I don't want to miss a call and then miss a person scheduling or a new client seeking services. So Healthie does scheduling, it does SOAP notes or electronic medical records. It does billing, it does packaging. And it really checks a lot of the boxes for me. In addition, it allows me to create programs for clients that are kind of do-it-yourself type programs so people can purchase a program and then I can check in on them through in-app messaging. It allows me to have some freedom because I don't always have to set appointments with clients, but it can encourage them through the messaging system. In addition, Healthie tracks metrics, which is huge. So if I want a client to track their height and their weight and then if they're on a weight loss program and they want to track their metrics weekly for weight management, they can do that themselves. They can also put in all their food choices and clients are able to put in custom meals that they do. Or I can also give feedback into their eating plan. I can look at their macronutrients and be able to identify where they might need to make adjustments. So Healthie really is an all-in-one platform that checks off a lot of boxes for a functional medicine, physical therapy, and nutrition/personal training business I have. It was really easy to get started with Healthie. I was able to download my client list from my previous EMR and then I just asked customers support to help me with uploading it into the Healthie system, which they were able to do. And then the other thing that was really nice is there were plenty of video tutorials so that I could go through the tutorials as an onboarding process. In addition, customer service was very, very good at providing support and checking in with me and they monitored my progress. And even a few months later after I was using it, I think it was about five, six months after using it, they checked in and actually did a one-on-one call with me to find out what were the things that I didn't like about it, what were the things that I was going to offer as suggestions, and then what were the things that I really liked about it. So it was really nice to see a platform seeking my feedback on how to make their system better. But as far as getting started, it was very, very easy and I appreciated that because I was doing it myself. If you would consider Healthie as kind of an all-in-one system, I would highly recommend it. There are other systems out there, but if you are interested in recording metrics with your clients, doing in-app messaging with your clients without incurring text messaging fees, if you want to do HIPAA-compliant video calls with your clients, Healthie accomplishes all of those and more. They offer a client portal, which is free to clients. They're very reasonable with their pricing. They also have an easy onboarding with tutorials so that you can learn how to do it yourself. They have a very responsive customer service team. And anytime I've had a question, they've responded within 24 hours. And then depending on the level of the question I had, they either resolved the issue in 24 hours or up to 72 hours. So they've been very responsive in that manner. I believe they still have a free trial that you can try for 14 days and kind of play around with the system as well. And if you do need an extension on that, I know that sometimes they will extend that free trial because that was me. I was trying to compare multiple platforms and they did extend the free trial for me. So they're very easy to work with, they're very easy to onboard with. And if you have questions, they're more than happy to answer those for you. So as a person trying to get started and look, these are the things that you definitely want to find in a company because it just helps the onboarding process go a lot smoother and a lot easier.

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NextGen Office

Top Features
34/50
  • Activity Tracking
  • Admissions Management
  • Bed Management
  • Booking Management
  • Discharge Management
  • Document Templates
  • Mobile Alerts
  • Monitoring
  • Patient Flow Management
  • Patient Location Tracking
  • Patient Monitoring
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • SMS Messaging
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Appointment Management
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Calendar Management
  • Charting
  • Claims Management
  • Client Portal
  • Communication Management
  • Contact Database
  • Customer Database
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Payments
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • Historical Reporting
  • Invoice Management
  • Live Chat
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Location
  • Patient Intake
  • Patient Scheduling
  • Records Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Scheduling
  • Self Service Portal
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Task Scheduling
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Healthie

30/50
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NextGen Office
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Healthie
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
NextGen Office
  • By NextGen Healthcare
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1994
Healthie
  • By Healthie
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2016
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