NextGen Office

A Perfect NextGen Solution for Small Independent Practices

Comments: It is a great addition for our small independent polyclinic and we are quite happy with how it has increased our productivity.

Pros:

What is most prominent is a User friendly design focused on registering the patient and updating his status.Hassle free alert system with analytics designed for all types of procedures.Support for the program is strictly within the US and they offer hands on authentic support.

Cons:

It was overwhelming the redundant amount of features they have available which may take a while to sift through and fully adapt.It is not very customizable and felt a little flimsy in that department.

Ease of Use

Pros:

Nextgen is user friendly and easy to navigate. I have used other systems and this by far was the easiest to use.

Cons:

The review of systems that we ask questions are not very customizable.

Incompetence with revenue cycle team and poorly built EMR

Comments: Poor. Been with this EMR for over 5 years and it seems to get worse every year. When you point out problems they just refer you to a different "team" within nextgen and this process continues while mistakes continue to be made. Very poor communication.

Pros:

Its relatively cheap, however you get what you pay for...

Cons:

Recurrent multiple mistakes by billing side (revenue cycle), very poor communication. Multiple teams handle your account but none of these teams communicate with each other causing recurrent mistakes and constant oversight by the user

Product Review

Comments: It was not a bad experience but it was not very memorable

Pros:

Good program that is easy to use and simple

Cons:

The program did not offer many functions I needed

Next gen is a wonderful tool for the office and for customer service personnel to use.

Pros:

The real time updating is amazing a patient can call right away with questions and we can get the answers.

Cons:

I really do not have a negative. I enjo9y this product.

NextGen Review

Pros:

The ease of checking eligibility and benefits, although not all insurances that our doctors are in-network with are in NextGen but I think they can do better to add them in.

Cons:

I hated it at first since it was too old school for me. The visual appearance made it old school and kind of boring, but eventually, I got the hang of it. I also feel like its slower than the other EMRs out there.

The best tank, but cumbersome for smaller practices

Pros:

Comprehensive and able to personalize. Confidence in a well-backed company.

Cons:

Expensive to run and tailor make/ personalize.

An excellent EHR tool that makes patient management and care management very easy

Comments: Overall its a nice and easy to use tool. Support is great and very prompt.

Pros:

It has billing and has support for medicare and medicaid. It also has different templates for different conditions which makes management easier.

Cons:

The management pages are pretty cumbersome to setup. Once that is done its easy to use

Excellent for small to medium size systems

Pros:

Highly customisable options, standard EMR and practice management options. Provides a decent option.

Cons:

Convoluted method of customisation, when they demonstrate it to you, it appears to be much easier but you are responsible for doing all the work and setting up.

Really good health charting

Pros:

I liked that they helped me get my medical chart set up.

Cons:

Not one thing is a con about nextgen, i really like them.

One of the best EHR Vendors around

Comments: I have had a wonderful experience with this software and it's auxiliary products. Even when things don't go as expected their customer support has been on top of it.

Pros:

I like the immediate transition of the company since the new [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has taken over. Their commitment to customer success with new edge technologies has been a great shift and kept me as a customer.

Cons:

I dislike the fact that they don't have a bigger stack in the hospital industry of healthcare. I think this needs to change particularly with their api and interoperability stack.

help you

Pros:

easy to use , it helps alot , easy to search

Cons:

sometimes it was difficult to deal with slow customer service

NextGen

Pros:

It was easy to use and easy to learn and adapt

Cons:

I did not really dislike anything about it

nb review

Pros:

Offering a suite of features, including appointment scheduling, electronic health records (EHR), billing and revenue cycle management, reporting, and patient engagement tools. It is easy to use and can be customized to meet the unique needs of different medical practices.

Cons:

The length of time it takes to receive a response from a customer service representative

Product Review

Pros:

Professional tool for billing and medical scheduling and appointments

Cons:

I didn't come across any con for this soft ware

NextGen Office Software

Comments: NextGen Office Software: This could refer to the next generation of office productivity software, such as Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. These software suites could be expected to include new features like advanced artificial intelligence, virtual reality collaboration tools, and integrations with other emerging technologies.NextGen Office Design: This could refer to the next generation of office building and workspace design. This could include features like smart lighting and temperature controls, flexible and collaborative workspaces, and cutting-edge audiovisual systems.NextGen Office Operations: This could refer to the next generation of office management and operations. This could include the use of automation and artificial intelligence to streamline processes, virtual teams that span the globe, and new approaches to hiring, training, and managing employees.Overall, the concept of "NextGen Office" represents the ongoing evolution of the modern workplace as businesses adapt to changing technologies, societal trends, and workforce expectations.

Pros:

"NextGen Office" is a term that can refer to a variety of concepts related to the future of office technology, work environments, and business operations. Here are a few possible interpretations:

Cons:

There is nothing negativeو This could refer to the next generation of office productivity software, such as Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. These software suites could be expected to include new features like advanced artificial intelligence, virtual reality collaboration tools, and integrations with other emerging technologies.

Optimizing Your Practice Management with NextGen Office

Comments: The platform's ability to manage various aspects of my practice, including scheduling, billing, and patient records, has made my job much more manageable. Despite the software's complexity, the support team was responsive and helped me navigate through any issues that arose. If you have a larger practice, NextGen Office is worth considering for your practice management needs.

Pros:

I recently tried NextGen Office for my practice management needs, and the experience was impressive. The platform's extensive functionality allowed me to manage my practice's operations efficiently. The software's reporting tools also gave me insights that I found to be quite valuable.

Cons:

NextGen Office may not be suitable for smaller practices or solo practitioners. Some of the features may be overwhelming, and the learning curve can be steep. Additionally, the software may be too pricey for some smaller practices.

Difficult EMR to use, even more difficult to get rid of - Poor customer service, poor tech support

Comments: Do your research before purchasing this EMR, because once you sign up with them, it is very difficult to get rid of it. They make it very difficult to sever the ties with them, and costly to obtain your patients' records and will continue to charge you if you have authorized them to withdraw the monthly subscription from your credit card, which might be related to the lack of communication between their different departments, but nevertheless amounts to harassment and lots of time wasted disputing those withdrawals with your bank.
I also got charged twice in 1 month last year, and still waiting for a response from their accounting department to get a refund for the overcharge (despite multiple emails)
If you use their efax service, make sure you get a list of efaxes you have received to verify the overage fees they charge you (so far they have not sent me the list of efaxes and continue to charge me for overage each month despite the fact I have canceled my services)

Pros:

My biller felt the practice management/billing side of meditouch/NextGen office was about average but the issues with the EMR made this product impossible and ended up switching EMR

Cons:

I started my subscription with meditouch/Health fusion, later changed name to NextGen office. The software is a billing platform with an EMR tacked on to it. I had used various EMRs during residency and in a group practice and this is the absolute worst product, most rigid software with lots of clicks and not user-friendly. Just reviewing a lab result is a hassle, needing to go in and out of the chart note, with numerous clicks in between. On several occasions, I noticed Meditouch glitching and chart associated with the labs belonged to another patient, therefore had to double check all the time, an issue that I had never encountered with any other EMR (EPIC, Cerner ambulatory, Praxis, even NextGen Enterprise etc.) Once the sales-person had sold the subscription to me he would not return my phone calls, and customer service was practically non-existent. Eventually got assigned a new contact person who was a lot more responsive but unable to solve any of the product related, customer service related or billing related issues. Eventually, I switched EMR, and canceled my subscription with NextGen and received a confirmation that my services were discontinued, but their billing department continued to charge my credit card on file. Make sure not to sign any authorization for the billing department to charge your credit card. In order to export my patients' data to my new EMR, NextGen wanted $ 5000. My new EMR (Praxis) transferred the data for a fraction of the price.

IT Program/Project Manager

Comments: In 2006, a 3rd party integrator (no longer in business) sold NextGen to our organization and since this was their first time installing it, the installation and configuration was barely implemented. To mitigate, in 2011, additional Practice Management training from NextGen and EHR Training/template development resources from Ciscon were engaged to review billing processes and create clinical workflows. Thanks to NextGen/Ciscon, we were able to launch the EHR in 2013. Since then, they have helped us make significant improvements to the clinical workflow (customizing templates) and billing processing. In 2016, the NextGen reports allowed us to start receiving CMS Meaningful Use/ACI incentive funds.

Pros:

1. Highly configurable...an organization can develop/program/configure any template or drop-down list box to tailor it to their clinical staff! 2. Software includes everything a clinic/hospital needs...and with NextGen's MirthConnect product, any interface or integration to another system is possible and easy! Besides the EHR and Practice Management, NextGen provides a Patient Portal, ePrescribe capability, Rosetta and MirthConnect (allowing interfaces to any system like LabCorp, Quest, Immunization Registries.), and much more! 3. NextGen Support is awesome...and if there is a new staff member, just request Tier 2 or Tier 3 support techs so your challenges are addressed quickly by experts in every area of the product! 4. NextGen Training is helpful from knowledgeable and experienced staff who have worked in clinical and front office environments. For any upgrades or projects, or if you are brand new, leverage the advanced trainers for additional training for staff and learning how to utilize/configure the system by having them review your configuration. 5. NextGen Development and NextGen 3rd Party Integrators (like Ciscon) are amazing to work with...If you don't have time to develop templates or learn, contact them to obtain a quote. I have been most impressed with support team at Ciscon! They have been able to streamline Provider templates and save tons of clicks so the Providers just adore and appreciate the efforts! They were also able to train all the clinical staff on the new workflows.

Cons:

Like any EHR (vs a paper chart), there are lots of clicks for the clinical staff members. In addition, the graphical user interface was so new to staff, this caused delays in the encounters. (To mitigate, we spent time, money, and effort on training users as well as building customized templates...This was worth every penny!)

Great potential, but needs some improvement!

Pros:

They are improving the product consistently. There have been two product updates since we started with them in March. Customer service has improved greatly as well. 99% of the time someone who picks up the phone and helps you with your problems. They have daily webinars that are free of a particular topic, so you can log in, ask questions, get help, and then log off. The product has a lot of great things such as ease of sending the charges from the docs to the billing department, seeing the exact statement that a patient received so you can talk to them more intelligently, getting lots of detail on the claims, rescheduling a patient from one day to the next, and blocking a portion of the schedule or opening a portion of the schedule.

Cons:

You can submit issues via email, but once they respond back, they close the case. Even if they didn't give you the answer you were looking for, you then have to email again and reference the case requiring you to print everything to keep track, because there is no way to follow the status of your case. If you submit feature requests, there is no way to know if they are working on it, aren't considering it, holding it for a future update, etc. There are specific reports that you can get, but if you need something that's not pre-built, there is very little way to obtain the info, if at all. I requested some kind of report writer. The reports all come out as an Excel spreadsheet which is good, because it allows you to manipulate and move around the data, but when you print it's very unwieldy and not pretty. They need to have a way to convert the report to a PDF format once you have it the way you like. Many of the reports don't offer options such as picking providers, locations, payers, so you have to manipulate the report after it opens to delete what you do not need, which is time consuming. The software is extremely dependent on location, which means everything you do has to be done by location creating a lot of work. If you have many offices, your docs do surgery in several locations and they are outpatient or inpatient. Changing or adding something has to be done many times, because you do it by location. It would be easier if there was a drop-down listing your locations and you only had to check the locations to which your additions or changes were applicable. Parts of the software feel as if they are too structured and everything has to fit into their predetermined way to do things. There is not enough flexibility and leeway to change portions that suit your practice. Vendor training was not great when we started and we paid for an outside vendor that works with Healthfusion to come on site and train us. I understand that the help and training portions have changed a bit since then and may be better. It has great potential if they would open up the software and be more flexible!

9 Years with NextGen

Comments: NextGen is a robust EHR that seems to offers solutions for all aspects of medical documentation including Practice Management for patient scheduling and billing. They are excellent with keeping up to date with the Regulatory, Prescribing, and Meaningful Use aspects that are required. There are calls and news letters to keep the clients informed of any upcoming changes or updates. No EHR is perfect. All have pro's and con's. We have had the opportunity to change software in the past but after consideration we decided to stay with NextGen for many reasons including cost and meeting our needs. I would recommend this software to others!

Pros:

We have been using this product for several years now. After looking at several other EMR's NextGen seems to be more user friendly than others I have seen. There is a lot of "clicking" and navigation to be done to complete a chart but it seems to be the same with all EHR's. NextGen offers recorded trainings, WebEx and onsite trainings to get the most out of the product. Support is quick to return calls when a ticket is opened for technical assistance or if you just need help with a workflow issue. We have integration/interfaces with several other products and all work really well together.

Cons:

Providers would like to see "more intuitive" templates. There are some templates that you cannot print from that would be of help, for instance the Vital Sign Graph.

Be prepared to train your employees forever!

Pros:

I like that there are two distinctive sides to this software: Practice Management and the EHR. This makes everything difficult though when learning it for the first time. It really breaks up what would be a fairly daunting task of switching to this system. I love that patients are able to register their information before their first visit-- this makes entering in new patients so much easier and faster.

Cons:

You can only do some things through Practice Management and many others through the EHR. When admitting new patients I have to toggle between the two and often have to have several browser tabs open while entering in patient data. It took seemingly forever to figure out what kind of profile employees should be on-- should we all be administrators or not? We found that some permissions were not granted if everyone was not made to be an administrator and vital abilities were lost to some employees. After learning this system for about a year we are still figuring out ways to work with this system a little better. It is not intuitive and it is difficult to learn. There has to be a better system out there when switching to Electronic Medical Records.

Don't waste your hardwork or time trying to use or implement.

Comments: Beyond terrible. Do not waste your time

Pros:

None. Beyond bad. The other programs are much better even with some frustation. This is easily the worst.

Cons:

1. Nextgen customer service for implentation is an absolute joke. I had spoken to so many different employees and none seem to know what they are doing. Common answer to questions and you are placed on hold while they ask someone else or transferred to the next employee. 2. Difficult to set up. Eclinicals, practice fusion, and athena got it right. Next gen is so wrong. If you are going to make it difficult to set up, maybe have employees trained how to use your program. 3. After about 3 years of using the program and trying to put up with the short comings, I had switched EMR programs. Boy, did I forget how much better my life is with out Nextgen. I can leave work with records completed. Other programs are just so much more efficient. 4. Just when you think you are out of the Nextgen trap. They will hold you records hostage. I was served a subpeona to request for a medical record, patient sueing an employer. I requested the record for 2 weeks and still have not received the record. I had missed the deadline, now probably in contempt of court. Please save your sanity and choose a different program.

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Pros:

easy to use , familiar interface , many feature are in

Cons:

this software are good to use for any body

NextGen has been easy to learn and has grown with the changes that occur in the medical field.

Comments: We transitioned from paper charts to this EHR. The process was challenging but nextgen navigated us through all of the ups and downs it takes to get through scanning paper records and training staff. We have improved all processes since the initial implementation. We have from scheduling on the front end to the billing and statements on the back end we improved those processes. We took our antiquated tickler tab system for prior authorization of our outpatient surgical procedures and moved it to an electronic way to tracked, authorize and then schedule procedures. This cut down on any procedure being schedules before it was approved. This help improve revenue in the long run. The benefits of patient portal are still being realized. Patients can communicate with office staff on their own schedule. After implementing online billing and payment options our payments on account have increased a great deal.

Pros:

The ability to track authorizations using tasking and worklog as patient portal and how the messages easily populate into the front desk inbox. Patient portal can easily route the messages appropriately. And last, the ability to customize it to the needs of our specific practices slash specialty!

Cons:

The ongoing upgrades although I know that is necessary for any EHR. Also there is no "reschedule" option for appointments. You can cancel then rebook and look at reschedule history but I personally like a reschedule button then follow the sequence needed.