Acuity Scheduling Vs NextGen Healthcare (Jul 2020)
Shlomi Lavi / Jul 14, 2020
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NextGen Healthcare
Nextgen is a healthcare solution that offers electronic health records (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions suitable for medical and dental practices of all sizes.
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Acuity Scheduling Specifications
ITQlick Score: | 93/100 |
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ITQlick Rating: | (4.8/5) |
Pricing: | 2/10 - low cost |
Category: | Appointment Scheduling -> Acuity Scheduling |
Company: | Acuity Scheduling |
Pricing: | starts at $15 per month |
Typical customers: | Small businesses and start ups |
Platforms: | Desktop |
Links: | Acuity Scheduling review, Acuity Scheduling pricing, Acuity Scheduling alternatives |
NextGen Healthcare Specifications
ITQlick Score: | 99/100 |
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ITQlick Rating: | (4/5) |
Pricing: | 2/10 - low cost |
Category: | Medical -> NextGen Healthcare |
Company: | NextGen Healthcare |
Typical customers: | SMBs |
Platforms: | Desktop, Mobile, Cloud |
Links: | NextGen Healthcare review, NextGen Healthcare pricing, NextGen Healthcare alternatives |
Compare features
Acuity Scheduling: 0 Features
NextGen Healthcare: 2 Features
Bottom Line: Which is Better - Acuity Scheduling or NextGen Healthcare?
NextGen Healthcare is more expensive to implement (TCO - Total Cost of Ownership) than Acuity Scheduling, NextGen Healthcare is rated higher (99/100) than Acuity Scheduling (93/100). NextGen Healthcare offers more features (2) to their users than Acuity Scheduling (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is NextGen Healthcare!
Looking for the right Appointment Scheduling solution for your business? buyers like you are primarily concerned about the real total implementation cost (TCO), full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, pros and cons. In this article we compare between the 2 software products:
How Acuity Scheduling compares with NextGen Healthcare?
Acuity Scheduling: Acuity Scheduling was founded in 2006 by Gavin Zuchlinski to solve a problem close to home. His mom, Kim, struggled to balance a successful massage therapy business with the overhead involved in managing it. He knew there was a better way, and Acuity Scheduling sprouted. We love helping small businesses, like Kim's, to become more efficient and...
NextGen Healthcare: At NextGen Healthcare, we understand the evolving healthcare market and the importance of quality collaborative care and patient-centered. But there has been one constant through all the changes. It's been there for over 20 years. And that's NextGen Healthcare. And we'll be there for you as healthcare continues to evolve. Ready when you...
Who's more expensive? Acuity Scheduling or NextGen Healthcare?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Appointment Scheduling software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance & support and other related services. When calculating the TCO it's important to add all of these "hidden cost" as well. We prepared a TCO calculator for Acuity Scheduling and NextGen Healthcare.
Acuity Scheduling price starts at $15 per month , on a scale between 1 to 10 Acuity Scheduling is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Appointment Scheduling software. NextGen Healthcare accurate pricing info is available upon request (they don't share it publicly), however , on a scale between 1 to 10 Acuity Scheduling is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Appointment Scheduling software.
Bottom line: Acuity Scheduling cost is around the same cost of NextGen Healthcare.
Which software includes more/better features?
As with any business software solutions, it’s important to consider the features & functionality. The tool should support the processes, workflows, reports and needs that matter to your team. To help you evaluate this, we've compared Acuity Scheduling Vs. NextGen Healthcare based on some of the most important and required Appointment Scheduling features. Acuity Scheduling: We are still working to collect the list of features for Acuity Scheduling. NextGen Healthcare: Medical, Medical.
Target customer size
Customers of the software mainly include small and medium businesses hailing from a variety of different industries. and NextGen Healthcare's target customer size include: SMBs.
Author

Shlomi Lavi
Shlomi holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information System Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 15 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant, and implementation expert for small, medium and large size (global) companies.