Compare AdvancedScheduling and Lightning Bolt - Aug 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - AdvancedScheduling or Lightning Bolt?

AdvancedScheduling is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Lightning Bolt, and Lightning Bolt is rated higher (82/100) than AdvancedScheduling (62/100). Lightning Bolt offers users more features (2) than AdvancedScheduling (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Lightning Bolt!

Looking for the right Medical Scheduling solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

AdvancedMD Vs. Lightning Bolt Solutions, Inc.

AdvancedMD: AdvancedMD, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is part of a globally-trusted company with nearly $11B in revenues and approximately 620,000 clients, including more than 45,000 U.S.-based physicians. Our company is one of the world’s largest providers of cloud-based software, including an ONC-ATCB-CCHIT 2011-2012 Certified complete electronic health rec...

Lightning Bolt Solutions, Inc.: Lightning Bolt Solutions is the leading provider of medical staff scheduling software and solutions. Founded in 2002, our web-based physician scheduling software is used by thousands of physicians across a variety of specialties and practices.

Who is more expensive? AdvancedScheduling or Lightning Bolt?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Medical Scheduling software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for AdvancedScheduling and Lightning Bolt.

AdvancedScheduling price starts at $169 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 AdvancedScheduling is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Medical Scheduling software. Lightning Bolt price starts at $61 per month , When comparing Lightning Bolt to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Medical Scheduling software cost.

Bottom line: AdvancedScheduling cost is around the same cost of Lightning Bolt.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared AdvancedScheduling Vs. Lightning Bolt based on some of the most important and required Medical Scheduling features.

AdvancedScheduling: We are still working to collect the list of features for AdvancedScheduling.

Lightning Bolt: Scheduling, Medical.

Target customer size

The typical clients that use AdvancedScheduling software are the individuals, mainly healthcare professionals such as nurses, in small business and/or medium-sized clinics/businesses that have one to 100 employees and more than 100 to 1,000 employees respectively and are utilizing the services from industry sector of IT and other information related service, particularly with the electronic medical record/EMR and medical scheduling. The typical customers of lightning bolt are hospitals and health practices.