CureMD Review - why 3.6 stars?

• Electronic Health Records: CureMD SMART Cloud enables a seamless exchange of information across multiple platforms, systems, and organizations. This feature drives greater collaboration, productivity, and patient safety.
• Practice Management: CureMD enables practices with the flexibility and outreach they need to thrive in today highly competitive practice of medicine. This feature enhances the quality of services to patients and increases the collections.
• Medical Billing: With this feature, end-users can boost their revenue and expedite collections with a team of CureMD working around the clock.
• Patient Portal: Health professionals can facilitate patients to request appointments securely, refills online, and receive test results as they become available. This feature helps patients utilize educational material and update their health status, history, demographics, and insurance information while subscribing to valuable electronic tools and services.
• iPhone EHR & Check-in KIOSK: CureMD offers groundbreaking research to life, Avalon enhancing productivity, service quality, and the bottom line practices.

• CureMD is designed very easy to navigate
• The software enables users to store years worth of disclosed confidential medical imaging reports, blood results, etc
• It is a moderately priced full-featured EMR and practice management software

• Users complain of poor Implementation and training
• The software takes a long time to load a single screen

• Functionality: CureMD SMART Cloud offers Electronic medical records, Practice Management, Enterprise Scheduling, Billing, Workflow Management, KPI Dashboards, eRx, e-Labs, Document Imaging, Clinical Knowledgebase, Clinical Alerts, Device Connectivity, Patient Education, Data Mining Reports, Patient Portal and Practice Website. Compared to its alternatives, NextGen Healthcare EHR offers Cloud-Based HER (available in CureMD), Patient Portal, Practice Management (available in CureMD), Revenue Cycle Management, Telehealth, and Virtual Visits. Kareo offers features like Care Delivery, Insurance Reimbursements, Patient Collections, Patient Engagement, etc. WebPT offers features like practice management (available in CureMD and NextGen Healthcare EHR), Compliance, Increased Reimbursements, Patient Retention & Activation, Efficiency & Productivity, and marketing.
• Customers/Industries: CureMD SMART Cloud has customers like Hickory County Health Department, Albermale Regional Health Services, Wilkes County Health Department, etc. NextGen Healthcare EHR renders its services to industries in medical specialties like Family Practice, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Podiatry, Primary Care, Urgent Care, etc. NextGen Healthcare EHR has customers like Surescripts, TSYS (formerly TransFirst), Transworld Systems, Inc, Red Spot Interactive, etc. Kareo renders its services to industries in medical specialties like Acupuncture, Allergy/Immunology, Anesthesiology, Bariatric Surgery, Billing Company, Cardiology, Chiropractic, Dentist, Dermatology, Diagnostic Radiology, Durable Medical Equipment, etc. WebPT renders its services to industries in medical specialties like Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, etc. Customers using WebPT are Spooner physical therapy, DeWitt physical therapy, A&M therapy, and Finish Line PT.
• Cost: According to ITQlick expert cost research, CureMD SMART Cloud cost-rated at 3.5/5. This means it is average-cost medical software. The rating system considers this software rated 1-2 as low-cost and 4-5 as high cost. CureMD pricing starts at $195.00 per feature per month. They do not have a free version. The license cost information for NextGen Healthcare EHR is unavailable. Kareo Billing pricing starts at $125.00 per month. Kareo does not offer a free version or a free trial. WebPT pricing starts at $59.00 per feature. WebPT does not offer a free version or a free trial.
• Cloud-based/On-premise: CureMD Smart cloud and all its alternatives are cloud-based.
• Popularity: CureMD is privately held with over 30,000 opted practices. WebPT is also privately held, with up to 90,785 members and 20,774 clinics using its solution package.
• Scalability: CureMD can accommodate small, medium, and large practices covering all specialties. NextGen Healthcare EHR can accommodate ambulatory care practices of all sizes and the communities its serves.
• Support: CureMD and WebPT offer support channels like Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, a Knowledge Base, Phone Support, and Chat. When compared to its alternatives, NextGen Healthcare EHR offers all support channels of CureMD and WebPT except for the knowledge base. NextGen provides a 24/7 live rep which is unavailable in CureMD. Kareo offers all support channels of CureMD and next WebPT except for a Knowledge Base and Chat.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 7 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for CureMD. You can also find here pricing information from CureMD's website.