Practice fusion Review - why 4.5 stars?

• Charting: This feature helps clinics save precious time with patient charts and templates adapted to their needs.
• E-Prescription: This Practice Fusion feature helps providers efficiently manage patient prescriptions and controlled drugs that might require authorization.
• Billing: The Practice Fusion flexible medical billing feature helps clinics get paid faster.
• Imaging and Lab Integrations: This feature helps clinics quickly submit lab and imaging orders and get results in their patient charts.

• The software is straightforward to use
• Practice Fusion has ready and adaptable templates that providers can use
• The EHR system has an excellent navigation and notification system

• It can be challenging to search patients by previous encounters in Practice Fusion
• Practice management module of the software does not offer the features of audit trail and electronic claims.

• Functionality: Practice Fusion, compared to its alternatives in functionality, has some basic features of an EHR like Lab & Imaging, EPCs, charting, billing, etc. However, it does not have features like insurances claims collection and patient scheduling, which are present in Kareo and eClinicalworks.
• Customers/Industries: Practice Fusion and its close alternatives target the clinical labs, pharmacies, imaging centers, health systems industry. In terms of customer base, Practice Fusion has about 30,000+ medical services using the software. In contrast, Kareo has more than 75,000 providers, SimplePractice has about 100,000+ practitioners, and eClinicalWorks has about 130,000+ physicians using the softwares, respectively.
• Cost: Practice Fusion has a license price starting from $149 per month, while eClinicalWorks has a license price starting from $449 per provider per month, WebPT has a license plan starting from $3 per day per provider, while SimplePractice has a license plan starting from $39 per month.
• Cloud-Based/On-Premise: Practice Fusion and all its competitors are cloud-based electronic health record systems.
• Scalability: Practice Fusion, Kareo, eClinicalWorks, WebPT, and SimplePractice are all designed to scale small clinics or solo providers to medium sized practices and then to large hospitals. These EHR systems can manage and accommodate a small and large number of patients and providers.
• Support: Practice Fusion and WebPT have various support channels like Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, and Chat support, but no 24/7 live rep. However, eClinicalWorks offers only 24/7 live Rep support but does not offer other support channels such as Practice Fusion and WebPT.

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 2.6 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for Practice fusion. You can also find here pricing information from Practice fusion's website.