BestNotes

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Cloud based electronic health records solution for clinics

About BestNotes

BestNotes is a cloud based HIPAA compliant customer relationship management and electronic health record database system designed specifically for the behavioral health and substance abuse industry. The primarily caters to small to midsized clinics and medical institutes. The solution helps to streamline practice workflow across clinics and other medical institutes.

BestNotes EHR module includes customizable templates and allows doctors and staff to maintain patient’s history, create and review treatment plans, build groups and share notes within the group members. The product can also setup one source of data entry to eliminate data duplication. The suite allows patients to build profiles and save their health information on the portal. Further, the medical professionals can directly communicate with the patients through the portal and book next appointment with them through integrated calendar feature. Through patient ledger feature, management can track patient charges, credit payment and create billing statements in the name of the patient. It also offers e-prescription feature through which prescriptions are directly sent to pharmacy with option for controlled substances.

BestNotes offer mobile based app for Android and iOS user which has features such as client management, task scheduling, digitally signing documents and share note. The solution comes with a flat monthly pricing model and does not require any upfront fees.


Key benefits of BestNotes

BestNotes is an HIPAA compliant customer relationship management (CRM) and electronic health record (EHR) database system designed for the Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment industry. BestNotes merges a CRM and EHR tools into a highly effective software that improves client interactions. BestNotes requires no upfront fees and offers users a month-to-month contract and free training/support.

BestNotes offers a fully integrated suite including scheduling, patient portal, practice management, documentation, medication administration, outcome tracking, e prescribing, lab tracking, and reporting features.

Automatic updates are applied to documentation to ensure audit and accreditation compliance. Point and click documentation allows users to quickly create group notes and treatment plans.

BestNotes tracks sales activity; follow-ups, referrals, and ongoing customer interactions. The software covers the full spectrum of client interactions starting with a secure and HIPAA- compliant patient portal that can be connected to a company’s website with a customized application to auto-populate into intake and clinical documentation. A smart calendar enables users to customize appointment types to include billing and necessary documents for service delivery. Calendar allows users to track no-shows, cancellations and attendance and send appointment reminders via text message.

Our audit and accreditation compliant documentation includes:

Pre-Screen, Intake Assessment, Nursing Assessment, History/Physical Assessment, BioPsychosocial Assessment, Psychiatric Evaluation, Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment, Master Treatment Plan, Treatment Plan Review, Discharge Summary, Medication Management, Vitals/Allergies, Group Notes, Progress Notes (Clinical, DAP, Medication and SOAP options), Case Management, Utilization Review, Consents

Tracking outcomes, now a Joint Commission requirement, is easy with BestNotes!. Send and receive nationally recognized questionnaires electronically and view client and organizational reporting.

Keep track of your ongoing charges and payments.with a customizable ledger! Create invoices, superbills and easily build HCFA-1500 or UB-04 claim forms to eliminate double data entry.

To help facilitate effective management of Prior Auths for customers, the BestNotes Prior Authorizations module has been designed to allow staff to:
Input Authorization information for patients prior to services being rendered
Create Authorization templates in an effort to streamline data entry and help prevent input errors
Track and monitor usage of services rendered against a patient's Authorizations
With our eMAR, users can group clients together for a customizable med-pass time, prep medications and track inventory, see when a medication is taken or refused and capture employee and client signature, out-of-the-box reporting for easy quality assurance.

BestNotes reporting features comes with 60+ reports out of the box. Users can also build custom reports.

Human resources can securely store employee files, capture signatures for reviews, disciplinary action, notifications or benefits, receive customizable job applications through your website and track ongoing education credits. Please contact us for a demonstration: [email protected]


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BestNotes Software - Set and track daily, weekly and monthly activity schedules through BestNotes’s mobile app
BestNotes Software - Import patient record and data form other EHR services to BestNotes with application import feature
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BestNotes Software - Set appointment and add members to the meeting within the calendar feature in BestNotes

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Dominic
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great product!

Reviewed on 02/06/2018

Pros

Best product on the market! Too many other ehrs are way too expensive for what they feature! Love bestnotes!

Cons

I cant think of anything negative to say, i widh we wouldve went with bestnotes from the beginning! Thanks BN!

John
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  • Industry: Alternative Medicine
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

BestNotes and Ease of Use

Reviewed on 29/07/2024

All experiences have been positive and issues were quickly resolved

All experiences have been positive and issues were quickly resolved

Pros

The Help Team has made the experience one I will never forget, they have helped us catch up with other providers

Cons

The ease of reports, the ease of using audits

Michelle
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  • Industry: Mental Health Care
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

You Get What You Pay For

Reviewed on 05/06/2019

I really wanted to love BestNotes but I regretted my decision straight away. Having the trial was...

I really wanted to love BestNotes but I regretted my decision straight away. Having the trial was useless because the system is cumbersome but I thought it was just me. Thus stuck with in site of my concern, hoping things would get easier/better but that never happened. Lesson learned for selecting them based on a non-clinician referral who clearly didn't know any better.

BestNotes reps acknowledge that little has changed with the platform in the past 15 years (since its inception) and it shows. They insist a new product is underway although they have no information on when it will be released. Think this said to merely pacify customers. I assume they gain and keep some customers due to the low price but using the software is like stepping into a time warp. I'd rather pay more money for a modern, user friendly system that can be used across device and is truly web based rather than a low price for a grossly outdated system. This EHR needs a complete overall!

Pros

The price for this EHR is phenomenal and BestNotes has the potential to be great. I like that you can add your own customized forms. The scripted treatment plan goals are better than most as they are measurable (but BestNotes did take some short cuts by simply repeating the same goals over and over).

Cons

As many users have been indicating since 2016, BestNotes is looks like something from the 1900's. Thus the systems uses a lot of odd symbols from the 1990's (such as a floppy disk).There seems to be no consistency with font size across pages. Some of the templates have typos. Minor clients that require parental signature consent forms is ridiculously complicated. They systems uses a lot of their own made up acronyms that are confusing. Many of the videos/self help guides are outdated or otherwise irrelevant. It is clunky, grossly outdated, has an ugly interface, and is not intuitive. This system is not web based, you have to download the software application on your computer, the client portal is practically useless since clients cant self schedule or pay a bill there, and have to contract with a third party for billing thereby increasing your costs. Sadly, the staff are nice enough but can be a bit condescending if you cant quickly make sense out of the madness that is BestNotes that they have normalized.

Response from BestNotes

Thanks for your feedback Michelle. I'm sorry you had such a painful experience. Respectfully, there are a few points that I would like to clarify. First, you mentioned that documentation can be confusing and clunky. It's true that BestNotes is customizable to a fault and we've taken some significant steps to make things easier. We hired a clinical director and after 3 years of Research/Development, we've released an entire set of behavioral health and addiction treatment focused documentation (from Admission to Discharge) that considers Joint Commission, CARF, Payer and common State/County regulations. The best part is that we keep this documentation updated for you. As regulations change, so does your documentation one less thing to worry about!
Unfortunately, Capterra only have gives us 1000 characters to reply to your feedback. Quickly, BestNotes is entirely web-based, includes a lot of internal billing tools and we haven't stopped developing our current version.

Jeremy
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  • Industry: Mental Health Care
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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Operations

Reviewed on 09/10/2024

It is the easiest EMR that I have used I have used several different ones, and this has been the...

It is the easiest EMR that I have used I have used several different ones, and this has been the easiest.

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Easy to use and customer service is always amazing.

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No complaints I was sitting here, trying to figure out what I could put and can’t come up with anything.

Sue
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  • Industry: Civic & Social Organization
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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BestNotes at a small agency

Reviewed on 14/10/2023

Give your clinical and support staff enough time and training to get used to the transition to the...

Give your clinical and support staff enough time and training to get used to the transition to the EHR. Make sure you have a couple of power users on the team to assist others, and set very clear expectations in advance on how your team is to use the product, especially with the treatment planning and calendar features. I suggest having a learning community rather than simply trainings because staff got overwhelmed and didn’t recall what was learned.

Pros

We were able to get through a CARF survey with not a lot of difficulty. The product made it easy for the consultant and auditor to evaluate the charts. It also makes it simpler to set and track charting metrics for the clinicians.

Cons

You will pay extra for using features you need like Outcome measures and telehealth. It would be helpful to be able select a date range in a chart for the purposes of releasing records.

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BestNotes FAQs

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BestNotes offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: USD 57.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Unlimited training and support and month-to-month contract. $57 per user/month for first 10 users, $22.50 per user/month for users 11-100 and $11.50 per user/month for users 101+. Visit our pricing page on our website to learn more.

BestNotes has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

BestNotes supports the following languages:

English

BestNotes supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

BestNotes integrates with the following applications:

ALERE, Dominion, EZClaim, EZClaimPay, Known Factors, Millennium

BestNotes offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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