Practice Partner by McKesson is a CCHIT and ONC-ATCB certified electronic health record (EHR), medical billing, and practice management software solution. The award-winning system helps healthcare providers to increase bottom-line productivity and automate daily workflows. The software adheres to the guidelines of HIPAA and can be deployed on-premise. With a growing network of over 25,000 users, the software brings together all elements necessary to run a modern healthcare practice. Key features include revenue cycle management, medical billing, appointment scheduling, modules for patient records, and claim scrubbing. Their practice management system manages and collects patient information that is needed for referral management, registration, and other patient communications. 

The platform's Bright Note Technology is a processing power that updates the medical records from a single point of entry while instantly populating the patient's medical data across the entire chart. It then automatically generates searchable patient data, resulting in greater efficiency, improved health outcomes, and enhanced clinical reporting. Practice Partner also includes features such as real-time eligibility checks and smart waiting lists. The Health IT solution supports integration with McKesson’s Practice Care to customize the software as per the needs of independent primary care providers.

Practice Partner helps healthcare practices in improving their revenues with proper claims coding and reduced labor costs. The documentation features of the software can adapt to the preferences of any medical practice and offer multiple data-entry options such as templates, speech recognition, digital pen, dictation, transcription, and web-based patient data entry. It can also simplify billing through less data entry work and automated payments. The user-friendly software provides quick and easy access to task lists, overdue orders, results, messages, and other relevant information. 

Price: The software’s pricing details are not available publicly. Users can contact the vendor for pricing details, and ask for a quote.

Free Trial: It does not offer a free trial. 

Support: The EHR platform offers support through a customer support portal.

USP: The software’s Bright Note Technology takes care of everything from problem lists and vital signs to medications and allergies.

Product Advantages: It offers easy scheduling, and there is a lot of flexibility with it. Customer service support is friendly and responsive. Their clinical features are great. Also, easy to type notes.

Product Limitations: The billing process requires too many steps. Users cannot run reports for Meaningful Use. The only way to customize reports is to work with SQL language. Creating statement files takes hours.