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How does HearForm
Compare with other Hearing Software ( Audiology Software )?
Download our 2 Page Comparison Sheet
Edited by our friendly
competitors to ensure an accurate comparison
(Listed Alphabetically)
HearForm 10™ ($4,845)
http://www.hearform8.com
(One Time Fee - No Mandatory Support Fees)
To
help keep HearForm affordable, we offer the following payment method...
$1995
down and $190 per month for 15 months
Cumulative 5 year Cost: $4,845 Main Office Location (In other
words, no added charges)
Cumulative 10 year Cost: $4,845 Main Office Location
Please
see this link for a thorough explanation of our pricing…
www.hearform8.com/pricing.pdf
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Desktop
based for greater security and control - No Web based Data Breaches.
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Networking
version requires a licensed copy of FileMaker Pro 8.5 on each
computer networked. Can be connected to your staff in the next
office, city or state with various internet technologies (Terminal
Services, VPN pipelines, Log-Me-In, Gotomypc, etc...)
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FileMaker
Pro Server 8.04 required for those needing more than 5 concurrent
users.
$595.00 price of Server allows up to 250 simultaneous licensed
connections
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Additional
Office Locations are available at a discounted price. ($1,245.00 - We
will provide all training videos and supplies)
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QuickBooks
Integration Module is Free. (Does not include QuickBooks Pro Software)
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Electronic
billing through www.enshealth.com.
No extra software to purchase.
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Database
Transfer from previous database call for estimate. ($200-$500
typical)
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The
only software of the big 5 that is unlocked and completely open for your
customization.
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"Recommended by the top names and organizations in
our industry."
Hearing
Office Pro™
($50 - free lite version) http://www.hearingoffice.com/software.htm
"Hearing Office Software, produces software products
for the hearing care industry, Hearing Office Lite is the hearing care
industries first and only free office management program. The Hearing
Office Pro is the hearing care industries most affordable advanced
office management program."
The
Hearing Aid Dealer™ (unknown $) http://www.martinwcole.com/appinfo.htm
"It has evolved over the years, and is used in many
offices throughout Texas. It currently is not networked, as most
offices have not required it. But I am currently working on a new
release which will be networked, for large and very busy offices requiring
two or more front office PC's, or offices with more than one office
location - like one PC in the front for walk-in payments, battery
purchases, etc., and one in the back office for most other data entry.
Also, the network will make it easy for the owner to review data, if he
has a PC in his office."
Peak
Audiology Office Management Software New Zealand™ ($?) http://www.peak.co.nz/software/audio.htm
"Audiology Office was developed in conjunction with
New Zealand audiologists to streamline data entry and improve business
management. Audiology Office brings financial and clinical information
together in one system, and makes managing your business a lot easier.
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PC/MacHear™ ($2,500) http://www.zoo-ink.com/AGS/PCMH/Startup.html
"PC/MacHear™ is the finest Office Management
Software for the Hearing Aid Dispenser or Audiologist. How can this be?
We have been listening to our clients for over 12 years, and we respond
to their suggestions."
Note:
Last update 4-26-2001
ProHear™ - Starkey ($14,500 - $7,200
upgrade) www.starkey.com
Cumulative 5 year Cost: $14,500 per Physical Office
Location
Cumulative 10 year Cost: $14,500 per Physical Office
Location
"ProHear™ office management software is exclusively
designed to meet all the needs of the hearing care professional. It
provides fast and accurate methods for accessing customer information,
finances, analyzing trends, creating marketing strategies, and
scheduling."
Siemens Practice
Navigator™ ($4,995 Server & 2
workstations)
http://www.siemens-hearing.com/professional/softwareEquipment/office_management_software.aspx
Cumulative 5 year Cost: $4,9950 per Physical Office
Location
Cumulative 10 year Cost: $4,9950 per Physical Office Location
$200.00
per additional client
$1995.00 per extra office (Includes 2 workstations)
$1,000.00 additional to add a laptop computer installation
"Practice Navigator™ from Siemens gives you the
power to handle all of your office management tasks...all within a
user- friendly Windows®- based, NOAH™ - compatible environment. It
turns a desktop PC into your office staff, and it takes the time and
guesswork out of the nuts-and-bolts aspects of your practice."
S. O. S. http://www.set-inc.com/default.asp
($1995
1 to 2 computers -Support is Free 1st Year and about 10% Of Purchase
Price Thereafter ($211.40), $2995 3-4 computers - Support is Free 1st
Year and about 10% Of Purchase Price Thereafter ($311.40), $3995.00
5-10 computers - Support is Free 1st Year and about 10% Of Purchase
Price Thereafter ($411.40)
"SET, Inc. specializes in developing MS-Windows
based "Practice Management" software. SET offers products for
the Ophthalmic, Audiology and Pediatric communities. We extend our
basic general practice software for the Ophthalmic community with the ability
to track contact lens, spectacles and frames. Audiologists have the
ability to track Hearing Aids and Pediatricians can track immunization
history and vital signs."
SycleNet http://www.sycle.net (MONTHLY FEE)
Cumulative 5 year Cost: $8,940 per Physical Office
Location
Cumulative 10 year Cost: $17,880 per Physical Office
Location
From
their website..."The cost to use Sycle.net is $149.00 per month
[PER PHYSICAL LOCATION], plus the costs of any mail that you choose to
send using Sycle.net. [They] will bill your credit card each month; and
you will receive an itemized statement.
Most direct mail items range in price from $0.29 to $0.49 per item plus
postage, depending on whether you’d like to send color pieces or black
and white.
Sycle.net is a service that is charged on a monthly basis."
"Sycle.net is a web-based application that offers
real-time appointment management, patient management, patient retention,
direct mail management and patient database management. Sycle.net
creates management and marketing reports specifically tailored for
managing an audiological practice at the click of a mouse."
TIMS
for Audiology with Online Claims.™ ($2,640 1 to 2 User License;
$450 to $650 per additional User License - plus $50.00 per month
maintenance fee per location.)
Cumulative 5 year Cost: $5,640 per Physical Office
Location
Cumulative 10 year Cost: $8,640 per Physical Office
Location
Conversion
from old database $175.00 to $975.00
http://www.timsaudiology.com
"TIMS (Total Information Management) for Audiology
with OnLine Claims is an office management software application
developed by a team of professionals, specifically for the Hearing
Industry. TIMS for Audiology features include, QuickBooks integration
and consolidated patient demographics, patient history, hearing aid
history, battery club, NOAH3 or NOAH3 data, and electronic claims
processing, you will not have to re-enter data into multiple
applications, in one or multiple offices."
[It
is our understanding from several customers who have switched to
HearForm from TIMS/Online Claims that TIMS will disable your software,
making it unusable, if you do not choose to keep paying the quarterly
mandatory $150 fee. This appears to us that you never really own the
software, but rather must continue to pay into the future if you want
to keep using it. We can save most of your data from TIMS if you decide
to stop paying the quarterly fee and can no longer access your data.]
(This information about competitive software is accurate
to the best of our knowledge at the time it was written, 9/1/06. If any
corrections need to be made, we would be grateful if you would inform
us. We will make any corrections immediately)
See
additional information about other choices in audiology software at http://www.audiologysoftware.com/
At HearForm, we
believe that no one software product listed above is the best at
all the requirements of our industry.
We do believe,
however, that HearForm has found the best overall balance of features,
ease of use and price.
We
applaud our competition for their efforts to make our industry more
efficient and effective. We join with them in encouraging all
dispensers, audiologists and ENTs to modernize their practices with
Office Management Software.
Here
are some reasons that HearForm comes out on top after thoughtful
research into an appropriate software for our community...
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HearForm,
along with some of our competition, was written by professionals who
have walked in your shoes. Michael Huskey, BC HIS, developer of
HearForm has operated three offices in San Diego County and dispensed
over 6,000 hearing instruments over the past 25 years. He knows what
the needs of the everyday small to midsize office are. HearForm began
development 13 years ago to fill a need that you might be having
right now.
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HearForm's
price is a tremendous value at $4,995.00. The software will pay for itself
many times over in the first year. We do not charge extra fees to put
the software on your laptop (Siemens charges $1,000.00 extra per
laptop.) We do not charge extra licensing fees to network, beyond the
$150 fee per computer charged by FileMaker, Inc.
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We
do not charge a monthly maintenance fee. SOS charges 10% per year
maintenance fee and TIMS requires that purchasers of their product
pay a mandatory $50.00 per month fee per location. While it is a
small amount, it adds up to $1800.00 in three years. With Sycle, you
keep paying $1,800.00 per year, per location and it never stops. You
never really own your software, even after 10 years and $17,880 per
location.
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HearForm
is open, unlocked and accessible. We allow all manner of
customization. Many of our competitors have a one size fits all
solution. No one is more flexible. Not even close.
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HearForm
has made the decision to remain independent of Manufacturer
influence. We have an excellent relationship with sales reps and
employees from all manufacturers. Even our competitors reps, Starkey
and Siemens, have often referred accounts to us, because we increase
the number of hearing aid units purchased from those reps. We need
this autonomy to have an unfettered relationship with our users. We
have found that some dispensers and audiologists have issues with
some large manufacturers and do not want to be beholden to them. With
HearForm, you do not have to buy a number of instruments at single
unit cost. You simply invest once and start building your practice!
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HearForm
is listed as the best overall choice in Audiology and Dispenser
software on the AHAA website. HearForm was named, by the class offered
on this subject, the best overall choice for office management
software at this year's AAA convention in Salt Lake.
HearForm
was selected as the best office management software in the industry in
a software comparison study by Cara DeSmidt at Ball State University in
Muncie Indiana.
See the report "Audiologic Office Management Software"
It
would be nice to take the best out of each of our competitors and have
the ultimate OMS. We have actually tried to accomplish that goal. We
hope you'll agree that for the investment, you can't go wrong with
HearForm. We are working hard to be the New Standard in Hearing
HealthCare Office Management Software.
To
order your copy and start building your practice, call today. We'll
send the software overnight. If you need data imported from another
software package, we will instruct you what the procedure is.
See if your manufacturer's sales rep can co-op
all or part of the cost. Most manufacturers have offered this benefit
to many of our clients.
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