Edited by our friendly competitors to ensure an accurate comparison

(Listed Alphabetically)

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. ."

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...

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.

Yes. When you license our program, you install it on your computer, or on your network server, depending on your. needs. You retain full control over the software.

If the need ever arises to stop using HearForm, you can easily export all your data to an excel spreadsheet or other file format to quickly import all that data into a new system. We do not make it difficult for you if you ever want to leave. (Not that we think you will ever want to...)

QUICKBOOKS

HearForm will send Data from the invoice file to QuickBooks Pro 2003 or later. The following data is sent to QuickBooks, eliminating the need for double entry.

Additional information is available by calling us at 888-453-8806.

ELECTRONIC CLAIMS

Our competitors were faced with the same challenge that we faced. How do we allow our customers to process claims automatically and yet allow them flexibility and still keep our software affordable?

Most of our competitors chose WebMD as the clearinghouse of choice. That's not a bad choice, as WebMD is the most popular clearinghouse in the US. HearForm goes a step further, by allowing you to choose the clearinghouse of your choice. We have partnered with http://www.enshealth.com and http://www.ezclaim.com , HIPAA compliant solutions, for your Electronic Billing needs.

Because of Noah's present stability problems, we are waiting for Noah's next major revision before linking our system with theirs. Our competitors struggle with HIMSA issues and we do not want to subject our customers to those problems.

An Audiologist in Texas summed it up this way. (Actual comments)

"I went with **** (a competitor) because they advertise they are NOAH certified. I wanted to have all the software integrated in my office. Unfortunately, while **** was connected to NOAH, the connection caused **** to crash many times a day, costing me time and grief. I cannot run my practice like that.  I switched to HearForm, even though they are not integrated with Noah. I have not be disappointed. It only takes me a moment to enter the patient name, birth date and audiogram in NOAH and because they are separate, my office management software remains stable and reliable. I strongly believe that I have made the right decision to keep programming software and patient management software independent."

We look forward to HIMSA finishing their new platform, so that our industry can finally have the best of both worlds. Until they do, we will not compromise the integrity of our system, just to save double entry time. It can easily take more time recovering from crashes than is saved by being integrated with NOAH.

If you are able to export your patient demographics into a text or database file, we can include your patient data. We would charge an additional $200-$500 for this service depending on how difficult it is. In most cases we can import the majority of your data. We will let you know if you call us first. Some competitive software allows you to export your data easily. (HearForm exports with the click of one button.) It is best to call us with your particular situation. We have made many upgrades where ALL of the data was saved and transferred into the friendly format environment of HearForm.

Each system is different. It is common that the financial data from one database CANNOT be accurately converted into another database. While we can save the vast majority of your data (Names, addresses, telephone, manufacturer, make model, serial, warranty dates, etc..., it is likely that we cannot retrieve your account receivables. Customers typically print out their balance due invoices and take a short time to renter those into HearForm's invoicing system.

We can save chart notes from most all conversions.

Here are some of the databases that we have successfully converted to HearForm

It's actually kind of fun to do conversions for our customers, because as soon as you open up HearForm for the first time, you have hundreds (or thousands) of your own patients already in the new database. You can then report on the data using HearForm's included reports.

(If we convert your existing patient data, we will send you a signed 4 page HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, protecting the privacy and security of your patients. If you prefer not to send us your data, we can perform the conversion right on your computer. This way the data never leaves your office. We use www.logmein.com to access your desktop, with your permission)

Yes. We have created a fully functional demo so you can see all aspects of the program. You can do anything in the demo except create and delete records. Click Here to go to our download page.

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