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NextGen vs Modernizing Medicine

They meet head-on in ophthalmology and optometry, and the gap is wider than either vendor's marketing suggests.

NextGen Healthcare logoNextGen Healthcare
Modernizing Medicine logoModernizing Medicine
User rating
4.0/5 · 1,281 reviews
4.4/5 · 366 reviews
Practice sizes served
2–5, 6–15, 16–50, 50+
2–5, 6–15, 16–50, 50+
Smallest practice served
2–5
2–5
System type
Cloud-Based, Specialty-Specific
Specialty-Specific, Cloud-Based
Specialties served
26 of 30
11 of 30
Published price
Quote only — not published
Quote only — not published
Share of identified providers
13.4% (n=5,002)
3.7% (n=1,398)

Where they stand in independent practice

Across the 37,310 providers whose EMR is identifiable in the federal registry, NextGen accounts for 13.4% and Modernizing Medicine for 3.7%.

NextGen
13.4%
Modernizing Medicine
3.7%

Where they meet, by specialty

Specialties in which at least one of the two is a registry top-three system. A dash means that vendor is not in the top three for that specialty — not that it is absent from the market.

Specialty
NextGen
Modernizing Medicine
n
Dermatology
4.5%
79.9%
663
Rheumatology
52.4%
347
Ophthalmology
50.3%
15.4%
592
Optometry
43.6%
17.4%
397
Oncology
31.4%
299
Behavioral Health
30.5%
656
Obstetrics & Gynecology
22.6%
2,175
Psychiatry
16.9%
622
Podiatry
13.9%
303
Allergy & Immunology
10.7%
75

Which one to shortlist

Choose NextGen Healthcare if…
  • Your specialty is one of 15 that NextGen Healthcare serves and Modernizing Medicine does not, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics.
Choose Modernizing Medicine if…
  • Users rate it higher — 4.4/5 across 366 reviews, against 4.0/5.

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Share figures are EMR Match Research analysis of the CMS NPPES Direct-endpoint data, July 2026 dissemination (n=37,310 identified providers) — the same source as our open data page, so the two can never disagree. This measures the EMR identified by the Direct-messaging endpoint a practice registered with the federal NPPES registry. Vendors that sell mainly to small independent practices are systematically under-represented, because small practices are the least likely to have registered an endpoint at all. Read it as a floor, not as installed base. Ratings and prices are as published by the review source and the vendor; sourcing on our methodology page.