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The Elation Health Alternative

Affordable, customizable, and easy to implement.

ZapEHR is an EHR development platform offering developers and builders all the APIs and infrastructure necessary to create next generation health tech.

zapEHR vs Elation

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PM Pediatric CarePacifyFlexTogetherAdvantia Health

Versus Today’s Monolithic EHR

Monolithic (Paleolithic) EHRs stifle innovation. They silo data. They kill integrations and interoperability. Clinicians and patients dislike them. And they are nearly impossible to improve. By design.

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ZapEHR vs Elation Health

Learn what sets ZapEHR apart from a traditional monolithic EHR:

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Customization
Elation Health offers some customizability such as APIs to connect third-party apps. However, their options are limited which can lead to inefficiencies and workflow challenges for practices of any scale.
ZapEHR is 100% headless.

It’s highly customizable structure allows practices to create workflows and templates that fit their specific needs. With its flexible API and developer tools, practices can easily build custom integrations and applications on top of their EHR system. This level of customization ensures that the system meets the unique needs of each practice and their patients.  A con of this approach is that the initial setup of applications on top of ZapEHR may take longer, because there is no “out of the box” user interface. That being said, ZapEHR provides a number of pre-built open source user interfaces that you can use for free, depending on what kind of application you are building.
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Scalability
Elation Health is designed to be scalable, with support for large healthcare organizations and networks. However, users have reported challenges in sending large volumes of orders and documents simultaneously.
ZapEHR is highly scalable and can easily accommodate the needs of practices of all sizes. Whether your practice has a few providers or several hundred, ZapEHR can scale to meet your needs. Additionally, through FHIR, ZapEHR seamlessly integrates with other third-party applications, making it easy to share information and streamline clinical workflows. 
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Data Migration
A feature of Elation Health is the Collaborative Health Record, which allows multiple providers to care for the same patient and share information. Although, users report that sharing information to Elation Health from another EHR system can be challenging. Issues with data migration and incomplete data transfers are commonplace.
The ZapEHR platform is constructed on FHIR, enabling it to seamlessly integrate with other third-party applications, making information sharing effortless and streamlining clinical workflows.
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Support
Elation Health offers implementation training and customer support. However, customer service can frequently be slow and it is often difficult to reach a live person to provide timely solutions to resolve problems.
The support team at ZapEHR is committed to assisting practices with any technical issues or queries they may have. From troubleshooting integrations to developing customized applications, ZapEHR's support team is available to help practices maximize the benefits of their EHR system.
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User Experience
Elation Health's platform is designed for the craft of primary care medicine. Users do report that the UI can appear cluttered and difficult to navigate due to multiple different fonts and colors.
Our user-friendly interface and customizable workflows make it easy for clinicians to navigate the system and find the information they need quickly. Additionally, ZapEHR's user interface is highly customizable, allowing users to create workflows and templates that fit their specific needs.
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Pricing
Elation Health offers a range of pricing plans based on the needs of the practice or enterprise. Their Direct Care plan starts at $275/mo billed annually or $349/mo billed monthly. The Insurance and Enterprise plans run higher rates. Additional costs include eFax services and 3rd party templating software which must be purchased separately.
Usage-based pricing. No up-front costs, no annual contracts, no per-provider or fixed monthly fees, no percent of revenue, and no hidden integration or API access charges. Pricing is simple and transparent, with a free tier.
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ZapEHR platform

It’s Your Data

Unsilo your data

ZapEHR provides simple APIs to read and write every attribute of every object in the model. You’ll always have the option to “build your own” or pipe your data out to any other system.

ONC Certification* as a Service

Always compliant

Health-tech software is highly regulated. Multiple standards bodies govern complicated, overlapping criteria. Legislative and statutory mandates change regularly. Payers, states, and exchanges have their own requirements. ZapEHR does the heavy lifting to ensure your application maintains compliance in a shifting landscape.

Interoperable

FHIR R4 and R5

The FHIR specification is a powerful interoperability tool helping disparate systems with proprietary data models talk to each other in a standardized format.

ZapEHR provides a complete FHIR R4b and R5 APIs as native data models.

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Transparent pricing

No “talk to our enterprise sales team and become another victim of our price discrimination!” model here.

ZapEHR charges published fees for compute, storage, and bandwidth, just like AWS and Azure.

You’ll pay only for what you use and you’ll know how much it costs in advance.

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As developers, we know you want to try it first to see if it’s the real deal. No artificial barriers. Grab your license key and go. Need help? We’re here when you need us.

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Our new behavioral health intake application, built on ZapEHR, allowed us to build a solution that is customized for our use including scheduling, insurance validation, and direct integration with our eClinicalWorks EHR.

Mordechai Raskas
Mordechai Raskas

Chief Medical Information Officer at PM Pediatric Care