Plastic surgery is two businesses sharing a chart. One half is clinical: consents, operative notes, post-operative follow-up. The other half is retail: a consultation that ends in a quote, a deposit, a payment plan, and a patient who buys again. Systems built for general ambulatory medicine do the first half and stop dead at the second, and systems built for aesthetics sometimes do the reverse. The shortlist has to score both, which means the sheet has two blocks and both are must-haves.
Systems aesthetic and plastic surgery practices commonly shortlist, and what to make each show you
Not a ranking. Siftvo publishes no score of its own and no vendor pays to be named here. The order is alphabetical and the line after each name is the thing to make that vendor show you in a demo, scored on your own sheet.
- Modernizing Medicine: specialty-specific content across several specialties: ask what is standard for your procedure mix and what is configured
- Nextech: long-standing in aesthetics: ask to see a quote built, discounted with a reason, and reissued three months later
- PatientNow: aesthetics and med spa focus: photograph a case in the demo and then find and export it
- Symplast: mobile-first for aesthetic practices: score the consult-to-deposit flow on a phone, not a desktop
Photography is the requirement people underestimate
Standardised before-and-after capture, consistent lighting and angle prompts, side-by-side comparison in the room, and consent recorded per image for clinical use, for marketing and for neither. Ask the vendor to photograph a case in the demo and then show you the same case a year on. Practices switch systems over this more than over any clinical feature, because a photo library that cannot be searched or exported is the asset the practice cannot move.
The quote is a commercial document, not a note
A consultation that ends without a printed, dated quote the patient can take away is a consultation that converts worse. Score how the quote is built: whether procedures and their prices live in a maintained list, whether a package can be assembled and discounted with a reason recorded, whether the deposit is taken in the same flow, and whether the quote can be reissued when the patient comes back in three months with something changed.
Consents and the surgical calendar
Procedure-specific consent forms, signed on a device and filed against the case rather than scanned in later; a surgical calendar that knows theatre time, the anaesthetist and the pre-operative checklist; and a post-operative follow-up schedule that reminds the patient without somebody remembering to. These are the rows where a general ambulatory product usually scores one or zero, and where an aesthetics-specific one earns its narrower market.
Questions people ask about best plastic surgery emr
Is a plastic surgery EMR different from a med spa system?
They overlap and are not the same. A med spa system is strong on memberships, packages and retail; a surgical one is strong on consents, theatre scheduling and operative records. If you do both, weight both blocks and expect no product to score full marks.
What about photo storage and consent?
Ask where images are stored, how consent is recorded per use, and how you export the library. Get the export answer in writing before you sign, because it is the part of the record that is hardest to move later.
Do you rate aesthetics systems?
No. There is no ranking and no score of ours here. The comparison sheet scores the ones you are looking at against the weighting you set for your own mix of surgical and non-surgical work.