# ModMed Practice

> Native iPad app for medical specialties to automate patient visit documentation. (iPhone/iPad app by Modernizing Medicine, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/modmed-practice/id906481220 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Modernizing Medicine, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/387022758)
- Category: Medical
- Price: Free
- Rating: 2.80/5 from 338 App Store ratings · 80 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 383 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2014-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/modmed-practice/id906481220/reviews.md

## What is ModMed Practice?

Please note that EMA can only be used in conjunction with a subscription-based Web Application Service. Modernizing Medicine introduces the first native iPad application designed for medical surgical specialities — EMA by Modernizing medicine for iPad. Each relevant part of the visit can be recorded in real time by the patients in the waiting room and by the medical assistants, physician extenders, or physicians in the exam room. At the end of each patient visit, data is transmitted back to the server automating documentation without costing the doctor a second.

## Key features

- Real-time data recording
- Automated documentation
- Designed for medical surgical specialties
- iPad native application
- Data transmission to server

## What do users think of ModMed Practice?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fast documentation when properly configured
- 📱 iPad/mobile accessibility for clinical work
- 💰 Improved billing and revenue cycle management
- 👍 User-friendly for simple patient cases
- 📸 Built-in photo documentation capabilities
- ⚡ Reduces charting time compared to paper
- 🔄 Frequent updates and continuous improvements
- 🏥 Good integration between EHR and practice management
- 📋 Pre-populated templates reduce typing
- 🎯 Specialty-specific features for dermatology/ophthalmology

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- ⏱️ Excessive clicking and navigation steps
- 😤 Updates often decrease efficiency
- 🔧 Poor customization despite claims
- 💸 Expensive with frequent price increases
- 🎤 Non-functional voice recognition (Dragon)
- 📝 Generated notes use bland, impersonal language
- 🔍 Poor search functionality for diagnoses/codes
- ⚠️ Difficult to edit or amend notes after creation
- 🐢 Slow performance and lag issues
- 💳 Per-page fax charges (15 cents/page)
- 🚫 Limited interoperability with other systems
- 😞 Poor customer support responsiveness
- 🔐 Requires login every time app is minimized
- 🎨 Offensive patient diagram representations (white skin only)

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes regularly and unexpectedly
- Login failures after app minimization
- Screen freezes and lag during data entry
- Updates fail to load properly
- Error 1005 causing data loss
- Exam input data not matching output in notes
- Call button doesn't always appear or alert
- Sticky fields don't persist as intended
- Surgery templates disappear after creation
- Slow performance requiring app reinstallation
- Connection errors and server lag
- Overnight updates without advance notice
- IOP updates not syncing to eye log
- Duplicate plan names with conflicting information
- Notes disappearing with accidental clicks
- Biopsy results difficult to track and finalize
- Prescription SIG/DISP not flowing to med list
- Performance degradation over time requiring restart

**Most requested features**

- Voice recognition that actually works
- Improved search with Soundex capability for ICD-10 codes
- Better note editing and amendment functionality
- Reduced number of clicks for common tasks
- Location-based call button routing
- Sticky/persistent fields that carry forward properly
- Better biopsy and procedure results tracking
- Improved lab ordering interface
- Integration with drug formularies and pricing
- Better patient instruction printing with formatting options
- Automatic note routing to specific staff members
- Multi-patient e-prescription sending
- GoodRx integration for cash pricing
- Diverse patient diagram options (different skin tones)
- Removal of redundant/duplicate plan templates
- Better ROS (Review of Systems) and PMH workflow
- Audible alerts for call button notifications
- Stable performance without frequent updates
- Better photo management system
- Improved operative note templates for surgeons

## Recent user reviews (10 of 80)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/modmed-practice/id906481220/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Increases workload

*2026-08-20, version 7.14.9*

Adds hours to every day. Very cumbersome. Always software glitches that never get fixed. Way too time consuming.

### 1/5 — All around bad product

*2026-08-18, version 7.14.9*

Bad user interface and design, inefficient, no on-boarding, launch products like scribe when it is nowhere near ready with no ability to demo, not even close to being worth the cost.

### 1/5 — Don’t make the switch!

*2026-04-21, version 7.13.6*

ModMed has been an enormous disappointment as an electronic medical record, and switching from NextTech to ModMed was honestly one of the worst decisions I’ve made for my practice. I am counting down the time until my contract ends so I can switch back.

The system is frustratingly inefficient in ways that should not exist in a modern EMR. For example, every single time I see a patient who has had a cholecystectomy, I have to manually type in “cholecystectomy” and then sort through what feels like 30 different diagnosis options. If a patient tells me they had back surgery, it is the same story. I have to freehand it into “other” rather than simply selecting from a customizable list of commonly used diagnoses. That is absurd. This is not how an EMR should function in this day and age.

An EMR should improve workflow, not slow it down. It should be intuitive and customizable. I should be able to create and save a list of my most common diagnoses and past surgical history items instead of wasting time hunting and pecking through endless irrelevant choices like I am on some kind of scavenger hunt every time I see a patient.

The reporting is also terrible. Pulling useful data is far more difficult than it should be, and overall the platform feels clunky, rigid, and far less capable than NextTech. Nearly every part of the experience feels like a downgrade.

The photo management is especially pathetic, which is almost unbelievable for an EMR that markets itself specifically to plastic surgery practices. It is beyond lacking. Even the image quality is a problem. If you use the EMR itself to take patient photos, the images may be acceptable for basic chart documentation, but when you try to use them for your website, marketing, or any other professional purpose, the quality is grainy and unusable. That alone is a major failure for a plastic surgery-focused system.

On top of that, there are not even thumbnails in the mobile app. So if you are trying to find specific patient photos from your phone, you are left guessing which images you need to open because there is no visual preview. In a specialty where photography is central to patient care, outcomes tracking, and marketing, that is not a minor inconvenience. It is a glaring flaw.

In short, ModMed has been vastly inferior to NextTech in usability, efficiency, reporting, and photo management. I would not recommend it to any plastic surgery practice that values speed, customization, functionality, or high-quality image organization.

### 1/5 — Death by a thousand clicks

*2026-03-08, version 7.13.3*

The EMR is so segmented and awkward that a single note can require tens of clicks to complete it.

### 3/5 — Needs work

*2026-03-08, version 7.13.3*

Love that the more lets me access quicker and notes easier here than desktop. SUPER ANNOYED that upgrades seem to belabor the program rather than make improvements as the name would suggest. ERx for refill not intuitive, ros not intuitive, fax at end to many steps and not a big deal for me because it does discourages me to use it which I actually appreciate because it is JUST RUDE AND STINGY to charge per sheet 15 cents per page when it auto generates like 2 minus the note. Other program do not charge for this or it is monthly bundled without per charge extra. This last upgrade to desktop also added extra steps to scanning so will see what I have not even seen yet to annoy me. Patients will not complain about the app if they are under 40 because they either have no medical problems or are tech savvy enough to know to skip it which negates the whole ros and pmh thing and the older generation will complain profusely unless they are with a grandchild that just says none on all of it soooo. I know modded has the capacity and the money to make it better without raising price so please do so. Will I keep it after the 3 year contract … I would like to say yes but last couple upgrades not sure.

### 5/5 — Sally F

*2026-02-04, version 7.12.7*

I love this EHR so much. The built in content allows me to move so fast with my documentation, and I can just focus on medicine. Prior to having the system, we had all kinds of issues with our billing and denials and since moving to this, it’s been revolutionary. The staff was doing so much manually before and it’s night and day now. I can just be done and not have to spend hours every weekend catching up.

### 1/5 — Dragon

*2025-11-25, version 7.11.7*

1 1/2 years of being charged and cannot dragon voice recognition is still non functional.  All interns who come through this office cannot believe the program is not able to use voice recognition.  Costing use hours every day.  Criminal, costing us tons of

### 1/5 — Inefficient, time consuming, generates stupid language

*2025-09-21, version 7.11.3*

I’ve had the application for years.   What I like about it is that it facilitates my photo documentation using the iPad or iPhone.  However what I do not like is that the notes that the system generates uses bland, impersonal and borderline infantile language.  It would be embarrassing and disastrous if one had to defend medical decision making in a legal setting using their cookbook chart note.   Therefore I need to edit (rewrite) the history, impression and elements of the plan in order to maintain my professionalism.  I do my operative notes in (Microsoft) Word and copy and paste them into ModMed.  The suggested codes are usually accurate, but you always have to double check.  The company does not respond to suggestions on how to improve the software, so I have given up on asking.

### 2/5 — Useless Call Button

*2025-09-17, version 7.11.2*

Call button doesn’t always pop up. Also doesn’t make an alert sound. Call button should have an audible signal not just a visual signal. Also the ability to separate office locations for call button. I.e. if I’m in location an and location b sends a call button to a group only those in location b should get the alert not everyone in location a&b.

### 1/5 — Worse with every update

*2025-09-10, version 7.11.2*

Why is it that every update for “bug fixes and improvements” create more bugs and decrease efficiency? Can’t we leave it alone already- if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!

## Frequently asked questions about ModMed Practice

### What does ModMed Practice do?

ModMed Practice is a native iPad application designed for medical surgical specialties. It allows for real-time recording of patient visit data by patients, medical assistants, or physicians, automating documentation and transmitting it back to the server.

### How does this app automate documentation?

The app enables real-time data entry during patient visits. Once the visit is complete, the collected data is transmitted back to the server, automating the documentation process without requiring additional time from the doctor.

### Is ModMed Practice free to use?

No, EMA (the application) can only be used in conjunction with a subscription-based Web Application Service. Therefore, it is not free and requires an active subscription to the associated service.

### What devices is ModMed Practice compatible with?

The application is specifically designed as a native iPad application. Its functionality is optimized for the iPad platform to facilitate medical documentation.

### Who would benefit most from using this app?

Medical surgical specialists, their extenders, and medical assistants would benefit most. It's ideal for practices looking to streamline patient visit documentation and reduce administrative burden.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 7.14.9 — 2026-08-07

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 7.14.8 — 2026-07-24

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 7.14.7 — 2026-07-10

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 7.14.6 — 2026-06-26

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 7.14.5 — 2026-06-16

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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