Nextech vs NBIR Device Tracking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nextech
Access and manage patient information from your iPhone or iPad. View daily schedules, review charts, and document patient notes efficiently on the go. This mobile EHR enhances clinical workflow with anytime, anywhere access.
- Mobile EHR access
- View daily patient schedules
- Manage to-dos
- Review charts
- Access patient chart notes
- Document with confidence
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Nextech’s iOS application offers an unparalleled mobile EHR experience. Anytime, anywhere access from your iPhone or iPad device adds an additional layer of mobility and efficiency to your clinical routine. At a glance, users can view patients for the day, manage to-dos and go over charts in need of attention. Users can also thumb through patient chart notes and review important information in a convenient, easily consumable format. With Nextech’s iOS app, you can document with confidence, knowing it has the technological backbone of one of the most widely used specialty-specific EHRs in the industry.
NBIR Device Tracking
This HIPAA-compliant app facilitates device tracking for breast implant manufacturers, enabling physicians to meet federal requirements. It utilizes OCR technology to scan patient forms and device barcodes, securely submitting the data to the NBIR for post-market surveillance.
- HIPAA-compliant data capture
- Device tracking for breast implants
- OCR scanning of patient forms
- Barcode scanning for device data
- Secure data submission to NBIR
- Fulfills federal manufacturer requirements
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The NBIR Device Tracking App is a HIPAA-compliant app that can be used to quickly capture data that is required for the purposes of device tracking – a federally-mandated requirement of manufacturers of breast implants. This means physicians can simultaneously fulfill their device tracking requirements for Allergan, Mentor and Sientra by participating in the NBIR. The app uses OCR technology to scan and capture data from patient demographic forms and breast implant device barcodes. Captured data is securely packaged in a case report form and submitted to NBIR. The NBIR is a collaboration between The Plastic Surgery Foundation, the FDA, and breast implant device manufacturers for the purpose of strengthening the post-market surveillance infrastructure for current and future breast implant devices. For more information, please visit thepsf.org/NBIR
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NBIR Device Tracking at 3.4 against Nextech's 2.7. NBIR Device Tracking also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). Nextech's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (83 vs 10). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NBIR Device Tracking holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nextech has 83 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Nextech's written reviews are positive against 0% of NBIR Device Tracking's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Nextech ships an update every 5 weeks, NBIR Device Tracking every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nextech | NBIR Device Tracking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (83 ratings) | 3.4 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NexTech Systems, Inc. | American Society of Plastic Surgeons |
Customer experience
Nextech
NBIR Device Tracking
Bugs and requests
Nextech
Reported bugs
18 issues- Cannot scroll after acknowledgment
- Mac version logs out constantly
- Mobile version is limiting
- Cannot move tab on iPad
- Unable to see scanned documents on iPad
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- App won't open/enter credentials
- Photos upload with error
- Photos taken from phone/iPad do not save
- Unable to see patient photos
- System has problem after problem
- Cannot add new patient
- Cannot make an appointment
- Cannot chart or send RX via phone
- EMNs cannot be created/edited from app
- Screen stays blurred out after logging out
- Cannot view chart notes on iPhone
- Cannot find patient info on iPhone
- Schedule visualization unwieldy for multiple providers
Requested features
15 requests- Add ability to add/edit appointments
- Add Face ID/fingerprint login
- Improve mobile app functionality (iPhone/iPad)
- Add grammar check
- Allow writing notes on mobile
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- Improve photo management
- Add ability to add new patient
- Add ability to make appointments
- Improve schedule visualization
- Add financial information viewing
- Improve word processor
- Allow moving tabs on iPad
- Allow charting on mobile
- Bring medical history forward
- Alert patient to update medical history
NBIR Device Tracking
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nextech
No in-app purchases
NBIR Device Tracking
No in-app purchases
Questions
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