SMARTMD vs Logical Ink 8.4
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SMARTMD
This app provides HIPAA-compliant tools for medical professionals to document patient visits, dictate reports, and manage referrals. It integrates with existing EHR systems and offers offline functionality for documenting encounters, capturing charges, and recording quality measures while on the go.
- HIPAA-compliant documentation
- EHR schedule integration
- Medical transcription
- EHR scribing
- Cloud file sharing
- Referral management
- Offline functionality
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SMARTMD gives you access to a suite of secure, HIPAA compliant solutions for medical professionals. The SMARTMD App for iPhone and iPad integrates with the EHR and workstations you are currently using. It is the fastest, easiest way to document a patient visit, dictate a letter, or produce an IME report. Traveling to see patients in SNFs, ALFs, Hospice, or at home? Get signed consent forms, scan facesheets, capture charges, and record MIPS quality measures without ever opening your laptop. Best of all, our app continues working even when you’re offline. The mobile App is free and lets you get started with absolutely no setup fees or minimum charges. Record your encounters any way you please and let our professional staff take care of the rest with opt in services, including: • EHR Schedule integration – see your patients and schedules right from the app. Know how many patients are on the slate for tomorrow and where at a glance. • Medical transcription – professionally typed letters and reports you can be proud of, faxed directly to referring physicians and attorneys. Generated from your dictation, worksheet, or photo. • EHR scribing – your words entered directly into your EHR, so you don’t have to! • Cloud File Share – safely gather documents while traveling to see patients. HIPAA compliant and accessible to your biller, admins, and peers. • Referral management – make sure ever referral turns into a patient. Analyze your network to see who to thank for sending you patients, and sources of leakage which keep patients from showing up for appointments. Since 1999, SMARTMD has earned the trust of the respected doctors and medical professionals. The SMARTMD App is like having a trusted member of your staff with you throughout your busy day. In 2017, SMARTMD was named second in the United States for “Trust, Accountability, and Transparency,” by Black Book Research for Medical Transcription, Technology, and Services.
Logical Ink 8.4
This application enables healthcare organizations to digitize patient data and signatures, replacing paper forms. It streamlines workflows, reduces errors, and enhances patient safety through an intuitive mobile interface. Requires a licensed user account for access.
- Electronic signature capture
- Discrete data and photo capture
- Reduces errors and improves patient safety
- Streamlined registration workflow
- Bedside care mobility
- Drag-and-drop form design tool
- EMR/ECM integration
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Logical Ink® makes it easy for healthcare organizations to allow patients and caregivers to capture data and signatures electronically, eliminating the need for paper forms. Seamlessly compatible with any downstream system, Logical Ink helps improve documentation, decrease medical errors, and simplify processes. It leverages mobile devices, digital ink and a pen/touch-based interface to provide a simple and intuitive user experience that is as natural and unrestrictive as paper. You must be a licensed user of Logical Ink to use this app. Logical Ink customers enjoy the following benefits: • Intelligent and interactive forms for capturing electronic signature, discrete data and photos • Reduces errors and improves patient safety by eliminating paper forms and scanning • Increased staff and patient satisfaction • Reduces wait times in Registration with a more streamlined workflow • Enables mobility and bedside care • Easy-to-use, drag/drop design tool for enterprise forms management • Integrates with any EMR or ECM workflow for fewer clicks 8.4 Highlights: • Modified the Designer Test Window to allow users to simulate changing accounts while testing • Introduced the Slider control for Designer and all clients that captures variable input data • Disabled and hidden controls no longer show up on the Items Remaining list in all clients • Added the Data Export Name and Friendly Name control properties to aide in downstream data extraction processes • Enhanced form selection logic with the ability to check for completed forms in any packet • Updated messaging when trying to launch invalid URLs from event code • Added a new Text Balloon control for providing supplemental information on forms with floating callout windows • Introduced an Ink Changed event to the Image Annotation control that fires when a user adds or removes ink from the control • Improved JavaScript support in the Ink Annotation control for clearing images and strokes from the control programmatically • Added support for SSL-offloading in high-availability architectures • Enhanced API design, architecture, and testing for added product reliability • Updated the Delete Visit HL7 action to find record Account Number and MRN when multiple matches are found • Modified the LDAP user search methods to account for different Active Domain configurations • Provided printing functionality from Designer Test Window • Revised the iPad Client security token refresh workflows to be more efficient • Form designers can now export forms as JSON • Updated the OnBase form destination to conform with vendor product changes • Enhanced Hyperdrive integration server configuration settings • Added a custom tick mark dialog for editing Slider control tick marks and labels
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: SMARTMD at 266 against Logical Ink 8.4's 1. SMARTMD also leads on device support. Logical Ink 8.4's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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.
Logical Ink 8.4 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SMARTMD has 266 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | SMARTMD | Logical Ink 8.4 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (266 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 266 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SMARTMD Corp | Bottomline Technologies |
In-app purchases
SMARTMD
No in-app purchases
Logical Ink 8.4
No in-app purchases
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