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Happy Charting vs Unified Practice:
Which EMR is best? [2025]
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By Georgie Johnson ~ March 30, 2025
Why Acupuncturists choose Happy Charting over Unified Practice
Our mission at Happy Charting is to help acupuncturists run efficient practices by saving time, balancing their growing practice with our affordable software and focusing on their patient’s needs.
Large acupuncture or growth-focused practices commonly use Unified Practice as a one-stop shop. However, the reality is that it comes at a cost that sole practitioners, part-time, community or smaller practices cannot afford.
Happy Charting is incredibly easy to use and doesn’t have all the bells & whistles.
Reason #1: Simple
Happy Charting is light on the wallet, so you can spend your savings elsewhere.
Reason #2: Affordable
Happy Charting saves you 100s of hours every year, on charting.
Reason #3: Time-Saving
You own your own data. We’ll never abuse your patients’ health information.
Reason #4: Trustworthy
So, you’re looking for the right EMR or EHR charting software?
Every software is different and serves different needs for acupuncturists. The good news is there is something out there for everyone.
Happy Charting vs Unified Practice at a glance
Happy Charting’s speciality is looking after solo practitioners, community-acupuncture and small practices by offering affordable subscriptions that give you access to all the essentials.
Look no further if:
You’re a solo or small practice on a budget
You’d like to use Happy Charting alongside other software you’ve grown fond of
You want a software that has customisable charts with unlimited storage
You love getting quick, helpful and friendly customer support from a real person.
It’s hard owning a small business. Happy Charting can be learned and set up in a weekend.
Unified Practice is a fully integrated EHR software offering patient bookings, insurance verification, and invoicing.
The reasons acupuncturists opt for Unified Practice is:
You run a large practice with high patient volume
You don’t want to use other software alongside Unified Practice
Only a 7-day free trial to make up your mind
You want a software that has customisable forms, charts, bills, unlimited storage and creates SMS reminders, ePrescribing, integrated payments, insurance verification, inventory management and financial reports (and more).
While we can see the benefits of Unified Practice for large acupuncture clinics, what about the little guys?
Happy Charting values Acupuncturists
Health & wellness
No more repetitive typing or hand pain
Save your evenings
Don’t spend another late night charting
Life-work balance
Weekends at home, free from admin
Helping people
Have more time to heal more patients
No paper waste
Save the trees and save the planet
What sets Happy Charting apart:
Free set-up with Happy Charting
Happy Charting offers a free set-up service. Send us your paper forms, paper charts, favorite points and point combinations, and we’ll customise the forms, charts and pre-saved options for you.
Do you have existing paper charts and forms? All you have to do is take a picture of them and email it to us. We’ll save you hours by customising the software to your preferred working mode.
We know how busy things get when starting a new practice or switching to a software after using paper records. Happy Charting will do a first-time set-up for free.
Learning a new software can be hard, but we see the benefit for acupuncturists by helping ease the transition into using our Happy Charting software.
If you still have questions, we offer video calls free of charge to answer any questions, make changes to the templates or walk you through any of our features you want to use.
Send us your patient imports from Square or other schedulers, and we’ll upload them so you can get started straight away with your 100+ patients.
Strengths of Happy Charting and Unified Practice:
Onboarding
Take a deep dive into the many features of Unified Practice through its knowledge base. Equipped with articles, tutorial videos and customer support, you’ll find information on each aspect of their software so you can learn to navigate with ease.
Happy Charting takes a simpler route through our induction process. You’ll get the opportunity to have a one-on-one video call with a Happy Charting expert, where we will address your needs, concerns or questions, test your login details and give you an overview of the software.
In this call, you’ll get pro tips for setting up your account the right way so you can get the most out of your EMR software by learning the best practices. Along with this, you can access video tutorials that address the key features of our software and request a free set-up to get you started.
Training portals with tutorials and FAQs are crucial features of any software offering. While Happy Charting’s guide is more condensed than Unified Practice, both give you everything you need to manage each unique software confidently.
Happy Charting is a streamlined software, so our essential services are easy to pick up and require little to no training to get the job done.
User-friendly interface
While the interfaces significantly vary between Happy Charting and Unified Practice, customers enjoy using the interface that suits their needs.
Unified Practice offers a wider range of features that suit larger acupuncture practices with complex needs.
Happy Charting prides itself on the essentials, where all your charting needs are accessible on the dashboard without clicking through to separate tabs and windows. Highlight features include:
✔️See-it-all dashboard
✔️Customisable templates and charts
✔️Save favourite points
✔️Repeat treatment
For features and functionality, Happy Charting is rated 4.9 on Capterra and Unified Practice is rated 4.3.
Privacy and Security
Your privacy and security are crucial. If you’ve chosen Happy Charting or Unified Practice, we can confidently say you’ve made a wise choice by putting your patient’s privacy first.
✔️HIPAA compliant
✔️Data encryption
✔️Multi-factor authentication
✔️Secure data storage
✔️Full data backup
✔️Maintaining audit trails
When considering your next EMR software you must check the requirements of where you’re operating in the world. For example, if you are an acupuncturist based in the US, if you do not satisfy HIPAA you will be fined. Happy Charting ensures your privacy by conducting regular security training to protect patient data.
Go paperless with unlimited storage
Managing endless paper charts, patient medical records and notes can be tiresome and inefficient.
Happy Charting and Unified Practice offer unlimited storage within selected memberships.
This means you can save time manually flicking through patient records, save precious space within your clinic and most importantly, reduce your impact on the environment.
In addition, with our secure EMR software, you can file your patient records with the assurance that you’ll never lose a piece of paper again.
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