Comparison
A spreadsheet will do almost anything. That is the problem.
Excel is free, flexible and familiar, which is why so many OPD clinics run on it. It fails at one thing: being the patient record. Here is where it breaks.
| spreadsheets | Clinicket | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup cost | Free, and running this afternoon. | A trial and a patient import. Usually a day, not an afternoon. |
| Flexibility | Total. Any column you want. | Opinionated. Structure is the point. |
| Two people at once | Conflicting edits, or one person locked out of the file. | Front desk and doctors on the same live queue and record. |
| Clinical record | A text column, at best. | Chief complaint, vitals, diagnosis and prescription for every visit. |
| Trust in the numbers | Only as good as the last manual entry. | Collections and visit counts come from the bills and visits themselves, not re-typed after them. |
Keep the spreadsheet for the things spreadsheets are good at. Stop asking it to be the patient register, the prescription pad and the bill book.
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