Ona Health Blog

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Ona vs Valant (2026): Which Fits a Psychiatry Practice?

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Best EHR for a Growing Practice: What Breaks as You Scale

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Ona vs TherapyNotes (2026): Which Fits Your Therapy Practice?

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Clearinghouse Inside the EHR vs a Standalone: What Changes

Should the clearinghouse sit inside your EHR or stay standalone? The trade-offs that decide it: who builds the claim, one queue, and payer enrollments.

Ona Health team
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Best AI Scribe for Behavioral Health (2026)

Which AI scribe handles therapy and psychiatry notes? JotPsych, Upheal, Mentalyc, Freed and Ona compared on note formats, session length and 2026 pricing.

Ona Health team
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Switching EHR in 2026: What Migration Actually Takes

How hard is it to switch EHR? What migrates, what never does, how long a cutover really takes, what it costs, and how five platforms handle the move.

Ona Health team
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Medical Front Desk and Patient Phone Statistics (2026)

How many patient calls go unanswered? The named, dated US data on front desk phone access, what practice leaders report in 2026, and what answering costs.

Ona Health team
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Behavioral Health EHR Pricing Compared (2026)

Published 2026 prices for behavioral health EHR software: Ona, TherapyNotes, SimplePractice, Ensora, ICANotes, and who publishes no figures at all.

Ona Health team
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PHQ-9 and GAD-7 Scoring Inside the Chart

PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scored inside the chart: canonical 0-27 and 0-21 scoring, five severity bands, a preconfigured item-9 flag, and what Ona does not do yet.

Ona Health team
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What an AI Receptionist Actually Costs Per Included Minute

What an AI receptionist really costs per included minute: verified 2026 vendor prices, Ona's $0.25 tiers, and the honest solo entry cost of $230.

Ona Health team
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How to Choose an EHR by Practice Size: Solo to Enterprise

What breaks at one clinician, at five, at twenty and across locations, where each EHR stops fitting, and what the software actually costs as you grow.

Ona Health team
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ERA and Payment Posting Explained: What the 835 Actually Does

What an ERA is, what the 835 file contains, what auto-posting can and cannot do, and where a person still has to reconcile before a claim is closed.

Ona Health team
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What Changes When the Clearing House Is Inside the EHR

What actually changes when the clearinghouse sits inside the EHR: who holds the contract, who starts payer enrollments, and where you work a rejection.

Ona Health team
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Best EHR for Psychiatry and Prescribing Practices (2026)

What a prescribing practice needs from an EHR: EPCS, identity proofing, refill queues, licensure checks, and published 2026 prices for one prescriber.

Ona Health team
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Ona vs ICANotes (2026): Template-Driven Notes or an AI Scribe?

Ona vs ICANotes compared for psychiatry and therapy practices: menu-driven notes or an ambient scribe, what each costs in 2026, and who should pick which.

Ona Health team