What each one is for
Aesthetic Record is built around the clinical record. The chart, the consents, the before-and-after photos, the calendar and the patient record live in it, and Dana opens it in the treatment room. Its home page describes it as EMR and practice management software for med spas. NorthCore runs on it today in a working practice, reading visit dates for timing and writing nothing into a chart.
Boulevard is built around the front desk. Its home page calls it booking and scheduling software and a client experience platform for salons, spas and med spas. It holds the calendar, the client profiles, the service menu, memberships and the point of sale. Write down where the chart lives for your practice before the demo, because a chart is a clinical record with its own rules wherever it sits.
What each one holds, side by side
| The question | Aesthetic Record | Boulevard |
|---|---|---|
| What it holds | The chart, the consents, the photos, the calendar and the patient record | Calendar, client profiles, the service menu, memberships and the point of sale, all at the desk |
| Who it is built for | Med spas, in the vendor's own words | Salons, spas and med spas, in the vendor's own words |
| Where the calendar lives | Inside the EMR, linked to the chart | At the front desk, inside the booking platform |
| Where the checkout lives | Beside the record; confirm on the vendor's page which checkout and processor it includes, and the growth system reads revenue from wherever payment is taken | In the Boulevard point of sale, beside the memberships |
| What the growth system adds around it | Answering on your number, the comeback timed from the last treatment, segments from visit history, the numbers on one page | Answering on your number and booking into the Boulevard calendar, the comeback timed from last-visit dates, segments from the client list, revenue read from the checkout |
The questions that decide it for your practice
- Who charts, and where. If Dana charts every neurotoxin and filler visit with a photo and a signed consent, the chart is the center of the practice and the record system is built around it.
- What the front desk does all day. If Priya's day is bookings, rebookings, memberships and checkout, the booking platform is where they live, and the EMR is the room behind them.
- What the practice sells beside treatments. Retail, packages and memberships carry balances, and the platform that holds the checkout holds them; what the practice owes on each is for your accountant to confirm.
- How many providers and rooms. A calendar built around a provider's column and a calendar linked to a chart feel different at six providers, so demo each with your own schedule open.
- Where PHI will sit, who signs the Business Associate Agreement and who at the vendor can see it. Write the answer for each platform and confirm with counsel; this page gives no HIPAA verdict.
- What each costs at your provider and location count is on each vendor's pricing page, and nowhere on this page.
What a switch between them would involve
A move in either direction is two projects wearing one name. The chart is the legal record of care, and moving it or opening a new one has its own rules on retention, format and access. Confirm those with counsel and your medical director before a single chart is exported. Package balances, gift cards and memberships are reconciled to the dollar before the old checkout closes, and what the practice owes on them is confirmed with your accountant. The phone number stays yours. The calendar history behind it, every past visit and every no-show, is what the comeback runs on, so it is exported before anything is switched off.
Much of what an owner hopes a switch will fix sits outside both platforms. The call that rang out at two in the afternoon, the patients past their interval, the party list, the numbers in four places. NorthCore builds those around whichever record you keep and moves nothing.
How to run a two-week evaluation
- Day one: write the three jobs you expect the new platform to do that the current one leaves undone. Mark each as record, calendar, checkout or growth.
- Days two to four: have Dana chart one visit in each demo, and have Priya book, reschedule and check out the same patient, Jess, in each. Time both.
- Day five: export last-visit dates and open balances from what you run today. That export is what would move, and pulling it shows how clean it is.
- Week two: put the PHI questions above to each vendor in writing, read each pricing page with your provider count in hand, and ask for a reference practice at your size.
- Last day: score each platform on the three jobs from day one. Anything marked growth is a job for the system around the platform, whichever one you pick.
What to do next
NorthCore's Run the whole practice solution reads the numbers out of Aesthetic Record or Boulevard, builds the ninety-day plan and runs the answering, the comeback and the dashboard around it. Scoped in writing and covered by the promise on this site: results in 90 days, or we keep working until you have them.
