DrChrono

Last updated

DrChrono
Company type Private
Industry Healthcare
Founded2009;15 years ago (2009)
FoundersMichael Nusimow (CEO)
Daniel Kivatinos (COO)
Headquarters Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Hunt Valley, MD, United States
ProductsDrChrono
OnPatient
ServicesHealth records
Website www.drchrono.com

DrChrono is an American digital health technology company that provides software and billing services on a platform of web- and cloud-based apps for doctors and patients. The company makes electronic health records (EHR), practice management software, and medical billing software and provides medical revenue cycle management (RCM) services. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Contents

History

DrChrono was founded in New York City in 2009 by Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow. [1] [2] The company spent time in the Rose Tech Ventures incubator in New York City before moving to Silicon Valley to join Y Combinator. [2] [3] Nusimow, a computer engineer, created the program with the intention of streamlining patient-doctor visits. [4] In February 2011, DrChrono launched as an EHR app for the iPad, [5] [6] allowing doctors to complete tasks and access information without needing to use paper records. The information gathered and accessed through the app is also available from a web browser, iOS and Android devices, [1] [6] on Google Glass, and the Apple Watch. [7]

In June 2011, the company released the first tablet EHR system to be certified for meaningful use by Infogard Laboratories. [8] Doctors who used their EHR app to store and track patient data received up to $44,000 in incentives from federal subsidies. [9] In August 2012, DrChrono released OnPatient, an iOS and Android app to replace and expedite the traditional handwritten patient check-in process. It integrates with DrChrono's medical records interface. [10]

As of December 2018, over $3 billion in medical claims are processed annually through the platform, and 13.2 million patients are under the care of DrChrono providers. [11] [ relevant? – discuss ]

In January 2020, the company raised $20 million in a growth capital round from ORIX Growth Capital, a subsidiary of Orix USA, to invest further in the technology platform (EHR, medical billing, and API) and expand engineering, sales, and support functions. [12]

Products and software

DrChrono

DrChrono is an electronic health record (EHR) platform using open-source technologies like Linux, Python, MySQL, and Django, built on Apple's iOS. [13] It offers an API for developers to create physician and patient apps. [14] Doctors can manage appointments, records, prescriptions, and labs through customizable interfaces. Paid subscriptions include dictation and billing services. Patients access their records and appointments via iOS, watchOS, and Android apps. [1] The service integrates with Acronis for file exchange and Apollo-plus for revenue cycle management. DrChrono pioneered the first health record system app for Google Glass and integrated with Apple Watch. It was the initial EHR to achieve Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) certification and ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3, enabling data sharing with other certified EHRs. [15] [16]

OnPatient

OnPatient is a patient-focused app providing health management tools, allowing data import from Google Health. [7] Enables appointment reminders and secure communication with healthcare providers. [17] It is available on Android/iOS. [18]

Partnerships

Many developers have worked with DrChrono to bring include integrated applications to the platform, including CoverMyMeds, FIGmd, Ambra Health, Square, DemandForce, and NextPatient. [19]

In April 2016, DrChrono announced four medical application programming interface partners: Health Gorilla, Inuvio, Medisafe and Wink Health. The partnerships give the DrChrono platform access to US labs for laboratory and imaging orders, streamlined patient data collection, increased access for Medisafe physicians, and integration of sleep studies from a patient's home. [20]

In December 2017, the company partnered with FlexScanMD to help medical practices track inventory. [21] [22]

In 2019, DrChrono announced numerous partnerships, with companies including:

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Electronic health record</span> Digital collection of patient and population electronically stored health information

An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared through network-connected, enterprise-wide information systems or other information networks and exchanges. EHRs may include a range of data, including demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal statistics like age and weight, and billing information.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oracle Cerner</span> American healthcare company

Oracle Cerner or Oracle Health, formerly Cerner Corporation, is a US-based, multinational provider of health information technology (HIT) platforms and services. In February 2018, more than 27,000 customers globally utilised Cerner products. The company has more than 29,000 employees globally, with over 13,000 at its headquarters in North Kansas City, Missouri.

Google Health encompasses the health and wellbeing initiatives of Google, including Fitbit and a range of other features and integrations. Google Health started in 2008 as an attempt to create a repository of personal health information in order to connect doctors, hospitals and pharmacies directly. The Google Health project was discontinued in 2012, but the Google Health portfolio re-established in 2018 before being redescribed in 2022 as an "effort" rather than a distinct division.

Athenahealth is a private American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Practice Fusion</span> Electronic health record company

Practice Fusion is a web-based electronic health record (EHR) company based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded in 2005 by Ryan Howard and acquired by Allscripts in 2018.

Veradigm is a publicly traded American company that provides physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers with practice management and electronic health record (EHR) technology. Veradigm also provides products for patient engagement and care coordination, as well as financial and analytics technology. The company has more than 180,000 physician users and has products in 2,700 hospitals and 13,000 extended care organizations. The company formally changed its name from Allscripts to Veradigm in January 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zocdoc</span> Online medical care appointment booking service

Zocdoc is a New York City-based company offering an online service that allows people to find and book in-person or telemedicine appointments for medical or dental care. The platform also functions as a physician and dentist rating and comparison database. The service is free for patients, and doctors pay to advertise their appointment slots. Established in 2007, the private company had a $1.8 billion valuation by August 2015, the third-highest for a startup in New York at the time.

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is a set of rules and specifications for exchanging electronic health care data. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can be used in a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems. The goal of FHIR is to enable the seamless and secure exchange of health care information, so that patients can receive the best possible care. The standard describes data formats and elements and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Intrahealth Systems Limited</span> New Zealand software company

Intrahealth Systems Limited is a privately held company that develops, licences, supports and sells electronic health record software, medical practice management software, and related services. Founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Dr. Mark Matthews and Dr. Andrew Hall in 1997, they have since moved their headquarters to the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2005. Apart from the head office, Intrahealth maintains offices in Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney; and Toronto, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ScribeAmerica</span>

ScribeAmerica is a provider of medical scribes to hospitals and medical practices. Co-founders Michael Murphy and Luis Moreno met in 2002 and founded ScribeAmerica the following year in Lancaster, California. ScribeAmerica was headquartered in Aventura, Florida but recently moved its main offices to a larger facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

American Well Corporation, doing business as Amwell, is a telemedicine company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that connects patients with doctors over secure video. Amwell sells its platform as a subscription service to healthcare providers to put their medical professionals online and its proprietary software development kits, APIs, and system integrations enable clients to embed telehealth into existing workflows utilized by providers and patients.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Health (Apple)</span> Health informatics mobile app

Health is a health informatics mobile app, announced by Apple Inc. on June 2, 2014, at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The app is available on iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 8 or later, and on iPads running iPadOS 17 or later. The application holds health data such as blood pressure measurement and glucose levels, but also holds physical tracking data such as step counts. It can pull data from fitness trackers, smartwatches, smart scales, and other devices.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Google Fit</span> Health-tracking platform by Google

Google Fit is a health-tracking platform developed by Google for the Android operating system, Wear OS, and iOS. It is a single set of APIs that blends data from multiple apps and devices. Google Fit uses sensors in a user's activity tracker or mobile device to record physical fitness activities, which are measured against the user's fitness goals to provide a comprehensive view of their fitness.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sunrise Calendar</span>

Sunrise is a discontinued electronic calendar application for mobile and desktop. The service was launched in 2013 by designers Pierre Valade and Jeremy Le Van. In October 2015, Microsoft announced that they had merged the Sunrise Calendar team into the larger Microsoft Outlook team where they will work closely with the Microsoft Outlook Mobile service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greenway Health</span>

Greenway Health, LLC is a privately-owned vendor of health information technology (HIT) including integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and revenue cycle management solutions. Intergy, Greenway’s cloud-based EHR and practice management solution, serves ambulatory healthcare practices. The company has offices in Tampa, Florida; Carrollton, Georgia; and Bangalore, India.

Federal and state governments, insurance companies and other large medical institutions are heavily promoting the adoption of electronic health records. The US Congress included a formula of both incentives and penalties for EMR/EHR adoption versus continued use of paper records as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carbon Health</span> American healthcare company

Carbon Health is an American chain of primary healthcare and urgent care clinics that also provides telemedicine. It was founded in 2015 in San Francisco.

Tebra is an American company that develops healthcare software. As of 2023, the company supports more than 150,000 healthcare providers covering approximately 123 million patients in the United States. In 2022, the company reached unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion.

AdvancedMD is a cloud-based healthcare software-as-a-service platform for medical billing, healthcare management, and electronic health records (EHR). It is based in South Jordan, Utah and is owned by Global Payments.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wortham, Jenna (26 January 2012). "DrChrono Raises $2.8 Million to Digitize Doctor's Visits". Bits Blog. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 "New York-Born, Y Combinator-Bred Drchrono Raises $675K to Get Doctors on the iPad". Observer. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Across Time Zones with DrChrono's Daniel Kivatinos". Observer. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Electronic Medical Records: A Silicon Valley Gold Rush". Bloomberg.com. 23 September 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Leena Rao, "Drchrono Raises Funding To Bring Medical Records To The iPad," TechCrunch, 14 July 2011.
  6. 1 2 Jolie O'Dell, "The iPad will see you now: Meet Dr. Chrono," USA Today , 18 April 2011.
  7. 1 2 Timothy Hay, "DrChrono is Bringing Electronic Health Records to the Apple Watch," The Wall Street Journal , 13 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Husain, Iltifat (28 April 2010). "The First Electronic Health Record Customized for the iPad Has Arrived". iMedicalApps. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  9. ↑ Darrell Etherington, "Electronic medical records get a boost from iPad, federal funding," GigaOm, 28 July 2011.
  10. ↑ Leena Rao, "DrChrono Raises $2.8M From Yuri Milner And Others To Help Bring Medical Records To The iPad," TechCrunch, 26 January 2012.
  11. ↑ Pennic, Jasmine (20 December 2020). "DrChrono Raises $10M to Expand EHR Platform to Large-Scale Practices". HIT Consultant Media. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  12. ↑ Muoio, Dave (13 January 2020). "DrChrono closes $20M to grow its mobile-friendly EHR, practice management platform". mobihealthnews.com. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  13. ↑ Sarah Perez, "DrChrono Now Lets Doctors Accept Payments Via Square, View Real-Time Insurance Info On iPad," TechCrunch, 7 June 2012.
  14. ↑ Christina Farr, "DrChrono to developers: Use our API to help us fix health care," VentureBeat, 11 December 2013.
  15. ↑ "DrChrono gets Meaningful Use Stage 3 certification for its mobile-first EHR". mobilehealthnews.com. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  16. ↑ "drchrono Launches First Native iOS EHR App Certified for EPCS," hitconsultant.net, 30 September 2016.
  17. ↑ Ingrid Lunden, "As Google Health Flatlines, Drchrono Picks Up The Slack With Onpatient, A Health Database With A Quantified Self Twist," TechCrunch, 19 December 2012.
  18. ↑ "DrChrono Review". pcmag.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  19. ↑ "DrChrono Raises $10M to Expand EHR Platform to Large-Scale Practices". hitconsultant.net. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  20. ↑ Bill Siwicki, "DrChrono adds lab, imaging, medication adherence to EHR via APIs and partnerships," Healthcare IT News, 4 April 2016.
  21. ↑ Dietsche, Erin (14 December 2017). "FlexScanMD and drchrono team up to help medical practices track inventory". MedCity News. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  22. 1 2 "These companies are bringing 3D modeling to the EHR". medcitynews.com. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  23. ↑ "DrChrono partners with CoverMyMeds for prior authorization, price transparency". healthcareitnews.com. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  24. ↑ "Acronis selects DrChrono as its first electronic health record partner". dotmed.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  25. ↑ "Genomind to Further Integrate Genetic Tests into DrChrono EHR". genomeweb.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  26. ↑ "DrChrono Partners with Kapitus to Provide Financing Options for Physician Practices". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  27. ↑ "DrChrono EHR Adds AI-Powered Medical Notes Integration for Medical Practices". hitconsultant.com. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  28. ↑ "HealthFeed Integrates Patient Education Module With DrChrono EHR". hitconsultant.com. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  29. ↑ "Updox Integrates Collaboration Platform with DrChrono EHR to Help Practices Eliminate Staff Fatigue". hitconsultant.com. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  30. ↑ "DrChrono and OutcomeMD Announce Partnership Making it Easier to Track and Analyze Patient Outcome Data and Confounding Factors". globenewswire.com (Press release). 8 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.