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Tebra wants the doctor to go home.
The company joined the business of finding patients to the business of treating them. Its next test is whether software can give independent doctors their evenings back.
eMDs and the work after the visit
A medical visit ends. The paperwork keeps going. eMDs built its business around connecting the chart, the claim, and the people who have to make both work.
Meditab Software Inc. sweats the small stuff.
A lab note. A payment reminder. A specialist’s peculiar workflow. Meditab has spent decades building software around the details that keep a medical practice moving.
nference Wants Medicine to Read Its Own Notes
Hospitals have spent decades recording what happens to patients. nference is building the machinery to turn those scattered records into evidence - without asking hospitals to surrender control.
Truveta persuaded hospitals to share their memory
Hospitals record millions of lives and struggle to learn from them together. Truveta gave those hospitals a stake in the answer - and is now adding genetics to the medical record.
Kinnser Software Made the House Call Pay
A home visit is only the beginning. Kinnser built its business around the paperwork that follows - and the money that waits for it.
Healthie’s million-dollar lesson: build for the second visit
A costly rebuild taught Healthie to put the product before the sales pitch. Today, its software helps clinicians and digital health companies look after the patient who keeps coming back.
Office Ally and the business of getting paid
A medical visit ends. The paperwork keeps its appointment. Office Ally has built a business connecting the two, with no-subscription practice software and a clearinghouse that handles more than a billion transactions a year.
ClinicMind built the billing engine before the waiting room
A father-and-son software company began with the problem of getting doctors paid. Its answer grew into a connected system for the entire life of a patient visit.
TherapyNotes and the business of finishing the session
A psychologist and a software developer built a company around the work that follows therapy. Its most revealing feature may still be the humble to-do list.
Bizmatics and the art of losing fewer hours
A medical practice can outgrow its software long before it outgrows its waiting room. Bizmatics builds PrognoCIS around the specialty work, billing chores, and awkward handoffs that make that growth painful.
Aprima Medical and the art of fewer moving parts
A doctor wanted one database and no computer department. Aprima’s answer reveals why the least glamorous decision in medical software can matter more than the cleverest feature.
Ontada finds cancer evidence in the everyday
The oncology business inside McKesson turns routine patient records into research material. Its advantage begins where the treatment happens - and its hardest work begins where the tidy fields end.
Azalea Health and the hospital too small for its software
A rural hospital does not need a smaller ambition. It needs software that fits. Azalea Health has built a business around the distance between those two ideas.
Provation and the billion-dollar afterthought
A medical procedure ends. The paperwork has other plans. Provation built a business worth $1.425 billion to its buyer by making that second act less troublesome.
The Fax in the Machine: Evidently and the Medical Record Nobody Reads
Hospitals have digitized the chart without making it easy to understand. Evidently turns the forgotten fax, the outside record and the thousandth note into something a clinician can actually use.
The Little Bird That Tried to Give Doctors Their Eyes Back
Robin Healthcare put a camera, microphones and a team of human reviewers into the exam room. Its wager was that a doctor could look at a patient while someone else - part software, part scribe - handled the chart.
The AI That Found More Patients, But Not More Minutes
Mendel.ai made oncology trial screening more accurate in a randomized study. The surprise: the human-plus-AI team took about as long as the humans alone.
TPP wants your medical record to stop starting over
The company behind SystmOne has built a business around a simple promise: one patient, one record. Its most revealing results come from fixing the small administrative failures that make healthcare feel so disjointed.
RioMed and the patient record that stays
Fifteen years of clinical history can make software hard to replace. From Welsh rheumatology clinics to Guyana’s national EHR project, RioMed’s Cellma shows why the patient record is only the beginning.
TruBridge Found $4.3 Million Hiding in a Rural Hospital’s Paperwork
The former CPSI spent 45 years selling hospital software. Its more revealing act was learning to operate the business office - and getting paid when its clients do.
The Psychiatrist Who Refused to Make Mental Health Fit a Medical Checkbox
Valant spent two decades turning one psychiatrist’s frustration with generic software into an operating system for behavioral-health practices. Its advantage is specialization - and its history shows the cost of wandering away from it.
DSS Spent 35 Years Making the VA's Old Software Useful - Now It Wants to Be the Cloud Underneath It
The Florida health-IT firm built a business around a stubborn idea: hospitals do not always need a new record system - they need the one they have to stop fighting the people who use it.
RXNT Bet on Boring Healthcare Software - Then Built a $54 Million Business
A Palm Pilot, an SBA-backed loan and one ugly lesson from the IRS became a 26-year lesson in building durable SaaS: solve the dull workflow first, listen when customers ask for the next one, and keep the price visible.
The $800 Leak Hiding in the Operating Room - and the Software That Finally Found It
Surgical Information Systems followed surgery out of the hospital and into the outpatient center. Its software can expose the cost of every case - but one candid customer story shows why buying the dashboard is only the beginning.
Elation Health Bet the EHR Was the Problem. Now It Wants AI to Give Primary Care Its Evenings Back.
Two siblings built a chart for their father's clinic, then spent 16 years turning that family workaround into the operating system for independent primary care. The new wager is bigger: AI should finish the paperwork without hijacking the visit.
The Doctor Who Built a Research Machine Because He Never Had Time to Do Research
Dr Matt Wilson spent 14-hour shifts in emergency medicine with no time to eat, let alone run a study. So he built a platform that makes the research happen without the clinician lifting a finger - and pharma is paying to plug in.
Sixteen Software Companies, One Front Desk
PracticeTek has spent five years buying the software that runs America's dentists, orthodontists, chiropractors and dermatologists. Now more than 40,000 practices log in through its brands - and most patients never learn its name.
The Back Office Behind One in Five American Doctor Visits
athenahealth doesn't see patients. It runs the billing, charts, and reminders for the clinicians who do - and it's betting the whole network on AI.
Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.