Headless EHR
Headless EHRs are API-centric products that provide patient data management and other provider workflow APIs without necessarily providing a traditional frontend interface. They enable other applications to interact with EHR functionalities through APIs, allowing for more flexible, customized user experiences and integration with various healthcare systems. This architecture supports innovation and adaptability in digital health applications, but can require provider organizations to invest more resources in building out their own EHR frontend. Some of the products in this category are entirely headless, while others offer both a full-featured API, as well as their own frontend.
Product Usage: Canvas is primarily used for clinical documentation and revenue cycle management, particularly through the creation of robust note templates.
Strengths: The product offers significant customizability in note templates, is straightforward to use, streamlines charting processes for all users and is ideally suited for smaller operations.
Weaknesses: The interface could use more display customization options, additional custom alert options necessary to notify part-time workers beyond basic notifications, and will eventually need a more comprehensive RCM system as organization grows.
Overall Judgement: Choosing Canvas was the right decision for the company, due to its superior customizability, seamless integrations, proactive bug resolution, and overall stability for their specific needs and company size.
Product Usage: Canvas is used for documenting patient assessments, managing demographics and scheduling, and facilitating inbound and outbound faxes.
Strengths: Canvas has excellent extensibility for integration with other systems and a user-friendly interface, and its automation features significantly improve documentation speed.
Weaknesses: Canvas’s management of images and documents could be improved, with clinical and administrative materials needing to be accessible in a single location.
Overall Judgment: The reviewer is highly satisfied with Canvas, praising its user-friendly interface, extendibility for integration, automation features, and responsive support, despite some room for improvement in image and document management.
Product Usage: Canvas is utilized across medical and therapy teams for tasks such as medical note documentation, lab result management, controlled substance prescription, and support for both individual and group therapy notes.
Strengths: Canvas provides a high degree of flexibility through its APIs and SDKs, allows customization for a user-centric experience, and provides exceptional support from their team.
Weaknesses: The platform currently lacks granularity in workflows and does not fit well with the group notes typically used in behavioral health, although the company is working on these issues.
Overall Judgment: Despite some issues, Canvas is a reliable, bug-free tool that delivers on most needs and allows in-house feature-building. It was the right choice due to its high degree of customization, exceptional support, and straightforward pricing model.
Product Usage: The reviewer uses Healthie for clinical documentation such as note-taking and care plans, with potential plans to use its billing features in the future.
Strengths: The reviewer appreciates Healthie’s customizability, semi-white label capabilities and its form functionality, with certain areas for improvement.
Weaknesses: Weak areas mentioned include care plan functionality, limited modification ability of certain form features, under-developed auditing visibility and occasional disruptive updates.
Overall Judgment: Despite some areas for improvement, the reviewer believes they made the right decision with Healthie, attributing this to the product’s customizability, stability, and strong customer support.
Product Usage: The product, Healthie, is used primarily for scheduling, allowing seamless management of availability, booking, rescheduling, and cancellation of appointments by both care team providers and members.
Strengths: Healthie’s API-first approach makes it easy to integrate with existing product stacks, it offers modular subscription options allowing for purchase of only required features, and it is reliable with no recorded downtime hindering patient-care interactions.
Weaknesses: Healthie’s native user interface design and availability of only Zoom for teleconferencing are not the best, but their existence did not prevent the swift launch of the product and eventual implementation of improvements.
Overall Judgment: Healthie has proved the right choice for handling scheduling functionalities, thanks to its seamless integration with existing infrastructure, customizability, reliability, pricing structure, and overall ease of use. It is recommended for businesses in need of similar solutions.
Product Usage: The product has been used as a platform to deliver wellness content to members and for scheduling integrations with their EHR.
Strengths: The product successfully delivers wellness content, allows sign-ups for classes, and integrates schedules to avoid double bookings.
Weaknesses: The platform has lackluster user experience, insufficient reporting capabilities, problematic login processes, unscheduled product upgrades, and a complex licensing structure.
Overall Judgment: Due to their shift towards becoming an EHR and lackluster user experience, the company has decided to transition away from this product.
Product Usage: Canvas’s EHR is used for scheduling patient appointments, logging activities such as phone calls, visits, changes to a patient’s profile, condition and history, and it is also used for telehealth appointments and claims generation and management.
Strengths: Canvas’s strengths lie in its flexibility and customization capabilities, its functionality that allows users to create automations based on actions or notes in a patient’s chart and its robust API documentation and integration features.
Weaknesses: Areas where Canvas falls short include the management and generation of claims, tracking patient risk adjustment and quality measures, and also navigating their backend data for reporting purposes; additionally, the system sometimes experiences bugs and freezes.
Overall Judgment: Despite some limitations and issues, Canvas is a generally stable Electronic Health Record system that provides a higher degree of customization and flexibility than other comparable systems, and it is well suited to those with technical know-how who are comfortable with configuring a system to suit their needs.
Product Usage: Canvas used for recording chart notes, storing lab information, prescribing medications, conducting lab orders when available, and executing billing tasks.
Strengths: The product offers a reliable platform with automation functionality, the ability to easily identify the correct pharmacies for medication orders, and a flexible tasking feature.
Weaknesses: There are limitations with the invoicing system, reporting capabilities, communication tools among providers, medication history tracking, and tasking functionality is still basic.
Overall Judgment: The reviewers are generally positive towards the product, praising its reliability, automations, and customizable tooling; despite recognizing improvements could be made in the billing, reporting, and task features.
Product Usage: Canvas is being used as the company’s electronic medical record for charts and billing, recent usage of its task management feature has been introduced, and scheduling feature is being considered.
Strengths: The interface is user-friendly, the task management feature is effective for managing workload and workflow, and the autosave feature is appreciated.
Weaknesses: The knowledge center is not as helpful as it could be, locating specific settings can be challenging for administrators, command-driven entries can slow down workflow for providers, and the limitation in dashboard field customizations obstructs quick information access.
Overall Judgment: Despite identified areas for improvement, majority feedback has been positive, particularly when considering a shift from their previous EMR system, Athena, and would recommend Canvas with noted considerations.
Product Usage: Canvas is primarily used for managing patients’ clinical charts, creating claims, and dealing with patients’ claims and profiles.
Strengths: Canvas offers more visibility and a clearer workflow when dealing with patients’ claims and profiles compared to previous product.
Weaknesses: Canvas has some issues with system setup, such as wrong population of multiple locations in script ordering and missing data fields when using the claim edit feature. However, these issues are believed to be due to user error and not Canvas itself.
Overall Judgment: Overall, the product is praised for its ease of use and customization options, with a recommendation from the review to take full advantage of its capabilities.
Product Usage: Canvas is used for charting, patient management, claims tracking, scheduling and sending reminders and integrates with telehealth through Doxy.me for video appointments.
Strengths: Canvas offers real-time access to data, flexible configurations, protocols for tracking patient needs, and a robust FHIR API which allows extensive customization and integration capabilities.
Weaknesses: Areas for improvement include high user interface sophistication, limited revenue cycle management functionality, and a more structured approach to tasking.
Overall Judgment: Canvas, described as the Salesforce of EMRs, is highly appreciated for its emphasis on allowing users to build their features and regular performance improvements, despite a few bug encounters.
Product Usage: Canvas is primarily used by the customer’s care coordination team, social workers, and nurses, as well as insurance navigation staff and genetic counselors for structured and unstructured documentation.
Strengths: Canvas’s strengths lie in its customization and flexibility, Canvas’s attentive responses to customer feedback, and impressive ongoing efforts to improve features and customer experience.
Weaknesses: Despite its strengths, Canvas has some limitations, such as its handling of reporting features, integration with Claim.MD, a not fully-featured scheduling and messaging platform, and a manual provider directory feature.
Overall Judgment: Overall, Canvas has been a good choice for the company, providing valuable features and demonstrating strong product growth over time.
Product Usage: This reviewer uses Canvas for managing detailed documentation and maintaining clinical records for patients in a virtual specialty clinic.
Strengths: Canvas’s simplicity, efficient clinical notes, and modern UI are highlighted strengths of the product.
Weaknesses: The reviewer pointed out the limited and unreliable API functionality and the product’s presumption of a standard clinical model as weaknesses.
Overall Judgment: Despite its limitations, the reviewer believes that Canvas may be a suitable tool for organizations with basic clinical documentation needs.
Product Usage: Healthie is mainly used as an EMR and practice management solution, including appointments scheduling, patient engagement, prescriptions ordering, and, previously, billing.
Strengths: Healthie is user-friendly, embeddable into the website, excels in multi-zone scheduling, and offers a flexible API for additional functionalities.
Weaknesses: Healthie falls short on automating certain tasks, has occasional billing issues, a limited task management tool, and requires patients to log into the app for video consultations.
Overall Judgment: Despite some shortcomings, Healthie is considered a valuable tool for its user-friendly interface, strong scheduling functionality, and overall practicality for a telehealth physician group. The company plans to continue its usage in foreseeable future.
Product Usage: Healthie is used for telemedicine consultations, patient intake forms, scheduling, managing appointments, chart notes, task management and storing lab results.
Strengths: Healthie is cost-effective, user-friendly, has useful patient-related features, and the team is open to discussing changes.
Weaknesses: The platform is buggy, has poor role-based access control, lacks proper two-way sync with Dosespot and Change Healthcare for labs, and the clinician experience is not optimal.
Overall Judgment: Healthie is an effective tool for handling non-clinical workflow management but falls short in delivering a seamless and functional provider experience, making it less ideal for scaling operations.
Product Usage: The product, Canvas, was used as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and a care management system for non-clinicians and nurse practitioners in a tech-enabled service provider for chronic care management.
Strengths: The product was easy to customize, quick and collaborative to implement, and priced competitively.
Weaknesses: The product experienced frequent performance issues, had limited capabilities, lacked robust APIs, and struggled with scheduling and patient data segregation.
Overall Judgment: Despite the ease of initial setup and customization, the persistent technical issues and a lack of certain crucial functionality led to platform migration.
Product Usage: Healthie is used by providers for patient treatment and charting, by patient coordinators for scheduling and following up with patients, and by the tech team for developing a client-facing app.
Strengths: Healthie enables seamless communication between providers and patients, facilitates group-based experiences, and is described as stable and reliable.
Weaknesses: Healthie lacks CRM functionality and has shortcomings in client-facing functionality and form-building.
Overall Judgment: Though there is room for improvement, particularly in client reporting, Healthie is deemed a solid solution that effectively unifies a variety of functions that the organization will continue to use.
Product Usage: Both patients and providers use Healthie, with patients handling messaging, care plans, and scheduling and providers dealing with scheduling, billing, and setting up care plans and programs.
Strengths: Healthie’s interface is intuitive for both patients and providers, allowing easy navigation and seamless scheduling, and the personalization feature enables the creation of specific educational programs, care plans, and goals for patients.
Weaknesses: The customization of preset default settings in Healthie is somewhat limited, sometimes requiring requests for adjustments, and flexible reporting options are restricted.
Overall Judgment: Despite limitations in customization and reporting, Healthie is favored for its intuitive navigation, seamless scheduling, and capability for care plan customization. It has proven to be a reliable infrastructure for clinical operations and the likelihood of continuing to use it remains high.
Product Usage: This respiratory care management company uses Healthie for their coaching interface, continuity tracking, and connectivity to their mobile apps.
Strengths: Healthie’s flexibility and willingness to integrate with other platforms such as Zus and Awell were highlighted. Its ability to provide an out-of-the-box clinician interface was commended. They also praised the system’s continuous improvements in developer support and documentation.
Weaknesses: Some challenges were noted with Healthie’s interface regarding the amount of clicks required for common actions, practice management and reporting, and lack of ease in transferring data from staging to production. Healthie’s inability to automate the summarizing of patient information was also seen as a drawback.
Overall Judgement: Despite some issues regarding report generation and practice management, Healthie was largely viewed as a robust and versatile platform that contributes significantly to the company’s operations.