The best EHR
for Direct Primary Care (DPC)

As health insurance gets increasingly confusing and expensive, patients and providers are turning to a smarter, more affordable healthcare option to facilitate high quality medical care. Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a form of modern healthcare that allows patients to receive excellent quality care without having to deal with insurance, high fees, denials, or third-party coverage restrictions. Free from the restrictions of payers and the limitations of insurance, physicians can offer high quality medical care to their patients and send lower cost bills directly to their patients. Transactions are fast, easy, and efficient with Direct Primary Care, as the billing process is straightforward and simple.

Direct Primary Care physicians often face packed schedules that force them to make trade-offs between providing high quality care and nurturing the doctor-patient relationship and shortening the consultation in order to see sufficient patients. The best Direct Primary Care EHR should enable physicians to avoid such practice trade-offs, allowing DPC physicians to see large volumes of patients and handle comprehensive spectrum of illnesses that affect adults, without compromising high quality care delivery.

The majority of EHR systems today are based on "templates" that offer a one-size-fits all approach, forcing providers to use structured pick-lists to document patient encounters. Templates require significant amounts of data entry and users experience high degrees of dissatisfaction, often spending twice as much time with their EHR as they do with their patients. Most physicians describe template EHR systems as clunky, rigid, difficult to use, and would not recommend them to a colleague. Today's template EHR systems do not fit the DPC practices and are poorly designed to handle the modern documentation demands facing Direct Primary Care providers.