Imagine finishing your final patient visit of the day. The patient leaves. You close the chart. And you’re done. Not “mostly done.” Not “I’ll finish the note tonight.” Done. No pile of unfinished charts waiting after dinner. No laptop coming […]

You have 60 minutes with a patient. How much of that time should be spent asking questions your patient could have answered before they ever walked through the door? Ten minutes? Thirty? Fifty? For many functional medicine practitioners, information gathering […]

There’s a fundamental problem hiding inside many traditional EHRs. They’re very good at doing what they were originally designed to do. The problem is that what they were designed to do may not be what you need. Traditional EHR architecture […]

When you’re shopping for an EHR, one of the first things companies love to talk about is their template library. Hundreds of templates. Maybe thousands. Templates for physical exams. Templates for treatment plans. Templates for common diagnoses. It sounds impressive. […]

Picture a typical medical visit. The provider walks into the room, asks a few questions, then turns toward the computer. Click. Type. Scroll. Click. Type some more. Meanwhile, the patient is sitting behind them wondering what’s going into the chart. […]

A comprehensive functional medicine history can involve 100, 150, or even 200 individual data points. Symptoms. Previous treatments. Family history. Lifestyle. Nutrition. Sleep. Stress. Medications. Supplements. Digestive function. Hormones. Mental health. Immune function. And that’s before you start asking the […]

A new functional medicine patient walks into your office. They have a 15-page intake questionnaire. They brought outside medical records. Their labs are in another portal. You have handwritten notes from the appointment. Prescriptions are managed somewhere else. Patient messages […]

If you’ve ever spent two hours charting a one-hour functional medicine visit, the problem probably isn’t that you’re slow. The problem may be that you’re asking for software designed for an entirely different kind of medicine to support the way […]

If your Texas practice offers functional, integrative, longevity, or other complementary and alternative treatments, you’ve probably heard about the Texas Medical Board’s updated CAM consent requirements. And if you’ve tried reading through the regulations yourself, you may have walked away […]