2016 Black Book Survey Ranks drchrono #1 Mobile Electronic Health Record App by Physicians

4th Consecutive Year drchrono Ranked #1 on iPad, iPhone and Mobile; New iOS Features and Benefits on drchrono EHR App Go Live


MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - May 5, 2016) -  drchrono, Inc., the industry leading Electronic Health Record (EHR), Practice Management, Medical Billing and Medical API Platform on iPad, iPhone and web, announced today that the company has been named the top mobile EHR app by medical professionals in the 2016 Black Book independent survey. This marks the fourth consecutive year that drchrono has earned this designation.

Black Book invited over 450,000 EHR users to participate in the 2016 annual Black Book EMR/EHR Satisfaction Survey and nearly 18,000 users participated. Based on the survey results, drchrono ranked as the top mobile EHR. Breaking down the categories, physicians ranked drchrono the #1 overall mobile EHR as well as the top EHR for strategic alignment, training, client relationships & cultural fit, trust & accountability, deployment & implementation, reliability, support & customer care, and more. drchrono ranked #1 in 10 out of the 18 key performance indicators (KPIs).

"We have been focusing on iPad since it was launched in 2010. We recently launched a fully functional EHR app for iPhone which takes advantage of the larger screen size, creating the best mobile experience, we can, for healthcare providers," said Michael Nusimow, CEO and Co-Founder of drchrono. "We are honored to receive this recognition from Black Book and are pleased to see that drchrono's mobile EHR is the market leader among medical professionals."

drchrono continues to innovate in the mobile health space with consistent and ingenuitive updates to its mobile apps. The company's newly released iOS applications help make managing a practice and treating patients more efficient.

drchrono's mobile EHR was recognized this year by Black Book Rankings for its leading iOS offerings.

Following is a list of drchrono's new iPad and iPhone (iOS) enhancements:

  • e-Prescribing (eRX) on iPhone - Doctors can now conveniently e-Prescribe within the EHR mobile application on iPhone. This is an efficient time saving feature that allows providers to find a patient's favorite pharmacy, check drug to drug interactions, and prescribe medications.
  • Practice Dashboard on iPad - Practices can now see a comprehensive summary of all appointments, messages, and tasks in one convenient dashboard on iPad. This enhancement is most helpful for those who want an overview summary of what's happening within a practice day to day. 
  • Custom Vital Graphs on iPad - Specialists and practitioners who have been using drchrono's new "Custom Vital" functionality can now visualize the data on iPad. Custom vital graphs help track unique and/or specific data overtime with a beautiful and easy to use graphical timeline. Tracking a custom vital over months or years has never been easier.
  • Other notable iOS updates and new mobile features added to the drchrono EHR app - signature capability for faxes and referrals, PDF support for annotations and form fields, as well as the ability to assign tasks to groups within a practice. 

The complete 2016 Black Book report is now available to download for free through the drchrono website at: https://www.drchrono.com/blackbook/

To learn more about drchrono's EHR app visit https://www.drchrono.com/

About drchrono
drchrono creates the best electronic health record (EHR) and practice management experience for physicians and patients; the platform was built for iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and web. To date, drchrono has over 90,000 physicians signed up and 6 million patients. Some features of drchrono include medical speech-to-text, real-time patient eligibility checks, medical billing and patient credit card processing. The platform includes a healthcare app ecosystem and a medical API, which practices can leverage. The company is scheduling over 3 million patient appointments per quarter and processed over $1.2 billion dollars in medical billing per year. drchrono is ranked by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Silicon Valley Business Journal designated drchrono as one of the fastest growing private companies and Black Book Rankings voted their EHR the #1 mobile Electronic Health Record 4 years in a row. For more information about drchrono, visit www.drchrono.com

drchrono e-Prescribing (eRX) on iPhone