DrChrono Reviews

Save thousands in upfront expenses.

Comments: I saved thousands of dollars in upfront expenses from other EHR companies and then pay update fees every year.

Pros:

They keep current payers at the monthly price they started at when tasing the priced for new customers. I have been with and using DrChrono for about 6 years now. They are always improving. It is a nice system that can be used multi-disciplinary. I am a chiropractor an I used it with a a medical Nurse Practitioner. What initially appealed to me is there was no multi thousand dollar up front software like a lot of other EHR companies want to charge you, along with yearly upgrade fees. None of that here so you start off saving thousands.

Cons:

The Price keeps raising every year, for new accounts. Customer service sinks and there is no direct phone number to call to have the issue solved right away, you have to email them and wait for them to get back to you.

The Best All in One Medical Billing Software, Saves Time and Money

Comments: I love this software it puts all the information i need to code and bill in one place instead of having to use several before.

Pros:

I like how easy it is to find my ICD10 codes with this software. You can submit the codes right from the software.

Cons:

Some of the settings are hard to find but once you get it setup it runs smooth and makes billing and coding easy.

No Customer Support

Comments: All DrChrono cares about is the contract and they do not care about their software working or doing what they said and showed it would in the demo. Trying to work with them to get to a solution was unsuccessful. Also, it was very difficult to get ahold of the customer support as well. This has cost me many patients due their software not working, including OnPatient. I will actively show any one that wants to know how they respond to their customers. I have emails with screenshots and closing out tickets without developing a solution.

Pros:

The salesperson was very good, but was not accurate on what the functionality of DrChrono.

Cons:

Customer support was absolutely horrific. We had many questions and issues and put in help tickets with screen shots and emails from patients about issues accessing the scheduling function, medical forms, and not being able to checkin online. All of these tickets were marked as resolved even though nothing was resolved despite submitting more tickets for the same issues. All we were told was that it looked fine on there side and there was no problem. After six months of trying to get all of this fixed and functional it was never fixed. The only thing that was consistent is them taking my payment. You will have to sign a contract and we would have had to go to court to get out of the contract that they were on breach of and we determined it was cheaper to pay them then fight it. We paid six months and did not use them and I glad to be rid of them.

I can finally breathe

Comments: Overall experience has has been great! [sensitive content hidden] who who worked me to set everything up was a wonderful instructor and answered all my questions. She was accessible if I had questions outside of the instruction time. I also had another issue and they helpe me to understand to correct the issue.

Pros:

Once I have used it I can navigate easily. I am srtill learning but it has been working great!

Cons:

There really isn't anything I dislike. It's just learning everything. I do wish they had a user guide.

Dr. Chrono has been my favorite EMR of all time

Comments: LOVED the EMR
Absolutely can not financially sustain the money we are loosing to billing not able to collect. However, if I had any say in this I would simply figure out a different billing system - and make this work but it's just not up to me.
Please feel free to contact me if you ever need a sales person for South Texas/San Antonio area at [sensitive content hidden]; cell phone in US is [sensitive content hidden].

Pros:

I absolutely love charting, creating shortcuts for patient education, sending prescriptions and reviewing my patient's medical history.

Cons:

Medical billing has to go. We are not making any money at all using this system because the billers just are not understanding the health insurance companies pay out their medical claims. And so until the billers are located here in the US with prior experience in collecting claims from our insurance companies - Dr. Chrono will not be sustainable.

Does not function as advertised.

Comments: The first year or two was great. The subsequent 4.5 years have been a nightmare. Because of how hard DrChrono makes it to export charts, I feel like a prisoner to it. Read only access to charts costs $150/month and require a 1 year contract, so I can’t even gradually move my charts to a new system.

Pros:

Theoretically DrChrono offers a comprehensive product with all the features you would want under one roof. It was easy to learn how things are supposed to work. The UI is not too visually cluttered.

Cons:

It doesn’t work as promised. When something is broken, the help desk first gaslights you,, trying to convince you that it’s not broken or that it’s your fault it’s broken. Sometimes tickets are open for a month or two before they even acknowledge that it’s broken. They don’t reliably notify the larger DrChrono community of system level problems. The status page with system uptime statistics is a lie. It presently boasts 100% up time in the last 30 days, but on 11/3/22, the system was so slow it was unusable. We cancelled patients and sent admin home because we had no access to charts, as did multiple of my colleagues using DrChrono.Also read your contract with a lawyer. The sales person will promise you the moon, and there will be things that seem like common sense, but if it’s not in the contract, they won’t honor it.

Do not use this software product

Comments: I purchased this software for my primary care practice, the features seemed to fit very well. After eight months, and $10,000 paid, I have no product. After paying over $5000 to my existing software product to package the data onto a thumb drive, they were never able to extract the data. The TechTeam was clearly inept, inexperienced, and woefully lacking in training, experience, or knowledge.
Countless hours and a small fortune, they were not able to put my data into their system. I contacted my current software vendor, Quest Quanum, and it seems the data extraction problem was unique to Dr. Chrono. They strung me along for several months, while I was paying monthly fees in anticipation of getting a new EHR software, without any real transparency. Now they are demanding all the money for the two-year contract. When I stopped payments and demanded my money back, they told me that they had hired a third-party for data extraction but it would cost me more money.

Pros:

Integrated fax, calendar, messaging, all needed functions of the office and the health record combined into one software

Cons:

Very poor customer support, and lack of knowledge by support teams

Streamlining health care workflow and automation : DrChrono

Comments: Overall satisfactory experience, I have my medical appointments scheduled, improvised reminders. It enables optimised patient data management. I use it to track my billing and invoicing. The payment options are limited.

Pros:

I like the set of features they have - compliant to data safeguarding standards, managing historical customer medical history, effective scheduling and management of appointments

Cons:

The cost is high, integration of several tools is complex, the sync is missing. Complex to use overall

Safe Yourself Time and Endless Aggravation. HORRIBLE SYSTEM.

Comments: I WOULD RATHER SLIDE DOWN a RUST SLIDE WITH A RAZOR BLADE DOUSED WITH ALCOHOL THAN EVER RECCOMMED THIS EMR.

Pros:

Not one damn thing. Terrible. Horrible. DO NOT BUY!!!!

Cons:

EVERYTHING. ZERO ACCESS to SUPPORT. THEY DO NOT VALUE THEIR CUSTOMER. MY COLLEAGES FEEL THE SAME AND HAVE LEFT. I AM LEAVING TOO. UGH!

Atrocious customer service, recommending stay away

Pros:

Web based and ipad/phone app seemed easy to access

Cons:

Oh where to begin on this? Endless runaround from start to finish - just scheduling a call with someone to help set up things took a month. Then they say I needed to go through enrollment, which makes sense but this was never discussed a month prior. Then there were some issues on the backend with enrollment process which no one got back to me on. Essentially paid for 3 months of "service" with zero to show for it, complete waste of time for myself and the rest of my group. I can't believe this product is as highly rated as it is, the customer service is beyond bad. EMR is just OK, a little clunky to put in notes, it appeared to be a glorified spreadsheet on top of a data backend.

Great product but expensive

Comments: I really did like this EMR but could not justify paying so much when I could get something similar for half the cost.

Pros:

I love how all necessary features were integrated.

Cons:

The cost was too much for me per month just getting started.

BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE!

Comments: DrChrono is the most morally corrupt company that I have every worked with! These people do not care about you or your business. They do care about taking every penny they possibly can from you. In my opinion, these are that absolute worst kind of people on the planet! They are everything that is wrong with the world. If I could give them a negative 1 million, I would. Let me save you a lot of time, money and frustration by learning from my experience and go with a different company! Run, don't walk away from DRchrono and don't be fooled by a nice sounding person on the other end of the line. These people are TERRIBLE!

Pros:

The company itself is such a disaster to work with that it would matter if these guys could cure cancer, I still wouldn't work with them. They are the bottom of the barrel of humanity. Utterly disgusting people.

Cons:

The company itself. The staff, the managers and most likely all the way to the top. I dont know how they sleep at night. Every employee ought to be ashamed to work for such a dishonest company!

Poor customer service

Comments: Again terrible customer service. Takes days to get someone to help with software problems. Don’t recommend. They lock you in to contracts and refer to website for updated changes to their rules.

Pros:

Customization was nice. Worked well for integrated practice.

Cons:

Customer service and automatic 1 year renewals without out option to get out of contract.

DrChrono- Practice (Record keeping/ data Management) made easy

Comments: Awesome so far. It makes patient record easy

Pros:

Complex but Flexible> It Has a wonderful User experience and the user interface is easy to navigate.

Cons:

Occasionally slow maybe due to network.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Pros:

It is nearly a one stop shop bedside tool for a busy outpatient surgical center. Consent and Data entry is pretty easy. Creating our own templates for nearly the entire process was essential, and we were able to do that with very little help. It's fairly intuitive. There are definitely downsides to creating your own templates (see below). The ability to draw notes and fax notes is excellent, and improvements in fax documentation and signing is indicative of how they try to constantly improve. The different tiers of service offers a slightly clunky fit, though overall it is pretty decent given the fact you mainly have to choose the feature they lay out at each tier of service. Also, there are on line instructions with video for many features, but they often have outdated videos and it's hard to distinguish. They should label each version with the VERSION of Dr. Chrono to which they are doing the training in order to avoid wasting time. The set up is easy. Help for the initial set up is good. They offer good training.

Cons:

SERVICE. I can't stress strongly enough how variable the service quality is. There is no way to contact them other than email. You cannot call them. They call back at times when either I'm busy, or after hours. It's as though you can't get anyone or worse since they are at arms length. It makes it VERY difficult to deal with a complex problem. I am more that willing to pay extra for better service with a "phone line" or "hot line" to call. This has been rejected. I don't know why. I find it a poor way to run service for an EHR company. RELIABILITY: This is a real problem. There are so many breakdowns, inability to use the notes, slow service, etc. We increased our internet speed at work to 15G and it didn't really help other than increase speed when it is working. I do recommend a higher speed as the data is fairly intensive which is a plus for DrChrono - they can accomplish a lot. But the breakdowns have forced us to use paper charting on many occasions. A very recent example is that we could not view a complete not from the iPADS. We could from the computer, but that is NOT how we function, nor should we be expected to function that way. It was resolved in a few hours. The very next day you could not view notes from EITHER the iPAD or the computer. Other issues were consent forms simply dropping off the consent list on the iPAD or being put in reverse order. After many emails, they finally admitted there was a problem. Also, the back and forth creates poor communication when you get a request to take a "screen shot" of a problem that occurred a few days ago. Even then, you are lucky to get an answer other than "we are looking at this". SALES: Pretty darn good. Just wish they added a service package with a phone line/hot line.

Worst EHR. SCAM. Your patients data will be taken into hostage

Comments: Stay away from them. Dr. Chrono is Worst possible EHR in many ways. Below is actual part of Email they sent to us regarding data transfer. Hi Dr.
The last invoice to be paid to finish the contract came out on Aug. 7, you won't be charged going forward.
Here are the options for getting your data out of DrChrono:
OPTION 1
Maintain read-only access to your existing DrChrono account. This will allow you to still log in any time, any where and access your patient information. This option only requires you to sign an annual read-only access agreement with DrChrono for a small fee of $50 per month. This can be paid out monthly or you can prepay and not have to worry about the bill for another year.
OPTION 2
Use DrChrono’s manual export features. With this option, you are able to export a zip C-CDA file of your patient list. You can also export your patient demographics as a .csv file. For clinical notes and uploaded documents, you will need to export individually from within each patient’s file. There is no fee for this option but you will only have your 30 day notice window to complete your own export. Here are some support articles that provide more information about the manual export features:

Pros:

User interface loos pretty and enticing. That is all. Nothing else.

Cons:

Extremely buggy and slow. ICD and CPT codes does not accept synonyms. It only accepts exact wording of used in original CPT and ICD-10 code. I had to use google all the time to find appropriate codes to put in the charts. Takes double the time. Billing is horrendous. No way to track if payment is received and processed. When more than thousands of payments are hanging, it becomes impossible to track anymore. Finally I had to decide to stop using and give up tracking the account receivable and give up insurance payment all together for many months. It was worth to give up months of work than further loosing and not being able to collect anymore. Lessons learned in hard way. Finally, when I moved to different EHR after using Dr.Chrono for 4 years, they refused to transfer patient data. Instead, they told us to manually open and download individual items from patient charts or pay them $50 per month for read only version. The new EHR company contacted them to work through, they refused all the cooperation. One year later, I still did not receive any patient data. I complained to Better Business Bureau. I am taking legal action against them now. They will take patients information as hostage. STAY AWAY. These are scammers.

Great Foundation, Good value - Feedback is not heard

Pros:

Web interface is very good, particularly with the introduction of advanced task management. Easy to track electronic communication. Appointment templates are very helpful. App interface is great for physicians, but limited since it requires an iPad. Ideally, our Doctors could use a Surface device and have access to app interface and web interface as there are benefits to each interface. Billing Team - staff and support is rock solid. Responsive, polite and respectful of the importance of timely A/R processing and communication. By far, the Billing Team is the best representation of what DrChrono could be. The basic system is strong, robust and could be a truly excellent product with some relatively simple tweaks to managements attitude towards customer concerns.

Cons:

DrChrono does not have empathetic listening skills for business concerns, outside of the billing staff. Any and all criticism is dismissed and blamed on the user (see their responses to reviews here). Simple measures that would save their customers time and money (like a Windows app) are ignored. They act like Apple is their biggest customer (no Windows or Android support despite requests from clients). Support tickets are routinely closed prior to problem resolution. They do not allow you to call in to support for assistance, and often it seems like staff does not read the initial problem request as you have to repeat yourself 3-4 times (and get escalated) until you reach staff who can assist with anything beyond the most basic issues. Issues that impact ability to handle patient care or conduct business are not escalated appropriately. Even if a change they make to the system results in mission critical failures, there is no option to quickly escalate to an appropriate stakeholder at DrChrono. Simple requests, like customized disclaimers to limit legal liability when patients use the patient portal, are brushed off despite the risk to their clients.

Worst company I have dealt with

Comments: The first few years were really good. Last three years have rapidly declined. Would never recommend to a colleague.

Pros:

It can be customized to individual need but requires many hours to get right

Cons:

The customer service is a joke. Prices continually go up with no appreciable benefit. Difficult to exit.

DrChrono SCAM! Full Year Contract Charged - Never Able to Use!

Comments: -Expensive – full charges also apply while in training
-Software and training are complicated. Takes time to schedule with trainers in India and complete
-Only works with Apple/IOS
-No phone support whatsoever! – email only and it’s not helpful if/when you finally get a response
-Training & Tech support in India (opposite time zones) and takes at least 3 days for reply if you get one

Pros:

[SENSITIVE CONTENT] presented DrChrono as a great software for our new, small mobile medical business. However, one month into our 12-month contract, that all went out the window. The product NEVER worked for our business as described. We didn’t even get out of the “product training” before we ran into some issues. Admittedly, one issue was on our side, but the rest was on DrChrono. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] did offer a 2-month credit, but when the issues got more serious and we realized we were not able to use DrChrono, it was radio silence from everyone for months. After repeated emails asking for support, we received an email from "[SENSITIVE CONTENT], here at DrChrono" with a bill for the cancellation fee of the full monthly amount for the remainder of the year, plus one of the months they “credited”. DrChrono expects us to pay for a full year of service without ever being able to use their service for a single day!

Cons:

They're very expensive, especially when most functions of the software will not work in the field (at least for our mobile biz) and if you want anything to work in the field, you must have the most current and expensive Apple (IOS) products to run the app for each one of your people in the field. For us, that was not attainable and of course these important details were not disclosed to us before we signed a year contract with them. They offered no support by phone and eventually none by email either. Any questions we had, no matter the urgency, could only be submitted by email and it would take at least 3 days for someone in India to email back with a non-applicable/non-helpful answer.

Hind sight is 2020- Don’t Do It

Comments: Highly disappointed in the company.

Pros:

Patient reminder system and appointment scheduling.

Cons:

Many promises were made prior to going on board and I was highly excited about getting up and going. There was a lot of difficulty reaching technical support for immediate and not so immediate issues. My staff had to spend many man hours to get the proper paper work for billing of Medicare once we found out that they were dragging their feet. We could no longer wait on them getting everything in order. The issue with Medicare still has not been completely resolved to date and Medicare is one of our major carriers. Had we not intervene the present progress would not have been made. There were numerous emails and telephone calls placed only to get the usual response that they were sorry for the inconvenience and would solve the issues. You can believe that there were no problems charging the credit card on a monthly basis. The initial monthly contract agreement increased substantially and the service never came up to par. I am totally disappointment in the company and will not be renewing my contract. Ample time was given to vent my frustrations on the phone and at the end of the conversation I would be told the usual which is that they would resolve the issues. I can honestly say that that Drchrono has caused us a lot of frustration, valuable time and waste of my money. Like others have mentioned Buyer Beware.

Very good, support can be faster, down time is a problem, what is better?

Comments: Overall, I don't think there is a platform that is a better "value" for your money from BOTH a practice management and charting prospective. If you take the time to set up your system properly, it will work very well for you. Unfortunately, with their fast growth they are having server issues that is slowing the system down at time. This should be resolved and there should be less downtime.

Pros:

It is very customization, more than nearly any other option, although there are a few limitations. The clearinghouse is built into the software, which is their best feature. It is easy to use and new providers can be trained in hours (that is correct).

Cons:

Billing is not as easily accessible as other areas (a few more clicks than is needed). Logs for lab specimens needs improvement. It needs to be programmed to be used (it is not like an iphone where you are good to go right out of the box). There is downtime that slows or stops practice up to 15 minutes every 3-12 weeks, which is awful. Support is not readily available as it used to be.

Do not trust Drchrono, will not deliver what they promise, you can never get in contact with anyone

Comments: If it was not so painful to start a new EMR I would dump them
When they bill you the invoice is confusing, it says amount due, but that is not what you owe
They lied to get us to sign up then forgot us completely, have never delivered the obstetrical chart we were promised
Impossible to contact them, all done by email, you get a return email they have generated a ticket, but that is the end, no one ever gets back with you

Pros:

The Gyn chart is not terrible, it is usable if you use yearly exam for everything otherwise, med, allergies, surgeries do not carry over I pad voice recognition is fair

Cons:

OB chart is dangerous, you would have to look in 10 places to get a picture of what is going on, no problem list no flow sheet

Our nearly 4-year experience with Dr. Chrono has been frustrating and confusing, to say the least.

Comments: There are numerous bugs in the program that we've reported to Dr. Chrono, but they never reply with a straight answer. Patient reminders are unexplainably failing to send, appointments are randomly deleted or rescheduled, but Dr. Chrono does not provide any real help. They work diligently to make sure you are never able to contact them by phone. Even if I call my personal account manager's number, an automatic voicemail plays asking me to submit a support ticket. A support ticket that will not be responded to for days, and most likely you will just get referred to someone else who will ALSO NOT have a solution for you. I'm actually appalled at their lack of awareness in terms of never providing solutions.

Pros:

Advanced Reports .

Cons:

Ineffective and laughable support team and ticket system, dysfunctional patient reminder system, multiple unaddressed bugs in the system, unapologetic lack of urgency, and complete lack of communication.

Not worth the price tag

Comments: We ended up moving off this system and even that was a difficult process and still not finished. They are trying to hold our patient info hostage and charge us for access to it. We just want them to export our info and they won't. We called them today and told them if they don't give us access our attorney is getting involved and they will be reported for a HIPPA violation.

Pros:

Had a ton of functions and as a chiropractor we ran into way too many options built for a medical practice. It made it to clustered and too many choices to sift through to find what you need.

Cons:

It was clunky and hard to use and train new staff on

It started out great

Comments: I would never ever use them again.

Pros:

In 2012 this was a great product with amazing customer service and a great value for the money.

Cons:

As the company grew, customer service decreased and quality with it. iPad only was reliable Lost data on the online version