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HIPAA compliant scheduling vendor?


Hi HN,

The healthcare startup I work at currently uses Acuity Scheduling to enable patients to schedule appointments with zoom calls with our providers.

It has decent APIs, so we've been able to build a fair amount to make it work for us, e.g. syncing to our EHR (athena), custom handlers for notifications / appointment confirmations.

No doubt it has gotten us pretty far (google calendar integration is nice!), but we find it lacking in several ways:

- no localization support

- no concept of licensing for our clinicians / more complex scheduling algorithms dependent on patient attributes

- no support for multiple provider appointments (e.g. when 2 providers share an appointment, one taking the intake portion, the other the provider taking the rest of the appointment)

- subpar support for class appointments, e.g. patients can't add themselves to a class after the first session has occurred

Does anyone have a HIPAA compliant scheduling vendor they particularly like or dislike that supports some of these features?

Thanks in advance!


  👤 jklein11 Accepted Answer ✓
If you are open to something custom shoot me an email. I have worked in this space for quite sometime and from what I have seen you are typically at the mercy of what the EHR vendor will provide.