Ranking · Clinics
Practice management and EHR platforms used by US clinics — ambulatory suites (athenahealth, Tebra, AdvancedMD, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Elation Health), specialty and wellness tools (SimplePractice, Jane), patient-engagement layers (NexHealth), plus a generic CRM (HubSpot).
For independent clinics, specialty practices, behavioral-health offices, and wellness practitioners.
This ranking now uses the dated review box. Scores are unchanged this pass. The daily rotation will re-read official vendor pages next.
Comparison table
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Showing 10 of 10 CRMs
| Price | Profile | |||||||
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1 Tebra Medical software | 8.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | From $49/provider/month | View profile → |
2 AdvancedMD Medical software | 7.8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | From ~$130/provider/month | View profile → |
3 athenahealth Medical software | 7.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Contact for pricing | View profile → |
4 Jane Medical software | 7.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | From $54/month | View profile → |
5 SimplePractice Medical software | 7.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | From $49/month | View profile → |
6 DrChrono Medical software | 7.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Contact for pricing | View profile → |
7 eClinicalWorks Medical software | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Contact for pricing | View profile → |
8 Elation Health Medical software | 6.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Contact for pricing | View profile → |
9 NexHealth Medical software | 6.4 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Contact for pricing | View profile → |
10 HubSpot CRM Generic platform | 4.6 | No | No | No | No | No | Free plan | View profile → |
We mark a feature as present only when it is native to the product — marketplace integrations do not count. Click a column header to sort.
Ranking
The order is the overall score — a weighted average of the six criteria with this vertical’s weights. Full EHR suites and patient-engagement add-ons sit on the same yardstick on purpose. The score says what the product covers — not that a messaging layer replaces a chart.
EHR+ platform from the Kareo and PatientPop merger — charting, e-prescribing, telehealth, claims, online scheduling, and practice marketing in one independent-practice suite.
From $49/provider/month (public range; bundles higher)
View profileCloud EHR, practice management, patient engagement, and RCM options with a public pricing builder — aimed at independent practices that need specialty workflows and claim scrubbing.
From ~$130/provider/month (specialty bundles; builder on site)
View profileathenaOne combines cloud EHR, practice management, revenue cycle, and patient engagement for ambulatory care — priced as a percentage of collections, not a public seat card.
Contact for pricing
View profileAll-in-one practice management for wellness clinics — online booking, charting, telehealth, payments, reminders, and optional insurance billing — with public USD plans.
From $54/month (Balance; Practice $79; Thrive $99)
View profilePractice management EHR for health and wellness — scheduling, notes, telehealth, insurance tools, client portal, and public monthly plans aimed at behavioral health and allied clinicians.
From $49/month (Starter; Essential and Plus higher)
View profileAI-powered cloud EHR by EverHealth — iPad-friendly charting, practice management, medical billing, OnPatient portal, and built-in telehealth for independent practices.
Contact for pricing
View profileLarge-scale cloud ambulatory EHR with patient self-scheduling, telehealth, secure messaging, value-based care tools, and RCM services — broad specialty coverage, quote-based pricing.
Contact for pricing
View profileAI-native EHR built for independent primary care — clinical workflows, Note Assist documentation, and practice billing positioned for family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine.
Contact for pricing
View profilePatient experience platform — online booking, forms, reminders, payments, and insurance eligibility that sync to the existing health record. Complements an EHR; does not replace the chart.
Contact for pricing
View profileMature general-purpose CRM with a permanent free tier. Excellent pipeline and marketing — zero native EHR, e-prescribing, or insurance claims.
Free plan (permanent); paid seats from Starter
View profileSide by side
Stuck between two? Open the comparison: scores by criterion, features, and an editorial verdict when one exists. Only the main duels appear here — editorial verdicts and pairs among the top five. Other pairs live on each system profile and at the bottom of each duel page.
Context
In the US clinic market a “CRM” is almost never a sales board. The cycle runs through online booking, intake, a clinical chart, e-prescribing or notes, payer claims, patient payments, recalls, and follow-up. That is why a generic CRM and a practice-management suite do not play the same game — and this comparer puts both on one ranking, with explicit weights.
There is a third group that is easy to confuse in a demo: the patient-engagement layer. Online scheduling, reminders, and payments that sync into someone else’s EHR. They enter the same ranking on the same yardstick. A product that only books appointments loses on charting on purpose; a hospital-grade EHR that hides pricing loses on transparency. The score does not say “bad product” — it says what the product is.
Native messaging on the patient record (two-way SMS/inbox or WhatsApp API) is on the yardstick. One-way reminder blasts, portal-only chat, and marketplace apps do not count.
A daily rotation re-reads official pages in this cut — one category per day — price, trial, new module, URL that disappears. The box at the top says what changed and what stayed the same, so you do not have to open every vendor site. The order only moves when the public source changes the product.