Resources
What we have learned building for small practices.
Notes on how a clinic actually runs, what practice software usually gets wrong about it, and the decisions behind LogBlues. Written by the people building it, for the people using it.
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WorkspaceClinic in one window
Most clinics run on a scheduler, a chart, a billing tool and four spreadsheets. What changes when they are the same thing.
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BluesAI in the building
Clinical AI usually works by sending the chart to a third party. We tried building it the other way, and here is the trade.
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SecurityWhere your patient data actually lives
One question shapes more of your risk than most, and it rarely comes up in a demo: where do the charts actually sit?
Read →The archive
Everything, by topic.
Twenty-one pieces. Pick a subject and the list narrows.
Become HIPAA compliant, and stay that way
A checklist for a small clinic: what to put in place once, the calendar that keeps it in place, and ten pages worth reading.
Your nursing staff
A nurse’s shift in LogBlues, step by step, and what the Nurse role can and cannot open. Then tell us what slows you down.
Clinic in one window
Most clinics run on a scheduler, a chart, a billing tool and four spreadsheets. What changes when they are the same thing.
The patient chart
Every appointment, note, file, case and invoice hangs off one patient record. Getting to it takes one search.
Smarter scheduling
Day, week and provider views, reminders written for you on the days you pick, and an .ics feed your work calendar can open.
Visits and coding
Vitals, notes, procedures and codes in the place the work already happens, instead of a separate program afterwards.
Private team messages
Threads attached to the patient they are about, files that travel with them, and nothing routed through a consumer chat app.
Files and imaging on the record
Where the scan, the outside record and the signed consent live, who can open them, and how you get one back in a hurry.
Unassigned work
Every clinic runs on follow-ups living in somebody’s head. What happens when they get an owner and a due date instead.
Care across visits
Cases group a course of treatment. Referrals come back to a person instead of going quiet for three weeks.
Coding at the visit, not at the end of the month
CPT, HCPCS and ICD-10-CM where the work happens, invoices that follow, and balances you can see without running a report.
Roles, permissions and who can see what
Ten roles across sixteen domains, deciding which screens and dashboard cards each person reaches. How the permission model is drawn, and why it is drawn there.
Know where you stand
Who is coming, what is outstanding, what needs a person today, on one screen before the first patient arrives.
Software people don’t dread
Clinical software is famous for being unpleasant to use. That is a choice somebody made, and it can be made differently.
AI in the building
Clinical AI usually works by sending the chart to a third party. We tried building it the other way, and here is the trade.
Where your patient data actually lives
One question shapes more of your risk than most, and it rarely comes up in a demo: where do the charts actually sit?
When software goes down, the clinic shouldn’t
Your waiting room is full and the system is unreachable. What a local-first design changes about that afternoon, and what it does not.
The notes that follow you home
Charting was supposed to save time, and for a lot of providers it has not worked out that way. Where the friction tends to sit.
Flying blind on your own numbers
A hospital has analysts. A smaller practice usually has the owner, after hours. The data already exists; something has to surface it.
Built for the practices that got priced out
Larger practices have procurement departments to buy for them. Smaller ones are often left choosing between enterprise pricing and nothing much.
Software that complies with you
Software usually asks the practice to adapt to it. We tried it the other way round, and named the idea after the inversion.
Nothing on that yet. Write to us and we will fix it.
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