A few days ago the news came out that Y Combinator startup company DrChrono has raised another $2.8 million in funding. Here’s the summary from Techcrunch:
Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has raised $2.8 million in funding led by Yuri Milner, with Google’s Matt Cutts and other investors participating. The startup had previously raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Milner, General Catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Gmail creator and FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit, Cutts, and the Start Fund.
It’s an interesting mix of people that are funding DrChrono. Matt Cutts interests me a bunch since he works on the search engine team at Google in charge of Spam. Obviously, this is a quite different space.
The most interesting information in the Techcrunch article is the number of providers and patients that DrChrono has in its system.
The company also announced it now has more than 15,000 registered providers, and more than 400,000 patients using the drchrono platform.
Of course, we know how EMR companies are with these numbers. It’s one thing to have a registered provider and it’s quite another to have them actually using the EHR software. Also, I can’t help but wonder if the 400,000 patients includes imports of a physicians past patients. I’d love to hear some real numbers. For example, how many daily active users (doctors) do they have using their iPad EHR?
I also find it interesting that DrChrono has only taken $4.1 million in funding versus funding like CareCloud’s $27.3 million and Practice Fusion’s $38 million. Seems like DrChrono has chosen the much more conservative EHR software route as opposed to the more ambitious healthcare platform route that the others are working on.
[…] Unfortunately, with the exception of Epic’s Canto, few vendors offer a fully-fledged iPad app as a front end to their system. (One of few examples of a native iPad app from a smaller EMR vendor comes from Dr. Chrono, which, perhaps not so coincidentally, just got $2.8 million in venture funding.) […]