The July 2026 DrChrono release focuses on speed, clarity, and a stronger clinical foundation — from faster note signing and medication list loading to a rich text editor that keeps your Scribe notes looking exactly as they were captured. A set of new early access opportunities opens the door to real-time claims, digital patient payments, a rebuilt patient portal, and more.
Signing and locking a clinical note now completes in 1–2 seconds instead of up to 7, so you can submit your claim and move on without staring at a loading screen at the end of every visit.
- ⚡ Average Sign & Lock confirmation time drops from ~7 seconds to 1–2 seconds.
- 🏃 Close the encounter tab and submit your claim immediately after signing — no more waiting.
- 📋 No changes to the sign and lock workflow itself — the same steps, just significantly faster.
We've addressed the most common causes of ePrescribing transmission failures — including sig formatting, missing patient fields, and message structure issues — so your prescriptions go through reliably without manual rework.
- 💊 Sig (dosing directions) text is now validated before submission, eliminating the most frequent rejection type.
- 📋 Required patient demographic fields are enforced before a prescription is sent to prevent downstream errors.
- 🔁 Providers experience fewer failed transmission interruptions during patient encounters.
Clinical notes generated by EverHealth Scribe now retain their formatting when they appear in DrChrono — bold text, line breaks, and structure stay intact, so your notes look exactly the way Scribe captured them.
- 📋 Rich formatting (bold, structure, line breaks) is preserved when Scribe notes sync to DrChrono — no more plain text output.
- ✏️ Less manual re-editing after generation — notes are ready to review, not to reformat.
- 🖥️ Available in both the DrChrono web EHR and the mobile app.
Retrospective ePA streamlines pharmacy-initiated prior authorizations by receiving electronic requests from CoverMyMeds directly in DrChrono. Instead of relying on faxed requests, staff can review, complete, and track prior authorizations from the Message Center and patient chart.
- 🔄 Reduce manual work by replacing many fax-based prior authorization requests with an electronic workflow.
- 🗂️ Keep everything in one place by managing and tracking prior authorizations directly within DrChrono.
- ⚡ Respond faster with electronic notifications, status updates, and payer responses available in the Message Center.
EverHealth Scribe now suggests CPT codes for your assessments and diagnosis lists with built-in billing rules, so AI-drafted codes follow correct ordering and payer-specific requirements without extra manual review.
- 💳 Suggested codes respect payer-specific ordering rules, so a code like a Z-code is never placed in the primary position when your organization's rules prohibit it.
- 🔄 Works with your existing DrChrono billing settings, including auto-set problems and last-visit pulls.
- ✅ Reduces manual rework and lowers denial risk by giving your billing team a trustworthy starting point instead of another audit step.
Patient statements now match the format mailed by your statement vendor — same layout, fonts, and sections — and clearly explain why a balance was transferred to the patient.
- 📄 The statement you see in DrChrono is now visually identical to what your patients receive in the mail.
- 💡 Statements clearly show whether a balance is due to a deductible, coinsurance, or copay — reducing patient confusion and inbound calls.
Patients can now pay their balance using Apple Pay or Google Pay with a single tap using Face ID, Touch ID, or device PIN instead of manually entering card details.
- 📱 Apple Pay and Google Pay work directly in DrChrono's patient payment experience — no app download or account creation required.
- 🔒 Payments are tokenized at the device level — no card numbers are stored or transmitted in plaintext.
- 💰 Faster patient payment collection means fewer follow-up calls and less staff time chasing balances.
The Insurance and Eligibility screens are now merged into a single tab, making it faster to manage coverage, run eligibility checks, switch insurance priorities, and upload ID card images all in one place.
- 🗂️ Insurance and eligibility now live in one unified tab — no more navigating between two separate screens.
- 📋 Run eligibility checks and see results inline beneath each insurance record.
- 🔄 Switching insurance priority (for example, promoting secondary to primary) includes a confirmation step and automatic archiving for auditability.
- 📸 Upload front and back insurance card images directly to each insurance record.
The OnPatient patient portal has been completely rebuilt with a modern, mobile-first design. A new native app is now available on iOS and Android, giving patients a consistent experience whether they're on a desktop browser or their phone.
- 📱 A native mobile app on iOS and Android delivers a true mobile experience — not a shrunk desktop view.
- 🏥 Cleaner vitals views, more readable lab results, and easier access to health education documents.
- 📅 Appointment scheduling that respects your practice's appointment profiles and availability.
Patient messages are now grouped into continuous conversation threads, giving you the full history of each patient communication in a single, scrollable view rather than a series of disconnected message items.
- 💬 All messages on a topic appear in one thread — no more searching through separate message items to find prior context.
- ⚡ Staff and providers can reply faster and more accurately when full conversation history is immediately visible.
- 🔄 Existing Message Center sections, sending/receiving behaviors, and workflows are unchanged — no retraining required.
EverHealth Scribe can now recommend prescription drafts based on your visit transcript, sending draft medications and dosing instructions directly into your eRx workflow for review and approval, reducing the manual entry work per prescription by approximately half.
- 💊 Scribe analyzes the visit transcript and recommends medications and dosing directions as eRx drafts.
- ✍️ Drafts flow directly into your existing eRx delegation workflow — no new approval process is introduced.
- ⏱️ Reduces manual prescription field entries per patient-medication by an estimated 50%, including 2–3 fewer search steps.
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Contact DrChrono support for help with any feature in this release.