San Francisco-based Canvas Medical has launched its primary care software platform and made it publicly available.
The startup’s technology is specifically focused on independent primary care practices. The goal is to make medical charting and administrative tasks less time-consuming for clinicians.
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The Canvas platform integrates with an office’s extant interfaces and data. The office’s information — such as patient demographics, medications and clinical notes — are imported into Canvas.
The company claims its technology can autocomplete certain fields in the medical records, automate quality protocols and deliver insights on the population health front.
“There is mounting evidence that independent practices provide the kind of care patients want at a better value than their corporate counterparts,” Canvas CEO and cofounder Andrew Hines said in a news release. “Having the right technology in place can help practices thrive and remain independent for the benefit of their patients.”
Founded in 2015, the startup wrapped up a funding round spearheaded by Upfront Ventures. Village Global, iSeed Ventures and a few angel investors also participated. Including the recently closed round, Canvas has raised slightly over $3 million in venture funding.
The company counts practices like Indiana-based Greenfield First Care, California-based Temescal Creek Medicine and Alabama-based Whitesburg Family Medicine among its clients.
Given the current healthcare climate, it’s a wise time to focus on primary care.
Last fall, a study from the University of Wisconsin and the American Medical Association was released. It found EHR tasks take up about half of the primary care physician’s workday.
More broadly speaking, a Medscape survey released earlier this year looked at the prevalence of physician burnout. Among 15,000 physicians from 29 specialties, 42 percent said they were burned out. Twelve percent reported colloquial depression and 3 percent said they were clinically depressed. A few specialties — including family medicine — were more likely to experience feelings of burnout.
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