Healthcare & Medical · ranked shortlist
Best Healthcare & Medical software for Small Practices in 2026
20 approved healthcare & medical listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Small practices buy once and keep it for years, so the ceiling of the price ladder matters as much as the rung you start on.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $12.99-$350
- Publish a $0 plan
- 7 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved healthcare & medical listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the healthcare & medical category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Allscripts
Highest rated hereHealthcare IT solutions for care coordination
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- quote
- Tags
- ehr, health-it, hospital
- #2
Allscripts Professional EHR
On-premise EHR solution for physician practices and hospitals
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- quote
- Tags
- ehr, Enterprise, hospital
- #3
Allscripts TouchWorks
Cloud-based EHR and practice management for ambulatory care
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $200 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Tags
- ehr, practice-management, ambulatory
- #4A
Amwell
Telehealth platform connecting patients with providers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- telehealth, telemedicine, virtual-care
- #5
Athenahealth
Cloud-based medical practice management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $140 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- ehr, practice-management, cloud-healthcare
- #6
athenaOne
Unified cloud platform combining EHR, practice management, and patient engagement
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $250 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Tags
- ehr, practice-management, cloud-healthcare
- #7
BetterHelp
Online therapy and counseling services
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $50 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- therapy, mental-health, counseling, online-therapy
- #8
Calm
Sleep, meditation and relaxation
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $12.99 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $99.99.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- meditation, sleep, relaxation, mental-health
- #9
Carestream Dental
Integrated Imaging and Practice Management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $350 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $500.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- dental, imaging, practice-management, Enterprise
- #10C
Cerner
Health information technology solutions for healthcare organizations
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- quote
- Tags
- ehr, Healthcare, hospital
- #11
Cerner PowerChart
Advanced clinical charting and documentation system within Cerner EHR
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- quote
- Tags
- ehr, clinical-documentation, charting
- #12
Cerner PowerWorks
Revenue cycle management and financial solutions from Cerner
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- quote
- Tags
- revenue-cycle, medical-billing, financial
- #13
ChiroTouch
Practice management software for chiropractic practices
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $75 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- chiropractic, practice-management, ehr
- #14
Cliniko
Clinic management software for health practitioners
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $59 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- practice-management, clinic-management, scheduling
- #15
Dentrix
The Most Trusted Name in Dental Practice Management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $299 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $499.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- dental, practice-management, Healthcare, dental-software
- #16
Doctor on Demand
Telehealth platform for urgent and primary care
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- usage-based
- Tags
- telehealth, telemedicine, urgent-care
- #17
Doximity
Social network and collaboration platform for physicians
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- physician-network, telemedicine, professional-network
- #18
Doxy.me
Simple and free telemedicine for healthcare providers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $35 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $50.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- telehealth, telemedicine, video-visits
- #19
DrChrono
All-in-one medical practice management and EHR platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- ehr, practice-management, medical-billing
- #20
eClinicalWorks
Comprehensive EHR and practice management platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- ehr, practice-management, Healthcare
What healthcare & medical software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $12.99Calm
- Median entry price
- $99across 11 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $350Carestream Dental
- Publish a $0 plan
- 7of 20
Paid healthcare & medical plans in this set start anywhere from $12.99 a month for Calm to $350 for Carestream Dental. The median entry price across the 11 tools that publish one is $99, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Carestream Dental's at $500 a month. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
7 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 5 of those charge nothing at all. 9 tools have no free tier of any kind.
1 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
Calm pricingCarestream Dental pricingCarestream Dental plans
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 healthcare & medical listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 7
- quote
- 5
- usage-based
- 1
Separately, 1 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 8 healthcare & medical tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Advanced analytics , 2 of 8
- Charting , 2 of 8
- Insurance management , 2 of 8
- Scheduling , 2 of 8
- Treatment planning , 2 of 8
Named by fewer
Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.
Named by exactly one vendor: Add-on integrations, Basic reporting, Core EHR, Full scheduling, Limited users, Premium support. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Healthcare & Medical” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- ehr10
- practice-management9
- telemedicine4
- Healthcare3
- hospital3
- telehealth3
- cloud-healthcare2
- dental2
- Enterprise2
- medical-billing2
- mental-health2
Carried by a single tool: ambulatory, clinic-management, dental-software, hipaa, mindfulness, professional-network, scheduling, urgent-care. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
7 of 20 healthcare & medical tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with advanced analytics, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$12.99 to $350 is a $337.01 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $350 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
4 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2.5 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, advanced analytics, charting, insurance management, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 3 billing models: subscription on 7 listings, quote on 5, and 1 other arrangement across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Questions people ask about healthcare & medical software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this healthcare & medical ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved healthcare & medical listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for small practices?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the small practices framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Small practices buy once and keep it for years, so the ceiling of the price ladder matters as much as the rung you start on.
- How much does healthcare & medical software cost?
- Across the 20 healthcare & medical tools listed here, paid plans start between $12.99 and $350 a month, with a median entry price of $99. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $500 a month (Carestream Dental). 7 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest healthcare & medical software?
- 5 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Calm has the lowest published entry price at $12.99 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free healthcare & medical software?
- Yes, 7 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 5 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should healthcare & medical software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced analytics (2 of 8 tools that publish plan detail), charting (2) and insurance management (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as add-on integrations or basic reporting, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is healthcare & medical software usually billed?
- subscription (7), quote (5), usage-based (1), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does healthcare & medical software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are ehr (10), practice-management (9), telemedicine (4), healthcare (3), hospital (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under healthcare & medical may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do healthcare & medical tools offer?
- 8 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2.5 tiers. 4 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many healthcare & medical tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved healthcare & medical listings appear on this page, including Allscripts, Allscripts Professional EHR, Allscripts TouchWorks, Amwell. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/healthcare-medical, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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