The Personal Physician
01 · Family medicine
Warm editorial primary care, with generous typography and a personal physician story.
PreviewSelect a design foundation for your practice website. Every template is fully customizable — and we can mix and match elements from different templates to fit your style.
Create accounts with these essential providers to run your practice. Check each off as you go.
Claims clearinghouse for electronic billing, eligibility verification, and ERA/EOB
One recommendation. The right one.
While patient data is stored in the cloud, it's inevitable that browser cache, system memory, and local storage will contain unencrypted PHI — this is unavoidable for any EMR. Mac's built-in FileVault encryption and the Secure Enclave chip ensure that this data is always encrypted at rest, even if the laptop is lost or stolen.
Touch ID enables passwordless login via passkeys — faster and more secure than passwords. This also streamlines EPCS (Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances) authentication and enables offline mode for Hero EMR when internet is unavailable.
Apple's Find My and MDM support provide industry-leading remote wipe capabilities. If a laptop goes missing, you can instantly erase all data remotely — critical for HIPAA compliance and protecting patient information.
The MacBook Air's 1080p FaceTime camera provides clear, high-quality video for virtual visits — no external webcam needed. Patients see a professional, well-lit image out of the box.
The M4 chip delivers desktop-class performance at laptop prices. The 15" Liquid Retina display is ideal for reviewing charts and imaging. At $1,299, it's significantly less expensive than comparable Windows machines with similar build quality.
At just 3.3 lbs with a fanless design and 18-hour battery, the MacBook Air goes anywhere — exam rooms, home, conferences. No charger needed for a full day of patient care.
Final practice setup items to handle before you wrap onboarding.
Set up a dedicated main line for patient calls, website contact details, and practice operations.
Keep ownership of your domain, but let Hero manage the DNS records needed for your website, portal, secure subdomains, and email authentication.
Hero's standard Cloudflare nameservers are listed below. Add both at the company where you bought the domain, then reply to our setup email when the change is saved.
These are Hero's standard nameservers. If Hero sends a different pair for your specific domain, use the pair in that setup email.
Task-first walkthroughs recorded in Hero EMR itself, for training the people who will use it every day. Hand them to a new hire in order, or send a single one when a question comes up.
Everything a new front desk hire meets in their first week, in roughly the order they meet it, from signing in to taking a payment. Each video stands on its own, so they work as refreshers too.
Signing in, the two toolbar rows, finding a patient with Chart search, Patient Information, the assistant keys, the to-do list, and dark mode.
The day table column by column, the preview pane, every right-click menu, week, month and team views, Next opening, Highlight gaps, and the waitlist rail.
Booking from Available Time Slots, the waitlist, rescheduling, the cancel dialog and its reasons, and a real Shuffle batch staged and applied when a provider calls in sick.
The three doors a new patient arrives through — the website booking widget, a phone call, and the front desk — then the portal invite, Complete Signup, and scanning an insurance card.
The Previsit column, Visit Readiness in the preview pane, checking a patient in at the desk, and when to hand someone the kiosk instead.
The softphone dock and its status, do not disturb, calling a patient, transferring a call, voicemail, and what the AI agent does when nobody picks up.
Patient messages routed to the desk, writing and sending a reply, sorting and filtering the queue, website inquiries, and what to hand to a clinician.
Working the shared fax queue — the folders, linking a fax to the right chart, creating a chart from one, marking it done — and accepting an inbound referral.
The board end to end: Mark arrived, Triage, Room and Discharge, acuity, reaching a patient by call or text, the copay chip, and the patient’s own phone sign-up.
Where a patient’s balance lives, taking cash and checks with the change worked out for you, statements singly and in bulk, the Day Sheet, and how patients pay in the portal.