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.
For physicians, nurse practitioners and therapists, in the order to watch them, from finding your way around to signing and coding a visit. The rest of the series is being recorded and will appear here as each one is finished.
How a physician’s screen is organized, from Home and the calendar through the chart and the tools on the wand, so every later video starts from familiar ground.
A telehealth visit from both sides: how it is set up, how the patient joins, how you join, and how Hero captures the conversation for your note.
Writing a note by typing: opening the visit, the editor and its toolbar, bringing chart data in, the AI helpers, and quick notes for work that happens outside a visit.
Recording a visit so Hero writes the note from your conversation with the patient, and what to do when a recording needs attention.
Every choice that shapes the note Hero writes from a recording: the template, the chart context it reads, the writing engine, and split psychiatry and psychotherapy notes.
Building the templates Hero uses for dictated notes: cloning a system template, what a template’s text means to Hero, the AI Wizard, testing a template, and Auto Templates.
Inserting dot phrases, the ones Hero ships with, the ones that pull live data from the chart, building your own with blanks and dropdowns, and phrases that carry forward from visit to visit.
The library of standard instruments, making your own version, sending them automatically before visits, and reading the results, including bringing them into your note.
What Hero drafts when you save a note, where each suggestion lands, which ones wait for your approval, and how to review all of it before you sign.
Reading the medication list, writing and sending a prescription, pharmacies, cancelling, and answering renewal and refill requests.
What must be set up before you can prescribe controlled substances electronically, signing one with two-factor approval on your phone, and checking the state PDMP.
From order to result: ordering a test, order sets, the paper requisition, how results arrive, reviewing and trending them, and telling the patient.
What the patient takes home: the after-visit instructions Hero drafts, education handouts, homework between visits in the My Hero app, and work and school letters.
Encounter Completion section by section, the checks that must pass before you sign, what signing does, and how to change a visit after it is signed.
Your part of billing: choosing the E/M level, procedures with modifiers and diagnosis links, place of service, cash pay and no charge, and what happens to the claim after you sign.