Clearwave vs Yosi Health
Updated October 16, 2026
Outpatient and specialty practices replacing clipboards at check-in often compare Clearwave and Yosi Health. Clearwave runs kiosks and mobile check-in with insurance checks and payments for busy multi-site groups, while Yosi Health sends patients a link before the visit for forms, insurance cards, and questionnaires that flow into the chart. In-office kiosks and at-home intake lead to different setups.
Our analysts compared Clearwave and Yosi Health on check-in, insurance verification, intake forms, EHR connections, and patient adoption, using the HIR review of each company and Clearwave's blog. In the following sections, we compare them in one table, describe the practice each fits, and note Clearwave's news this year.
Clearwave vs Yosi Health at a glance, October 2026
| What buyers weigh | Clearwave | Yosi Health |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Custom software pricing for check-in, insurance checks, and patient access, based on sites and volume. | Custom quote from Yosi Health. |
| What drives cost | The number of locations, patient volume, modules (insurance checks, payments, mobile), and how much EHR connection work is needed. | Number of providers or locations, which modules are used (registration, clinical intake, screeners, payments, scheduling), and EHR integration. |
| Main job | Kiosk and mobile check-in, eligibility checks, and registration at the front desk. | Phone-based intake before the visit: cards, history, consents, and scored screeners. |
| EHR connection | Connects to outpatient EHRs; complex setups make it harder; scores 6.8 on rollout. | Two-way integration with Epic, in Epic’s App Market since 2022, and athenahealth; scores 7.3. Higher score |
| Front-desk results | Scores 7.3 on faster clean registration. Higher score | Scores 6.9 on front-desk time saved; few outcome numbers published. |
| Product depth | Scores 7.2 for intake and eligibility depth. Higher score | Scores 6.8 for intake and forms. |
| Going live | 3-8 weeks to connect and build, 2-4 weeks at a first location, 1-3 months to roll out. | 2-6 weeks for contract and EHR connection, first locations in 1-2 months. |
| Who it fits | Groups whose bottleneck is registration and eligibility at arrival. | Orthopedic and specialty practices on Epic or athenahealth that want hands-on setup from a smaller vendor. |
| Poor fit | Practices that only need text reminders. | Health systems that want intake, messaging, and AI agents across every department. |
| Time to full value | Not published | About 4 to 9 months |
| What you need first | An owner for the EHR connection, and test patients ready. | Front-desk manager who owns check-in. |
| Deal-breaker | You only want text reminders, with no change to registration. | There is no way to connect to your EHR. |
| Pricing clarity score | 6.9 Clearer pricing | 6.0 |
| HIR overall score | 7.1, Recommend. Higher score | 6.8, Conditional. |
| Best for | Outpatient and specialty groups that need self-service registration, insurance checks, and check-in that flow into the EHR. | Orthopedic and specialty practices on Epic or athenahealth that want digital intake. |
| Not a fit for | Practices that only need text reminders, without registration or insurance checks. | Health systems that want intake, messaging, and AI agents across every department. |
Which fits which buyer
Watch where patients spend time on arrival day.
Choose Clearwave if
- You want kiosks and mobile check-in across many sites.
- Insurance checks and payments at registration matter most.
- AI agents for scheduling and outreach interest you.
Choose Yosi Health if
- You run an orthopedic or specialty practice on Epic or athenahealth.
- Patients should finish forms and questionnaires at home.
- Scored questionnaires need to land in the chart.
Verdict
Clearwave scores higher and fits groups that want registration and payments automated. Yosi Health is a conditional pick for specialty practices focused on pre-visit intake.
Ask each for patient completion rates in your specialty.
Where the two tools are headed in 2027 and beyond
Clearwave: Clearwave launched an AI patient engagement platform with agents for check-in, intake, eligibility, and payments on August 12, 2026.
Pilot each at one location for a month.
Methodology
Each row comes from the HIR reviews of Clearwave and Yosi Health, scored under the HIR method, and from each vendor's public pricing where it exists. Any published price for Clearwave or Yosi Health was checked on that vendor's own site on October 16, 2026.
A green check marks a clear edge for Clearwave or Yosi Health only where their review scores differ by at least 0.3 points or the two reviews show a plain difference. Rows with nothing published for either Clearwave or Yosi Health are left out, and time to full value for each adds up the rollout stages in its review.