Company leader
Daniel Kivatinos
Co-founder
DrChrono
Daniel Kivatinos co-founded DrChrono with Michael Nusimow in New York City in 2009 and was its chief operating officer through EverCommerce's purchase of the company in 2021. DrChrono makes electronic health records, scheduling, and billing software for independent practices, and its early bet on the iPad let physicians chart a visit during the exam.
Studying at Stony Brook
He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and psychology in 2001 and a master's degree in computer science in 2002, both from Stony Brook University, where he met Michael Nusimow. He went on to work at several startups in New York City.
Starting DrChrono over Coffee
In 2008 he and Nusimow sat down over coffee to talk about changing health care. "We didn't have a business model, nor medical backgrounds, but we could build software," he wrote. They built the name from dr for doctor and chrono for time.
Betting on the iPad
The first versions were an appointment reminder system and then a billing engine. "Then we heard that the iPad was coming out and our whole company changed," he said. They built on Apple's software kit before the hardware shipped, and when the iPad arrived, doctors signed up in droves. The company later offered an API on its record, so another firm could add a lab order or a card payment on top.
He was invited to the White House to work on Sync for Science, a federal pilot that lets patients send selected record data to a research study. He is now co-founder and chief executive of loopfour, which builds workflow software for founders, operators, and finance teams.