The All-in-One Dream
Every DPC doc has the same fantasy: one app that does everything. Charting, billing, messaging, labs, scheduling, patient portal, e-prescribing — all in one beautiful system. No more tabs. No more context switching. Just... one thing.
Cerbo pitches that dream pretty hard. And honestly, they deliver more of it than most. If you're running a functional medicine or concierge practice and you want maximum customization in a single platform, Cerbo is a legitimate option.
But here's the thing nobody says out loud: even Cerbo clinics still use other apps.
The Reality of "All-in-One"
We talk to Cerbo clinics all the time. Great platform. Genuinely powerful charting. And almost every single one of them also uses:
- Spruce for messaging (because patients prefer it)
- A separate lab portal (because LabCorp and Quest have their own systems)
- Hint for membership billing (because most clinics prefer Hint's DPC-native subscription billing)
- A pharmacy tool for e-prescribing
- Sometimes a separate scheduling tool
So the "all-in-one" still ends up being 4-5 apps. And now you're back to 6 browser tabs and a patient you can't find in half of them.
We've seen this movie before. It plays the same way every time.
Where Tabflows Comes In
Tabflows doesn't replace Cerbo. We don't want to. Cerbo is great at what it does.
What we do is connect Cerbo to everything else your clinic uses. Open a patient in Cerbo — Tabflows opens that same patient in Spruce, in your lab portal, in Hint, in every other app. Automatically. One click.
No searching. No copying names. No "hold on, let me find them in the other system."
Different Philosophies
Cerbo's philosophy: build everything into one platform.
Tabflows' philosophy: connect whatever you already chose.
Both are valid. But one requires you to migrate your entire workflow into a single vendor. The other works with what you've got, starting today.
Cerbo
- Approach: All-in-one EHR platform
- Setup: Weeks to months (data migration)
- Works with: Its own ecosystem
- Solves: Charting, billing, portal
Tabflows
- Approach: Connects your existing apps
- Setup: 60 seconds (Chrome extension)
- Works with: Elation, Hint, Spruce, Cerbo, and more
- Solves: Tab switching between apps
- Price: $5/user/month
When Cerbo Makes More Sense
If you're starting a practice from scratch and want one platform to rule them all, Cerbo is a strong pick. Especially if you're in functional or integrative medicine where Cerbo's custom forms and protocols shine.
Just know that "all-in-one" is a spectrum, not a destination. You'll still end up with a few extra tools.
When Tabflows Makes More Sense
If you've already picked your tools — you love Elation for charting, Hint for billing, Spruce for messaging — and you don't want to blow up your workflow for an all-in-one migration, Tabflows is the play.
We make your existing stack work like it was designed as one system. Without asking you to change a thing.
The Honest Take
Cerbo is a good EHR trying to be a great platform. Tabflows is a different category entirely — we're the glue layer that makes your multi-app clinic feel like a single-app clinic.
If you're already on Cerbo and still drowning in tabs, that's literally what we built this for.
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