Two Tools, Same Ecosystem, Different Jobs
If you're deep in the DPC world, you've probably heard of both Tabflows and Health Compiler. We show up in the same conversations, integrate with the same systems (Elation, Hint, Spruce), and target the same clinics.
So what's the difference? It's pretty simple.
Health Compiler looks at your data and tells you what's happening. Tabflows sits in your browser and makes the work faster while it's happening.
Rearview mirror vs steering wheel. Both useful. Very different.
The short version
- Health Compiler is good at DPC analytics, reporting, dashboards, employer ROI, and understanding practice data.
- Tabflows is better when the team needs to act on patient work in real time across the EHR, billing, messaging, labs, tasks, and follow-ups.
- Choose Health Compiler if your main problem is reporting, performance insight, employer-facing metrics, or population-level analytics.
- Choose Tabflows if your main problem is running the clinic day: who owns the next step, what needs follow-up, and where the patient context lives.
- The real distinction is that Health Compiler helps you understand the practice. Tabflows helps the team operate the practice.
What Health Compiler Does
Health Compiler is a DPC analytics platform. It pulls data from your EHR, billing system, and other tools, then gives you dashboards and reports. Think utilization metrics, engagement tracking, employer-facing ROI reports — the stuff you need when a company asks "is this DPC thing actually working?"
If you're reporting to employer clients or trying to understand population health trends across your panel, Health Compiler is built for that.
What Tabflows Does
We don't do analytics. Not a single dashboard. Zero reports.
What we do is make your daily workflow clearer. Tabflows keeps patient context, tasks, follow-ups, messages, lab work, billing context, and team ownership close to the work while it is happening.
We help the team stop rebuilding context from separate systems and start moving the right next step forward.
The Difference in One Sentence
Health Compiler helps you understand your practice. Tabflows helps you run your practice faster.
Health Compiler
- What it does: Analytics and reporting
- When you use it: Weekly/monthly review
- Output: Dashboards, reports, insights
- Best for: Employer reporting, population health
Tabflows
- What it does: Shared workflow and AI layer for clinic operations
- When you use it: Every patient, all day
- Output: Patient context, tasks, owners, follow-ups, drafted replies, and next steps
- Best for: Daily clinic follow-through across tools
- Price: Core is free forever; Patient Assist and Smart Clinic scale from there
Do You Need Both?
Maybe. If you're a DPC clinic with employer contracts, Health Compiler gives you the reporting layer those clients expect. And Tabflows gives your clinical team the speed layer they need to not lose their minds switching between apps.
They don't overlap much. Health Compiler is the reporting layer. Tabflows is the daily operating layer. Different layers of the same stack.
The Bottom Line
If your problem is "I need to prove ROI to my employer clients" — Health Compiler.
If your problem is "my staff keeps losing the next step between six systems" - that's our whole thing.
If both problems sound familiar, use both. We won't be jealous.