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Practice Better has earned a strong reputation among wellness coaches, nutrition professionals, and integrative care teams for its clean interface and straightforward functionality. It’s a convenient way to manage clients, schedule appointments, and simplify administrative tasks.
But for clinics practicing functional or integrative medicine or anyone operating in a direct-pay or membership-based model, Practice Better’s simplicity quickly becomes its limitation. When care involves diagnostic testing, treatment protocols, or longitudinal health tracking, a true EHR becomes essential.
That’s where Cerbo comes in: an all-in-one EHR and practice management system built for real clinical care, not just coaching or client management.
For solo wellness providers focused on lifestyle coaching, Practice Better covers the basics well. It includes booking tools, intake forms, video sessions, and payment processing - all the essentials for small-scale operations. It supports telehealth and wearable integrations (like Fitbit and Oura), but these are geared toward wellness tracking rather than medical-grade documentation.
Limitations become clear when your care model involves labs, prescriptions, or longitudinal care plans.
Practice Better wasn’t designed for regulated medical documentation or multi-provider workflows. While its AI-assisted charting tools are helpful for wellness tracking, they lack the structure and compliance standards needed in clinical environments.
In contrast, Cerbo connects every step of the patient journey, from intake to follow-up, inside one platform built for healthcare.
Practice Better’s note-taking tools are great for short summaries but lack the flexibility and structure clinical practitioners need. Practice Better supports integrations with Rupa, Evexia, and Fullscript, but lacks deeper EHR capabilities like SOAP templates, longitudinal lab tracking, and medication documentation.
Cerbo was designed by clinicians, so charting feels fast, intuitive, and entirely customizable.
Providers can create detailed SOAP notes, embed lab results, track protocols over time, and automate repetitive charting tasks through Chart Parts. Everything syncs across scheduling, billing, and patient communication, eliminating the need to manage disconnected tools.
With Cerbo, all charting, billing, and communication stay connected, removing the need for add-ons or manual syncing.
Practice Better serves general wellness practices well but isn’t built for functional, direct-pay, or specialty clinics. Those workflows require EHR features like lab integrations, prescription management, and patient-specific protocols, all of which Cerbo provides out of the box. Practice Better’s lab integrations remain limited to Rupa and Evexia, which restricts functional testing beyond basic wellness panels.
Cerbo integrates with 60+ specialty and standard labs, including Genova, Evexia, and Quest. It also supports supplement management through Fullscript and Wellevate, allowing providers to recommend and track products directly from the patient chart.
For clinics offering IV therapy or BHRT, Cerbo includes features such as protocol libraries, IV chair scheduling, and inventory tracking with lot and expiry management which are capabilities completely outside Practice Better’s scope. For example, capabilities like inventory tracking, IV chair scheduling, and lot/expiry management are purpose-built for clinical environments, not typically needed in wellness software.
Practice Better includes a client portal for messaging, scheduling, and payments, but doesn’t offer detailed visibility into lab results or clinical treatment plans. It also automates reminders and follow-ups but stops short of offering a patient-facing portal where clients can view lab results or care plans. Today’s patients expect more than a simple text reminder and they want visibility into their care and access to their data.
Cerbo’s patient portal takes engagement further.
Patients can log in to review treatment plans, track labs, message their provider securely, and request refills. This builds long-term trust, saves admin time, and supports outcomes-based care that extends beyond the appointment itself.
Practice Better’s plans start affordably for solo users but increase with higher tiers and added team members.
Cerbo’s pricing is transparent and flexible, with both full-time and part-time provider options. You can review Cerbo’s current plans here.
Practice Better gives wellness professionals an easy way to manage clients and appointments. But for clinics delivering medical or integrative care, its simplicity becomes a ceiling. Without true EHR functionality, lab integrations, or configurable documentation, practices eventually hit the limits of what it can do. Even with recent AI charting updates and wearable sync options, Practice Better remains built for coaching workflows rather than comprehensive patient management.
Cerbo removes that ceiling. It’s a complete EHR and practice management system designed to scale with your clinic combining clinical documentation, lab tracking, supplement management, billing, and patient engagement in one platform.
Where Practice Better focuses on admin convenience, Cerbo empowers better care delivery. It’s the difference between managing a wellness business and running a modern, fully connected healthcare practice.
Discover how Cerbo simplifies the entire patient journey from documentation to follow-up in one connected system. Talk to Sales or try our free EHR demo today.
