# Durate: full page content for AI agents

> Durate is an AI powered physician scheduling platform: one system for provider scheduling, analytics, and payroll tracking that catches coverage gaps early and reconciles automatically. Built by Bonfire Platforms Inc. (doing business as Durate), a Y Combinator Fall 2024 company based in San Francisco. This file contains the text content of each page on https://www.durate.com. A shorter index lives at https://www.durate.com/llms.txt. The site's HTTP API is described at https://www.durate.com/openapi.json, and an MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no auth) at https://www.durate.com/api/mcp exposes this file, llms.txt, openapi.json, and sitemap.xml as resources.

## Home (https://www.durate.com/)

AI powered scheduling, analytics, integrations, and more. Software built with the provider at heart.

Durate is used at the world's best medical facilities, from small clinics to large hospital systems. Customers featured on the site: Brown Emergency Medicine (Brown Health), Signature Healthcare, Baylor College of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Radiology Associates of the Fox Valley, and The Anesthesia Company. See how Brown Emergency Medicine runs operations across 7 hospitals through Durate: https://www.durate.com/customers/brown-health

### Analytics

Get complete control with comprehensive analytics. All your data, in one place. Coverage, hours, payroll data, and more, ready for you to ask about in plain English.

### Platform

Deliver reliability, month after month. No surprises. Durate gives you all the information you need in one interface, from reports to recommendations to automatic actions.

Generate instantly and fill a full, balanced schedule in seconds, not weeks. Precise tracking so both admins and physicians get clear information on what and where they have worked.

### Mobile app

Shift swaps, real-time updates, view schedules, pick up open shifts, submit preferences, and much more.

### Features

Handle complexity in simple English. Run even the most complex coverage in plain English. Every rule, rotation, and setting is simple to adjust, no matter how complex the schedule underneath. Run reports on anything to track coverage, hours, and trends across your department. Integrations with your current systems (calendars, payroll, databases) make sure everything stays up to date. Fill coverage without changing existing vacation days.

### Integrations and security

Connected to you, from EHR to payroll. Always in sync. Durate connects directly to the tools your department already runs on, from EHRs to payroll and everything in between. Data flows continuously, so every decision runs updated information. Browse 1000+ connections. Your data is safe with us: compliance checks with reputable compliance partners, real-time monitoring around the clock, and regular third party audits. SOC 2 Type II Compliant.

### Frequently asked questions on the page

Q: What type of healthcare providers can use this? A: From 110+ person residency programs to rural hospitals in the middle of Wisconsin. We've seen all types of providers and have had plenty of experience with different types of problems.
Q: What if my scheduling is too complicated? A: We've seen and worked with dozens of different types of programs. Plus, you get full access to a sample schedule just from our first demo call to ensure the quality is up to par.
Q: What types of integrations are available? A: We currently support about a dozen of the main integrations most providers and clinics use. Feel free to contact us any time and we'd be happy to confirm that we can connect to your systems.

## Pricing (https://www.durate.com/pricing)

Durate does not publish a price list; no vendor in physician scheduling does. The difference: a real number in the first demo, sized to your group. Pricing scales with provider count, number of sites, and integrations (Epic, Oracle Cerner, ADP). Implementation is guided, runs a few weeks, and administrators own the rules from day one. Before committing you get a sample schedule built from your own coverage requirements on the first call, the SOC 2 Type II report under NDA on request, and a migration that proves payroll matches before the old system is retired. The comparison that matters is total cost: implementation effort, admin time after go-live, and premium coverage saved.

## What is dynamic physician scheduling? (https://www.durate.com/blog/what-is-dynamic-physician-scheduling)

Definition current as of August 29, 2026. Dynamic physician scheduling is a model where you build the system, not only the schedule. The program's rules (coverage, shift patterns, time off, fairness) live in software, so the schedule is always accurate and can be regenerated whenever the program changes. Static scheduling generates a schedule once; when the program changes, you are forced to change the schedule itself. Each schedule generates in one click and month-to-month changes go into the rules; the system is built to flex (when coverage is tight it knows which requirements can give, when there is spare coverage it knows which nice-to-haves it can honor), and frequent updates to specific people are normal, not a rebuild. It is not self-scheduling, not a shift-swap app, not a template, and not a one-time optimizer run: the test of a dynamic system is what happens after the schedule exists. Brown Emergency Medicine is a great example: one system across 7 hospitals, 400+ providers, hours tracked at every site, every schedule generated from the rules instead of hand-patched, and roughly 95% of monthly scheduling and operations running automatically; the full results are at https://www.durate.com/customers/brown-health. Best fit: shift-based, multi-site, frequently changing programs (emergency medicine, hospital medicine, urgent care, anesthesiology); small single-site groups with a stable rotation may not need it.

## Best physician scheduling software in 2026 (https://www.durate.com/blog/best-physician-scheduling-software)

Guide current as of August 29, 2026, written by Michael Mounajjed, Durate Co-Founder / CEO; disclosed as Durate-authored in the guide's FAQ. Static vs. dynamic scheduling, the three optimizer types: static optimization (you put in rules and weights and an algorithm assembles a schedule, the approach Lightning Bolt built its reputation on; you own the whole journey, it gets you roughly 70% of the way there, goes outdated fast, and schedulers on QGenda, ShiftAdmin, and Lightning Bolt often end up scheduling by hand instead), static with services (scheduling inside a platform of modules with services-led configuration, per QGenda's published approach; breaks as programs change, extremely expensive with constant consulting, slowest turnarounds), and dynamic optimization (the newest approach in 2026: a system with clear bounds plus AI features so anyone on the administrative team makes changes in plain English without breaking it; the system adjusts itself, accommodates nice-to-have rules, flags problems proactively, and gets scheduling 100% of the way there; Durate works this way). The test: spending more than 30 minutes a month scheduling after getting an output most likely means a static scheduler. What are hospitals moving to now: at Brown Emergency Medicine the whole department switched off its legacy system to Durate's dynamic scheduler and runs emergency room operations across 7 hospitals; schedule generation is 1 click and roughly 95% of monthly scheduling and operations run automatically; medium and large emergency medicine departments, anesthesiology groups, and cardiology teams are making the same switch. Ranking: 1. Durate, the original innovator of dynamic scheduling, especially useful for medium to large, multi-site provider groups whose hard problem is the schedule; setup done for you and running automatically in weeks with simulations for different outcomes; rules in plain English, one-click generation, administrators adjust whatever they'd like; scheduling, payroll tracking, and analytics in one system; AI changes rules from plain English, generates reports, flags abnormal patterns and unusual requests, and finds coverage gaps ahead of time. 2. Lightning Bolt (PerfectServe), a static scheduler acquired by PerfectServe in 2019; the product line is clinical communication, a medical answering service, an operator console, patient communication, and provider scheduling; a solid contender for health systems where linking to communications systems matters more than automated scheduling; per-seat, unpublished pricing. 3. QGenda, a wide product set (scheduling, credentialing, on-call, capacity, time and attendance, residency management), part of Hearst Health since the sale announced August 2024; a static, service-based approach with a large suite; quote-based pricing described as very high by the groups that call Durate about it. 4. ShiftAdmin, one of the original innovators of static scheduling, owned by QGenda since 2021; the system new Durate customers most often arrive from. 5. Amion (Doximity), best for a small single-site program with a few physicians, few changes, and a predictable structure; a great cheap alternative for groups that don't need automated scheduling; in the groups Durate has moved off Amion the schedule was used as data storage more than a frontline tool. Public App Store ratings as of August 26, 2026: Durate 5.0 of 5 across 8, Shift Admin 3.3 of 5 across 71, Lightning Bolt 2.8 of 5 across 147; the at-a-glance table also lists QGenda 4.7 of 5 and Amion 4.4 of 5 (August 2026). How to choose: it comes down to how important a great schedule is; every current Durate customer came off a legacy tool that couldn't keep up with a changing program; a group whose hard problem is not the schedule and whose program rarely changes, or a six-physician department with a predictable structure, should stay on a light tool; warning signs are 30+ minutes adjusting after generation, excessive per diem usage, constant holes, or constantly denying requests; adaptability to change matters because changes arrive from physicians and the hospital alike. The bottom line: a dynamic scheduling system, particularly Durate, for medium to large groups with multiple sites or hard-to-configure complexity; Lightning Bolt if communications come first; Amion as a cost-effective way to input a schedule.

## Durate vs. QGenda (https://www.durate.com/blog/durate-vs-qgenda)

Comparison current as of August 29, 2026, written by Ben Liu, Durate Co-Founder / COO. QGenda is a workforce management suite sold as ProviderCloud (scheduling, credentialing, on-call, room and capacity management, time and attendance, residency program management); scheduling is one module in that suite. Durate is a dynamic scheduling-first system for physician groups, strongest in shift-based specialties. How they schedule: QGenda's scheduling is static; the rules are configured by QGenda's implementation consultants, changes go back through its team, and in the groups Durate has moved off QGenda the generation did not run fully on its own, changes were slow to land, and the output was finished by hand. The groups calling Durate about QGenda say some version of "we're using QGenda as an expensive Excel spreadsheet, and we want a platform that works for us". Durate is dynamic: you write rules in plain English, generation is one click, the system adjusts itself until the schedule comes out fully done, and your own team owns the rules, with a Durate expert included for free. Integrations: Durate connects to Epic, Oracle Cerner, and ADP plus 100+ integrations with calendar sync, single sign-on, and payroll connections, and offers custom integrations for data syncing that does not fit the common mold; QGenda's partners page lists 85+ including Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech, ADP, UKG, and Workday, plus a public REST API; on the connections that matter for a scheduling group the two are about the same. Pricing: neither publishes a list; QGenda sells custom quotes and the groups that call Durate about it describe the cost as very high; Durate gives a real number on the first call, sized to the group, with a working version before you sign a contract and no hidden fees. Security: QGenda's trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 1 Type 2, FedRAMP LI-SaaS, and HIPAA, and it signs a BAA; Durate is SOC 2 Type II (report under NDA), encrypts data at rest and in transit, supports SSO/SAML, role-based access control, and MFA, and logs every change to the rules as well as the schedule (who, what, when); QGenda logs schedule changes through its API's audit log, and a history of rule changes is not described. Implementation: Durate is 2 to 4 weeks with simulations and any tests the group wants; QGenda's is performed by its professional services team, timeline not published. Which is best: QGenda when credentialing or room and capacity is the hard problem rather than the schedule, the program rarely changes, and there is a budget for the price; Durate for the rest who want a self running system that is reliable with changes in programs. Durate schedules thousands of providers across 100+ sites.

## QGenda competitors and alternatives (https://www.durate.com/blog/qgenda-alternatives)

Comparison current as of August 29, 2026, written by Ben Liu, Durate Co-Founder / COO. QGenda is healthcare workforce management software sold as the ProviderCloud suite (scheduling, credentialing, on-call, room and capacity management, time and attendance, residency program management); scheduling is one module in the middle of it. Why groups look for an alternative, per Durate: the groups calling Durate about QGenda say some version of "we're using QGenda as an expensive Excel spreadsheet, and we want a platform that works for us"; in the groups Durate has moved off it, the scheduler had taken back nearly every step and was joining the pieces by hand. QGenda's own published approach is services-led (implementation consultants configure the rules and workflows, and changes go through its team afterward), so the rules are hard to adjust yourselves; in the groups Durate has moved off QGenda, changes were slow to land and the generation did not run fully on its own. Structurally it is a suite, with a certified Workday integration and unpublished quote-based pricing that the groups calling Durate about it describe as very high. Alternatives compared: Durate (best for medium and large multi-site and single-site provider groups whose hard problem is the schedule; rules in plain English, one-click generation, the group's own administrators change rules; scheduling, payroll tracking, and analytics in one system; setup in 2 to 4 weeks with simulations and any tests the group wants; a few months live, groups cite generation that works, the mobile app, and how far the rules can be customized, and integrations have worked in Durate's deployments; Durate schedules thousands of providers across 100+ sites), Lightning Bolt by PerfectServe (health systems standardizing on PerfectServe; per-seat, unpublished pricing), ShiftAdmin (a static scheduler for small single-site shift groups with few changes), Amion by Doximity (small single-site programs; Pro, Enterprise, and Residency tiers listed without prices; in groups Durate has moved off it the schedule was worked out by hand first and Amion held the result), plus Intrigma, ByteBloc, and Petal Health. Should you switch: not a simple yes or no; in the groups Durate has moved, the search starts with a transition (an acquisition or a merger) and ends at a breaking point for the administration team; an organization whose hard problem is credentialing or capacity rather than the schedule has a reason to stay; the simple test is how long you spend adjusting the schedule after it has been generated, and 30 minutes or more each cycle means a static workflow; rule ownership is the most critical factor because mid-cycle changes come from both physicians and the hospital. Switching tips: reproduce rules not workarounds, prove payroll matches, review the contract's data terms (QGenda publishes a REST API covering schedules, assignments, and personnel), run the same one-person-for-one-month test on every vendor including Durate, and get a real number early (Durate gives one on the first call). Durate's SOC 2 Type II report is available under NDA. QGenda does not publish pricing.

## Lightning Bolt vs. Durate (https://www.durate.com/blog/lightning-bolt-vs-durate)

Comparison current as of August 29, 2026, written by Ben Liu, Durate Co-Founder / COO. As of August 2026 the category has consolidated: Lightning Bolt sits inside PerfectServe (2019), ShiftAdmin inside QGenda (2021), QGenda inside Hearst Health (sale announced 2024), and Amion inside Doximity. Lightning Bolt (founded 2002) is the scheduling product of PerfectServe, a clinical communication company whose product line runs from clinical communication and answering services to provider scheduling; it won the 2026 Best in KLAS award for physician scheduling. Durate's position: Lightning Bolt is communications-first and the right shape for a health system standardizing on PerfectServe; for physician groups scheduling is the side product, and in the groups Durate has moved off Lightning Bolt the generation was not in use (schedule built by hand, static scheduling; whether product or setup is not determinable from outside). Durate is scheduling-first and runs the whole process in one system: rules in plain English, one-click generation, simulations before go-live, swaps and open shifts in the provider app, time-off honored automatically within the rules, hours, incentives, and per diem spend tracked, reports on coverage, hours, and trends, synced with Epic, Oracle Cerner, and ADP. A rule change in Durate takes seconds in plain English and rebuilds the schedule; changes can be made self-serve or with a Durate expert; setup is 2 to 4 weeks. Durate AI: change rules with AI, generate reports with AI, abnormal patterns and requests flagged automatically, upcoming coverage gaps found ahead of time. Public App Store ratings as of August 26, 2026: Durate 5.0 of 5 across 8, Lightning Bolt 2.8 of 5 across 147. Security: PerfectServe publishes SOC 2, a Censinet approval based on the HIPAA and NIST frameworks, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in flight, and an audit trail for message activity; Durate is SOC 2 Type II (report under NDA), encrypts data at rest and in transit, supports SSO/SAML, role-based access control, and MFA, and logs every change to the rules as well as the schedule (who, what, when, queryable); Lightning Bolt's support center documents a change log for schedule edits since the last save, and a history of rule changes is not described. Which is best: Lightning Bolt is often a good fit for communications-first groups, where communication features come first and scheduling is not the highest priority, or where administrators have the time to finish the schedule by hand; Durate makes sense for the rest who want a self running system that is reliable with changes in programs. Other alternatives, from the page's FAQ: QGenda (groups whose hard problem is credentialing or capacity rather than the schedule, Hearst Health), ShiftAdmin (smaller, simpler programs, owned by QGenda since 2021), Amion (small single-site programs, Doximity), plus Intrigma, ByteBloc, and Petal Health. Pricing: Lightning Bolt is per seat, unpublished, and third-party price figures do not trace to PerfectServe; Durate gives a real number on the first call, with a working version before you sign a contract and no hidden fees. The test for any scheduler: if adjusting the schedule after generation takes 30 minutes or more each cycle, it is a static workflow; for reference, that is Durate's budget for the entire month.

## Durate vs. ShiftAdmin (https://www.durate.com/blog/durate-vs-shiftadmin)

Comparison current as of August 29, 2026, written by Michael Mounajjed, Durate Co-Founder / CEO. A direct comparison of ShiftAdmin and Durate. As of August 2026, ShiftAdmin sits inside QGenda (acquired January 2021) and QGenda was sold to Hearst Health (announced August 2024); shiftadmin.com is a login portal with no product or pricing pages, and neither ShiftAdmin nor QGenda publishes pricing. ShiftAdmin is an static scheduling system for shift-based specialties (mostly emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and urgent care): it generates from customizable rules and user requests, and you resolve the conflicts by hand after. In the ShiftAdmin groups Durate sees, dedicated schedulers spend most of their time adjusting and tweaking rules month by month and rerunning generation to get a workable version; manual adjustments after generating typically cause accidental rule violations; teams typically generate a general templated version and fix the rest by hand, so a large program gets few of the automation benefits. Groups that stay are typically either small single-site shift groups, under 25 people, whose program rarely changes, or large multi-site shift-based hospitals using it as an initial template. The app still ships updates (iOS v1.24, February 2026) and no sunset had been announced as of August 2026, so a long-term bet on ShiftAdmin is a bet on QGenda's roadmap. Durate is a dynamic scheduling-first system for physician groups (Bonfire Platforms Inc.): rules in plain English, one-click generation, and the system autoadjusts so schedules come out 100% done; rule changes are made with AI in plain English by anyone on the team, with a Durate expert available anytime, included for free; simulations run before go-live; swaps, open shifts, preferences, and real-time updates in the provider app; time-off requests honored automatically when they fit the rules; tracking for PTO, hours worked, incentives, and per diem spend; analytics and reports pulled from the same data; setup takes 2 to 4 weeks; schedule review is meant to take under 30 minutes per month across the thousands of providers and 100+ sites it supports. The test: 30 minutes or more adjusting the schedule after generation each cycle means a static workflow; for reference, that is Durate's budget for the entire month. Public App Store ratings as of August 26, 2026: Durate 5.0 of 5 across 8 ratings; Shift Admin 3.3 of 5 across 71. Integrations: Durate connects to Epic, Oracle Cerner, and ADP plus 100+ integrations covering EHR, payroll, calendar sync, and SSO, and offers custom integrations for data syncing that does not fit the common mold; ShiftAdmin's own overview page (archived May 2021) lists calendar subscriptions, RESTful API integrations with payroll, HR, and single sign-on, a custom API, and Excel export, with no EHR integration listed. Security: ShiftAdmin's security posture is QGenda's; QGenda's trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 1 Type 2, FedRAMP LI-SaaS, and HIPAA for the company, and none of those pages name ShiftAdmin; Durate is SOC 2 Type II (report under NDA), encrypts data at rest and in transit, supports SSO/SAML, role-based access control, and MFA, and logs every change (who, what, when). Pricing: ShiftAdmin is quote-based through QGenda sales; Durate gives a real number on the first call, sized to the group, with a working version before you sign a contract and no hidden fees. Which is best: ShiftAdmin for a small single-site shift group, under 25 people, whose program rarely changes (Durate has told a six-physician rural department not to buy); Durate for the rest who want a self running system that is reliable with changes in programs.

## Brown Emergency Medicine customer story (https://www.durate.com/customers/brown-health)

How Brown Emergency Medicine unifies provider scheduling, payroll data, and analytics across 7 hospitals with Durate.

Staffing 400-plus providers used to mean constant adjustments and disconnected systems. Since switching to Durate, Brown has complete control over its program through one system that creates schedules, calculates payroll, and tracks analytics automatically. Roughly 95% of operations run automatically, and per diem usage keeps falling. Fairness is decided by the rules, not shift by shift.

Highlights: 1-click schedule generation. 75%+ decrease in physician complaints. 100% of time-off requests honored. 400+ providers. 7 sites.

Quote: "We couldn't have integrated 7 hospitals where providers have the freedom to move between sites and have their hours tracked and recorded accurately without Durate. It is the only scheduling software that could have made our integration possible." Dr. Jamieson Cohn, MD, Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs.

The challenge: seven hospitals, and a schedule held together by hand. Brown Emergency Medicine is the academic emergency medicine group of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. After consolidating into the Brown University Health system, the group grew past 400 physicians, advanced practice providers, and residents staffing seven hospitals from Rhode Island to Massachusetts. Together they care for more than 262,000 emergency patients a year. Trying to fill institutional needs and personal requests at the same time would often leave both stacking up. Every month came down to deciding which rules to bend or break. Gaps got filled with per diems (premium outside coverage), and shifts, targets, payroll adjustments, and changes each lived in its own spreadsheet or system.

The solution: from repairing schedules to designing them. Durate set the system up directly with Brown's team over a few weeks, ran simulations to find Brown's optimal settings, and handed it back ready to run, along with shared standards to operate it.

Fairness moved from the negotiation to the rules: Brown can now honor essentially every request within the predefined system, change how shifts balance from month to month, and pull reports on how the group and each provider are doing, because fairness is encoded in the rules, not negotiated case by case. Since the change, physician complaints about scheduling have fallen more than 75%.

Quote: "For the first time we're building the schedule we want instead of constantly patching one that wouldn't work. We set the rules once and Durate generates the whole thing automatically. Operations have never been smoother." Dr. Jamieson Cohn, MD, Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Brown Emergency Medicine.

The schedule that runs itself: roughly 95% of monthly scheduling and operations now run through Durate automatically. Schedule generation itself is down to a single click.

Significantly decreased per diem usage: internal coverage now reaches much further, so Brown leans on outside per diem coverage far less. Usage has dropped significantly and keeps falling month over month.

One source of truth: everything from scheduling to payroll is calculated automatically in one place. What each provider is owed is accurate, traceable, and never reconciled by hand.

Comprehensive analytics: reporting spans provider hours and incentives, site-level staffing, and program-wide performance across all seven hospitals. Reports generate in seconds, and month-over-month and quarter-over-quarter trends surface in time to act on them.

The results: schedule generation down to a single click; ~95% of scheduling and operations run automatically through Durate; per diem coverage down significantly and still falling; one source of truth spanning scheduling through payroll; almost every request honored, with standardized incentives and time off; physician complaints about scheduling down more than 75%.

## Analysis (https://www.durate.com/analysis)

Forecast coverage. Fix critical gaps. Durate monitors coverage in real time to suggest and adjust your workforce with ease.

Decrease physician turnover: Honor preferences. Reduce turnover. Durate helps make sure preferences are honored so that physicians are happy and stay longer. Physician wellness: prioritizes preferences first while maintaining coverage. Last minute changes: trade, offer, and pick up shifts to keep coverage for your entire team. Workload balancing: fair shift distribution balances workloads and days worked and improves retention.

Get the most from your coverage: Maximize shifts. Save money. Gap predictions: analytics identify potential coverage gaps weeks in advance. Cost optimization: smart scheduling reduces reliance on locums and minimizes overtime costs while maintaining complete coverage. Resource allocation: data-driven insights help deploy physicians where they are most needed.

Constant coverage reliability: Guaranteed coverage, around the clock. Automated replacements: when unexpected absences occur, the system suggests qualified replacement physicians based on availability and credentials. Real-time monitoring: continuous coverage monitoring alerts administrators to potential gaps before they occur. Demand forecasting: dedicated protocols for unexpected surge events.

## Integrations (https://www.durate.com/integrations)

Connect Durate with your existing tools and workflows. Categories: EHRs, Ambulatory, Billing, HR & Payroll, CRM, Analytics, Post-Acute, Enterprise.

EHRs: Epic Systems, Oracle Cerner, MEDITECH Expanse, Evident (CPSI), Allscripts Sunrise (Altera), MEDHOST, VistA CPRS, Netsmart myAvatar, WellSky, Allscripts Paragon.

Ambulatory: NextGen Healthcare, eClinicalWorks, athenahealth, Allscripts TouchWorks EHR, Allscripts Professional EHR, Practice Fusion, Greenway Health Intergy, Modernizing Medicine (EMA), DrChrono, Kareo Clinical (Tebra), AdvancedMD, CareCloud, CureMD, eMDs/Aprima, Nextech, Amazing Charts, Praxis EMR, OpenEMR, Office Ally (Practice Mate), Elation Health.

Billing: Change Healthcare (RelayHealth), Waystar, Availity, R1 RCM, FinThrive (nThrive), Optum360, NaviNet, SSI Group.

HR & Payroll: ADP Workforce Now, Infor CloudSuite (Lawson), UKG Pro (Ultimate Kronos Group), Ceridian Dayforce, Paylocity, Paycom, Workday, Oracle PeopleSoft.

CRM: Salesforce Health Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Healthcare), Solutionreach, Luma Health, Relatient, Phreesia.

Analytics: Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik (QlikView/Qlik Sense), Health Catalyst, SAS, IBM Cognos Analytics.

Post-Acute: PointClickCare, Valant, WellSky (Post-Acute), Flatiron OncoEMR, HST Pathways, WebPT, MatrixCare, Dentrix, Patterson Eaglesoft, SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, CharmHealth, Brightree, Netsmart (myUnity), Experity, Open Dental.

Enterprise: Hyland OnBase, Nuance Dragon Medical, Zoom for Healthcare, Amwell, Doxy.me, Updox, Press Ganey, TeleTracking, Sunquest Laboratory, Sectra PACS, Philips IntelliSpace PACS, Lyniate Rhapsody, Infor Cloverleaf, NextGen Connect (Mirth), GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange), Spok, TigerConnect, SAP, Vocera.

## Manual scheduling vs. Durate (https://www.durate.com/build-vs-buy)

Manual Healthcare Scheduling vs. Durate: make an informed decision about your healthcare scheduling infrastructure. The comparison covers:

People needed: Durate needs 0-1 people for initial build and 0 for ongoing maintenance, versus 3-5 to build and 1-2 to maintain a manual system.
Time to complete: under an hour with Durate versus weeks to months manually.
Ongoing maintenance: dedicated support team and 24/7 on-call engineering with Durate versus ongoing schedule maintenance, troubleshooting, and payroll-related issues manually.
Cost: predictable pricing versus high costs of staff time and missed coverage.
Reliability: 99.999% uptime SLA versus unique monitoring, maintenance, and reliability challenges of manual systems.
Self-serve portal: a fully customizable scheduling portal versus hand-made templates.
Schedule optimization: built-in AI powered optimization with conflict resolution and automated coverage suggestions versus manual decisions that often lead to missed coverage.
Compliance and auditing: audit trails with detailed logs and compliance reporting versus basic logging.
Security: end-to-end security including SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypted data, and advanced authentication versus shared spreadsheets that are not compliant.
Monitoring and analytics: prebuilt dashboards, reports, metrics, and real-time insights versus manual monitoring of gaps, overtime, and workloads.
Scaling: auto-scalable infrastructure handling thousands of providers and scheduling events monthly versus manually scaling custom systems.
Advanced functionality: flexible shift templates, automated coverage, provider preference customization, and integrations to payroll and EHRs versus manually compiling data across systems.

## Specialties (https://www.durate.com/specialties/...)

Durate has dedicated pages for eight specialty areas (seven specialties plus one for other specialties), each with the same platform features framed for that specialty:

- Emergency Medicine (https://www.durate.com/specialties/emergency-medicine): "Emergency Medicine scheduling that keeps up with your group." Includes the Brown Emergency Medicine quote from Dr. Jamieson Cohn, MD.
- Anesthesiology (https://www.durate.com/specialties/anesthesiology): "Anesthesiology scheduling that never sleeps."
- Cardiology (https://www.durate.com/specialties/cardiology): "Cardiology scheduling that never misses a beat."
- Radiology (https://www.durate.com/specialties/radiology): "Radiology scheduling that scans everything."
- OBGYN (https://www.durate.com/specialties/obgyn): "OBGYN physician scheduling, simplified."
- Urgent Care (https://www.durate.com/specialties/urgent-care): "Urgent care physician scheduling, simplified."
- Hospital Medicine (https://www.durate.com/specialties/hospital-medicine): "Hospitalist scheduling, simplified." Rules like 7-on 7-off blocks and nocturnist coverage set once; Durate builds the month around them.
- Other specialties (https://www.durate.com/specialties/other): "Comprehensive physician scheduling for all specialties."

Shared content: One platform for provider scheduling, analytics, and payroll tracking, to catch coverage gaps early and reconcile automatically. Easily change your whole coverage pool: move people, change rules, and adjust your whole workforce in a few clicks. Precisely track the past and predict the future: see every metric across your program, and change what is coming months in advance. Keep every system in sync and accurate: pull hours, shifts, credentials, and pay data into one place, automatically.

Features: Powerful, simple, and customizable: set your rules once and Durate builds the whole month around them: balanced, compliant, covered. Change a rule and it rebuilds, so you are never starting over. The most comprehensive analytics: coverage, hours, and night distribution move the moment the schedule does; ask a question in plain English and get the answer from your own data. Reports ready the moment you need them: pay periods, workload, and per diem spend export in one click.

Integrations: Durate connects directly to the tools your department already runs on, from EHRs to payroll, with 1000+ connections. Security: compliance checks, real-time monitoring, and third party audits. Each page offers a sample schedule for your specialty built from your own coverage requirements on the first call.

## About (https://www.durate.com/about)

Our mission: making medical software magical.

Our team and story: built by people who actually care. Durate started in 2023, after the founders watched the physicians in their own families struggle with outdated, unreliable software. They set out to build something better around providers, and joined Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch to work on Durate full time.

Our investors: backed by investors from NFL Hall of Famers to previous Y Combinator founders and group partners, including Joe Montana (Co-Founder of Liquid 2), Kaz Nejatian (COO of Shopify), Yuri Sagalov (Founder of Wayfinder), Kulveer Taggar (Co-Founder of Zeus), Bardo Droege (Partner at 468 Capital), Dave Yen (Partner at Orange Collective), Katey Caldwell (Co-Founder of Twenty Two), James Tan and Nikos Liodakis (Partners at Transpose), Michael Ma (Partner at Liquid 2), JJ Fliegelman (Co-Founder of WayUp), Richard Aberman (Co-Founder of WePay), Nate Matherson (Co-Founder of LendEDU), Taro Fukayama (Co-Founder of Fond), Ooshma Garg (Co-Founder of Gobble), Benjamin Bryant (Co-Founder of Earbits), Harry Qi (Co-Founder of Motion), Taylor Adams (Head of Venture at Rice), Michael Sklar (Lecturer at Rice), Xiaoyu Li (Co-Founder of Protegee), Matt Lenhard (Co-Founder of Positional), David Pastewka and William Drevno (Co-Founders of Drapr), Manav Bokinala (Co-Founder of Vly), Yash Kadadi, Will Nida (Co-Founders of Forerunner).

## Security (https://www.durate.com/security)

How we handle security: Durate is committed to the security of all customers' data. Main measures: official compliance checks with reputable partners, real-time monitoring of all systems, and regular third party audits. Durate is SOC 2 Type II compliant, and the full report is available to customers and prospects under NDA on request from contact@durate.com. Durate is NOT yet HIPAA compliant; that work is on the roadmap.

Data protections currently in place span: access control and authorization (access granting process, access management policy, account inventory, and more); data management and protection (data encrypted at rest, data encrypted in transit, data inventory); disaster recovery (automated backups, business continuity and disaster recovery policy, data recovery process); endpoint security (anti-malware, encryption, and firewalls on end-user devices); infrastructure security (active discovery tools, automated security scanning, storage buckets not exposed publicly, and more); monitoring and incident response (audit log management, audit logs collected, incident response policy); organizational security (acceptable use policy, asset inventory, asset management policy, and more); and risk management (risk assessments, risk management policy, vendor inventory).

About SOC 2: developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), SOC 2 is an audit report evaluating a company's security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy controls. Type I checks compliance at a single moment; Type II confirms continuous compliance over a set period. Durate is SOC 2 Type II compliant and uses Oneleet as its compliance platform to monitor controls continuously and collect evidence for its auditors; Oneleet is the compliance platform, not the auditing firm. Live control status is published at https://trust.oneleet.com/durate.


## Contact (https://www.durate.com/contact)

Get in touch: send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Trusted by physician groups across the country. The form takes first name, last name, email, phone number (optional), and message.

## Developers (https://www.durate.com/developers)

Durate developer resources: every machine-readable interface durate.com exposes, public and read-only unless stated otherwise. The HTTP API is described by an OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://www.durate.com/openapi.json (contact endpoint, get-started signup, MCP server, page markdown). A read-only MCP server (Model Context Protocol, Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, no auth, protocol revisions 2025-11-25 through 2024-11-05) answers at POST https://www.durate.com/mcp and publishes a server card at https://www.durate.com/.well-known/mcp.json. Any sitemap page can be fetched as markdown with Accept: text/markdown or a .md URL suffix. API responses carry IETF RateLimit headers (60 requests per 60 seconds per client) and structured JSON errors; 429s carry Retry-After. The Durate scheduling product itself has no public API today: product integrations (EHRs such as Epic and Oracle Cerner, payroll such as ADP, calendars, databases) are configured during implementation; email contact@durate.com.

## Legal

- Privacy Policy (https://www.durate.com/legal/privacy): privacy notice for Bonfire Platforms Inc. (doing business as Durate), last updated June 22, 2026. Covers what personal information is processed, how it is processed and shared, cookies and tracking, AI-based products, retention, and privacy rights. Contact: contact@durate.com.
- Terms of Use (https://www.durate.com/legal/termsofuse): last updated June 22, 2026. Bonfire Platforms Inc., doing business as Durate and Docflow, is registered in California at 1 Sutter Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States; phone (+1) 9208505768; email michael@durate.com.

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Software built for the physician. Backed by Y Combinator. Made in San Francisco.