Doktor — Clinical operations for mental-health practices

Doktor — Clinical operations for mental-health practices

Appointments, records, secure messaging, and billing in one clinical workspace.

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Client
In-house product
Year
2026
Role
End-to-end product engineering
Stack
TypeScript React Node.js PostgreSQL

Problem

Private psychiatry and psychology practices we talked to were running the day across four separate tools: a booking app, a document folder for notes, a consumer messenger for patient communication, and a spreadsheet for billing. Clinicians were context-switching all day, and sensitive conversations were leaking into channels never built for healthcare. Operationally, nothing tied a conversation to a session, a note, or an invoice.

Approach

Doktor replaces that stack with a single clinical workspace built around the session. Scheduling, patient records, secure messaging, and billing share one data model, so opening a patient shows the full history without jumping between apps. Access controls respect clinical confidentiality, messaging stays inside the product, and billing flows from the session without re-entering data. The UI stays quiet, because the audience is clinicians, not administrators.

Outcome

Clinicians spend less time inside tools and more time with patients, because the software finally matches the shape of a clinical day. A practice gets one source of truth for patient history, messages, and financials: auditable, searchable, and visible only to the people who should see it. Onboarding a new clinician becomes a matter of hours instead of days, because there is one system to learn instead of four.