Bridge

What Bridge does

Bridge (Bridge Patient Portal Inc.) is a private healthcare technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that sells BridgeInteract, an ONC-certified, FHIR-based patient engagement platform designed to consolidate fragmented patient-facing tools into a single mobile-first "digital front door" for healthcare provider organizations. The platform is modular, comprising Bridge Portal (certified patient portal), Bridge Pay, Bridge Scheduling, Bridge Virtual Care (Zoom for Healthcare telehealth), Bridge Communication (secure messaging), Bridge Mobile (client-branded mobile app), Bridge Intake, Bridge Tasking, and Bridge Interface (EHR integration services); in mid-2026 the company added a Patient Access and Revenue Suite with loginless access, OCR-based insurance card capture, automated EHR data write-back, and embedded digital payments.

Bridge integrates bi-directionally with a broad range of EHR and practice-management systems — Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, Greenway, and X-Link-based systems — and exposes an ONC-certified standardized API that supports 21st Century Cures Act patient access requirements. The platform is positioned as a direct, vendor-neutral replacement for stacks of point solutions, with claimed cost-economics of up to 65% vendor license fee consolidation and 75%+ monthly license savings, and is marketed against legacy visit-centric incumbents like Phreesia. Customers include Health by Design, Esse Health, Noran Neurology, Pediatric Associates, WESTMED Medical Group, and white-label partner Office Practicum.

Bridge generates revenue primarily through SaaS subscription licensing of BridgeInteract, supplemented by implementation, training, and ongoing professional services; pricing is quote-based, annually billed, and tailored to organization size and scope. The go-to-market is a direct enterprise field-sales motion targeting independent clinics, large multi-specialty organizations (MSOs), and accountable care organizations (ACOs), augmented by content-led SEO and comparison marketing. The company is founder-owned, with no disclosed external parent or institutional funding, and holds ONC Health IT, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and PIPEDA certifications. Note: aggregated inputs also reference a Stripe acquisition of a "Bridge" entity on 2025-05-08 for stablecoin infrastructure; that transaction appears to refer to a separate, stablecoin-focused company that shares the Bridge name and is not the healthcare patient-portal business described above.

Name

Bridge

Legal name

Bridge Patient Portal Inc.

Website

https://bridgeinteract.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bridge (Bridge Patient Portal Inc.) sells BridgeInteract, an ONC-certified, FHIR-based patient engagement platform that unifies intake, scheduling, payments, messaging, telehealth, and portal access for healthcare provider organizations including independent clinics, MSOs, and ACOs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Patient Engagement Software

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Portals & Self-Service Access (HLACAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Care Navigation, Referral & Digital Front Door Platforms (HLALABAH), Scheduling, Intake & Patient Portal Platforms (HLALAKAB), Patient Financial Engagement (Estimates, Billing Presentment, Payments) (HLACAEAI), Patient Engagement, Education & Messaging Platforms (portal/CRM integrated) (HLALABAJ)

Keywords

• Patient engagement platform
• Healthcare patient portal
• EHR integration software
• Patient intake automation
• Digital front door healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing (SaaS): BridgeInteract operates as a cloud-hosted SaaS platform with software licensing fees. Healthcare organizations pay for access to the patient engagement platform, consolidating multiple patient-facing tools into a single solution. The company claims potential savings of 75%+ per month on licensing fees from consolidating solutions.
2. Professional Services & Implementation: Implementation, training, and ongoing support services for healthcare organizations deploying the BridgeInteract platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Bridge Patient Portal operates the BridgeInteract platform, a unified, white-labeled, ONC-certified patient engagement solution that consolidates fragmented patient-facing technologies (intake, scheduling, payments, telehealth, messaging, portal) into a single mobile-first experience. The platform integrates bi-directionally with EHR systems via FHIR-based APIs, supports client-branded mobile apps, and provides automation to reduce administrative burden and licensing costs for healthcare provider organizations.

Product overview

Bridge (Bridge Patient Portal Inc.) offers BridgeInteract, a unified patient engagement platform designed to consolidate fragmented patient-facing healthcare technologies. The platform operates on a modular architecture comprising core components including Bridge Portal (ONC-certified patient portal), Bridge Pay (payments), Bridge Scheduling, Bridge Virtual Care (telehealth), Bridge Communication (messaging), Bridge Mobile (client-branded mobile app), Bridge Intake, Bridge Tasking, and Bridge Interface (EHR integrations). The Patient Access and Revenue Suite is a recent addition enhancing intake and payment automation. The platform integrates with multiple EHR systems (Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, Greenway) and leverages FHIR-based APIs for interoperability. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Bridge positions itself as an EHR-vendor-neutral solution that replaces disconnected point solutions with a single, mobile-first digital front door.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BridgeInteract Patient Engagement Platform Unified, white-labeled, EHR-integrated patient engagement platform that consolidates digital intake, scheduling, payments, telehealth, secure messaging, and portal access under a single mobile-first solution for healthcare provider organizations.
• Bridge Portal ONC-certified patient portal software providing patients with lifetime login access to view, download, and transmit their health information, including lab results, medications, allergies, and clinical summaries.
• Bridge Pay Embedded patient payment solution enabling secure online bill pay, copay collections, text-to-pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and integrated payment processing with rates up to 20% lower than legacy competitors.
• Bridge Scheduling Patient scheduling software enabling self-service appointment booking with automated SMS and email appointment reminders.
• Bridge Virtual Care Telehealth solution enabling virtual visits between patients and providers with HIPAA-compliant video conferencing, native Zoom for Healthcare integration, virtual waiting room, and integrated clinical workflows.
• Bridge Communication Secure patient messaging solution providing two-way communication, broadcast messaging, recall messaging, and interactive voice response (IVR) for appointment reminders, with messages routing directly to the provider's native EHR inbox.
• Bridge Mobile Client-branded white-labeled mobile app published to Apple App Store and Google Play, providing patients with biometric passwordless access to portal, scheduling, payments, messaging, and intake.
• Bridge Intake Digital patient intake software enabling check-in, registration forms, and health risk assessments accessible via patient mobile device or in-office tablets and kiosks.
• Bridge Tasking Task management solution automating common administrative tasks including intake, registration, scheduling, and forms to reduce staffing needs and improve operational efficiency.
• Bridge Interface EHR integration services providing discrete bi-directional EHR writeback, FHIR-ready API connectivity, and supported connections to EHR and Practice Management systems including Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Greenway.
• Patient Access and Revenue Suite Enhanced BridgeInteract suite providing loginless patient access, automated EHR data writeback, embedded digital payments, OCR-based insurance card capture, and real-time insurance verification to consolidate vendor license fees for healthcare organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75%+ monthly savings on licensing fees from consolidating solutions
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• StripeflagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 8 May 2025Stripe acquired Bridge and now utilizes Bridge's technology for stablecoin accounts supporting USDC and Bridge's USDB stablecoin. The accounts target businesses in volatile currency regions and facilitate cross-border payments without the need for self-custody across 101 countries.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Luma Health: Patient engagement platform offering scheduling, intake, messaging, and referral workflows to provider organizations. Highly comparable in target buyer (mid-market and enterprise providers) and core product surface.
• Solutionreach: Long-standing patient engagement vendor for medical and dental practices offering reminders, recall, surveys, and text-to-pay. Competes with Bridge for the same mid-market provider consolidation budget.
• CipherHealth: Enterprise patient engagement platform with outreach, rounding, and post-discharge communication workflows. Comparable in enterprise-provider GTM and value-based-care orientation.
• Phreesia: Publicly traded patient intake, scheduling, and payments platform widely viewed as Bridge's primary direct competitor. Both target provider organizations seeking to replace fragmented patient-facing workflows with a unified platform.
• Klara: Patient engagement platform focused on two-way messaging, intake, and telehealth for specialty and primary care practices. Directly comparable in messaging and intake modules.
• Relatient: Patient engagement and communication platform covering appointment reminders, broadcast messaging, self-scheduling, and patient intake — overlapping meaningfully with Bridge's Bridge Communication and Bridge Scheduling modules.

Broad incumbents

• athenahealth: Cloud EHR and patient engagement vendor for ambulatory providers. Bridges integrations to athenahealth exist but athenahealth's own patient portal represents a bundled incumbent Bridge must displace.
• Oracle Health (Cerner): Enterprise EHR vendor with a large installed base and bundled patient portal capabilities. A broad incumbent Bridge targets via its integration partnerships but must compete against on enterprise deals.
• Epic Systems (MyChart): Dominant enterprise EHR whose MyChart portal is often deployed as the default patient engagement solution. Competes with Bridge primarily at the large-IDN level where Epic's bundled offering is the default incumbent.
• NextGen Healthcare: Ambulatory EHR vendor whose own patient engagement and portal offerings represent a bundled incumbent alternative to Bridge. Comparable buyer persona and integration footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Bridge_PP
• Facebookfacebook.com/BridgeInteract
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bridge-patient-portal

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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