A standalone EMR keeps your records in order inside your hospital. A connected EMR also links to the patient’s own app, the pharmacy they use and the doctors they see.
The short answer
If your patients only ever see you, a standalone EMR can be enough. Most patients in Nigeria move between clinics, pharmacies and HMOs. A connected EMR lets their history, prescriptions and appointment requests move with them, with their consent.
Side by side
How the two compare, question by question.
Question
Standalone EMR
Doctoro EMR, connected
Where the record lives
Inside your hospital’s system only.
In your hospital, linked to the patient’s Doctoro account once they confirm it.
How new patients reach you
Phone calls and walk-ins.
Patients on Doctoro can also ask to be seen from the app. Requests arrive in your in basket.
A patient’s earlier history
Whatever they remember, or bring on paper.
What they choose to share from earlier visits, shown on your chart.
Prescriptions
Printed or handwritten for the patient to carry.
Sent to the pharmacy the patient chooses on Doctoro.
Consent
Usually a signed form on file.
The patient grants and withdraws access from their phone. Sections they have not shared stay locked.
Doctors away from the desk
Usually need a hospital computer.
Doctoro Professional on their phone: their schedule, a patient’s Health QR code, video consultations.
Telling patients what happens next
The desk phones them.
Patients see their requests and appointments in the app.
When standalone is enough
A single practice whose patients rarely see anyone else.
A facility that only needs internal records and has no plan to work with outside pharmacies or doctors.
If you already run an EMR your team likes, moving is real work. Talk to us first and weigh it honestly.
What connection adds
Patients can reach you from the app, not only by phone.
History you would otherwise never see, when the patient shares it.
Prescriptions that arrive at the pharmacy instead of on a slip.
Consent the patient manages, recorded for you.
What switching looks like
Send the onboarding request. Tell us how your facility works today.
We set up your EMR. Your departments, your staff and their roles.
Link your patients. Patients who already use Doctoro confirm the link to your record from their phone.
Patients start reaching you. Appointment requests from the app arrive in your in basket.
Questions clinics ask
Do our patients need the app?
No. You can register and treat anyone, including walk-ins without a phone. Patients who do use Doctoro get the extra connection: requests, sharing and their own view of their care.
Can another hospital read our records?
Only what the patient chooses to share from their own Doctoro record. Your facility’s chart is not opened to other facilities by being on Doctoro.
How is a patient linked to our record?
The desk links your record to the patient’s Doctoro account, and the patient confirms it. If the match is unclear, nothing is linked.
Can patients start using Doctoro now?
The apps are in beta. Patients can create a Doctoro account now and request access to the app.
See the EMR for yourself.
Tell us about your facility. Nothing is set up or charged until we have spoken with you.
