There's a new category of EHR for eye care. We built it.

Most EHRs in eye care were designed two decades ago — andit shows. Barti is the modern EHR: cloud-native, AI-powered,and built as one connected operating system for your practice.

The shift

Two categories. One obvious choice.

Eye care has been stuck with software built for a different era because it was. Here's how the status quo compares to a platform built for today.

Legacy EHR

The status Quo

Aging platforms patched together over twenty years. Some predate the cloud entirely; others were lifted-and-shifted onto it. Either way, the architecture is showing its age.

Five to ten disconnected tools to run one practice. Even when vendors call it "integrated," staff still log into separate systems and re-key data by hand

Click-heavy interfaces that ignore real-world workflow. Every encounter is a maze of tabs, fields, and pop-ups

AI and automation are bolt-ons, if available at all

Frequent downtime that brings the schedule to a halt

Implementations measured in quarters, not weeks

Updates are slow, disruptive, and often manual

Modern EHR

The Barti standard

One unified operating system for your practice. EHR, practice management, patient comms, billing and claims, all built natively together.

Everything in one platform. Your practice operating system

Modern interface designed around how doctors and staff actually work

AI built in. Ambient scribe, automated workflows, smart docs

Live in weeks, not quarters. No heavy IT lift

Continuous, automatic updates. Always on the latest version

Reliable, cloud-native uptime. Your schedule keeps moving

Why modern matters

Four reasons practices areswitching to Barti

It's not about a better feature here or a nicer screen there. It's about a fundamentally different architecture and what that unlocks for your  practice.

One platform, not ten

Most practices stitch together an EHR, a practice management system,a patient communications tool, a VoIP phone system, a billing and claims add-on, a recall system, a payments processor, an optical ordering tool, and more. Each one is a contract, an integration, and a place data can break.

Barti is built as a single operating system for your practice. Everyworkflow — from scheduling to checkout to recall — lives in one place, powered by one source of truth.

Modern interface, modern workflows

Legacy systems were designed in an era of pull-down menus and 50-field forms. They make doctors and staff click, scroll, and tab their way through every encounter.

Barti is built cloud-native, with an interface that feels like the software you actually want to use — plus AI built in to make charting and documentation dramatically faster. Fewer clicks, faster exams, fewer late nights catching up on charts.

AI built-in, not bolted on

Legacy vendors are scrambling to layer AI features on top of decades-old code — usually as a separate, paid add-on from a third party. The results feel exactly that disconnected.

Barti has AI woven through the platform. Ambient scribing, automated documentation, intelligent workflows, and smart suggestions — all native, all included, all working from your real practice data

Live in weeks, not quarters

A legacy EHR implementation is an IT project — long timelines, on-prem servers or hybrid setups, painful data migrations, drawn-out staff trainings, and inevitable delays

Barti is cloud-native and designed for fast onboarding. Most practices are live in a few weeks, with white-glove migration and training — no heavy IT lift required.

Legacy
A core EHR plus a sprawl of third-party add-ons
Your practice operating system. One platform.Less fragmentation.
Legacy
Click-heavy, form-driven, slow
Workflow-driven and fast — designed around how eye care
really works
Legacy
AI is a third-party add-on — or absent
AI is part of the platform. Native, included, always improving.
Legacy
3–6+ month implementations
Live in weeks. No servers. No surprise costs.
A category of one

Two things no other EHR in eye care can say

First & only

Endorsed by AOAExcel

In the AOA's history, AOAExcel had never endorsed an EHR. Until Barti. After deep evaluation, we became the first and only EHR to earn that endorsement. A sign that they see our vision for how eye care actually practices, and that our software delivers on it.

Independently owned

Aligned with eye care, not a parent company

Some legacy EHRs are now owned by insurance conglomerates, eyewear brands, or private-equity rollups. Barti remains independently owned, so our incentives line up with yours, letting us innovate faster and push the independent eye care industry forward.

Side by side

Modern EHR vs. Legacy EHR

The differences add up to a fundamentally different experience for your team and your patients.

Capability
The status Quo
Legacy hr
Modern EHR
Architecture
Architecture
On-prem or aging cloud, designed pre-2010
Architecture
Cloud-native, built for today
Platform model
Platform model
Core EHR + 5–10 third-party add-ons
Platform model
One unified practice OS. EHR, PM, comms, billing, all native
Interface
Interface
Form-based, click-heavy
Interface
Workflow-driven, fast, modern UX
AI & automation
AI & automation
Bolted on or absent
AI & automation
Built in. Ambient scribe, smart docs, automated workflows
Implementation
Implementation
3–6+ months, IT-heavy
Implementation
Weeks, white-glove onboarding
Updates
Updates
Infrequent, often disruptive
Updates
Continuous and automatic. Always current
Integrations
Integrations
Patchwork, brittle, often paid
Integrations
Native by default. Fewer seams, fewer breaks
AOAExcel endorsement
AOAExcel endorsement
Never endorsed
AOAExcel endorsement
The first and only AOAExcel-endorsed EHR
Ownership
Ownership
Often owned by insurance conglomerates, eyewear brands, or PE rollups
Ownership
Independently owned. Aligned with eye care, not a parent company
Built for
Built for
Yesterday's practice
Built for
How eye care actually works today, and where it's headed next
Testimonials

What our customers say

Dr. Maria Sampalis
Sampalis Eye Care
Text patients right from Barti — it’s that easy

Barti is so easy to use! I love that we can send texts directly without needing a separate system. It’s not complicated, and our staff picked it up really quickly.

Dr. Rahul Sud
Gaze Eye Care
Charting in half the time

Barti is speeding me up so fast that an entire family came in, and I was able to knock them out. I'm doing between 20-30 minutes down from 45 minutes to an hour.

Shirle Kelly
Central Arkansas LASIK
A team that truly listens, supports, and delivers

Barti is a pleasure to collaborate with and their customer service is exceptional!

Dr. Amber Wiggins
Peek-a-Boo Optometry for Kids
Barti took the stress out of my cold start

The Barti team has been a true cornerstone during the early stages of launching my first cold start. Starting a new practice has its challenges; however, the Barti team eased some of these difficulties by guiding me through the process as they integrated all of the essential services into a single EHR. I am exceedingly pleased.