The History of ClinicOffice

Year 2023

May 2023 saw the release of ClinicOffice v6, which was delayed by a series of events. EU GDPR (2018), Brexit (2020) and two years of COVID (2020-2022) meant urgent work was required on COv5 to adapt to changing needs. For example: a full consent system, Zoom integration for telehealth and E-Docs for online form completion were all going to be COv6 features, but needed to be retro-fitted into COv5 instead.

Once the dust settled, we were finally able to release COv6… a further evolution of COv5 focused on introducing a suite of ‘Business Intelligence’ tools to the software, as well further integrations with 3rd party services and a solid platform for further planned development, including integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT!

Year 2012

Rather than a complete rewrite of the software, version 5 (released in January 2012) is based on the same code-base as version 4 and is more of an evolution than a revolution. We’ve added some major new features requested by our customers and have also worked to optimize and enhance the performance of the program.

Year 2008

While CO2005 introduced a lot of excellent new features, one problem was that the user interface sometimes got a bit complicated. Additionally, some clients had now been using ClinicOffice for a number of years and their databases were getting very large which was starting to impact performance.
And so in April 2008, ClinicOffice v4 was unleashed with a more powerful database engine and a brand new ‘Microsoft Ribbon Bar interface’ as well as many other enhancements.

Year 2005

However, one of the biggest requests we had was for the program interface to be even more flexible and customisable and for the program to run over the internet, thus ClinicOffice 2005 was released… in 2005 (!)
The interface was much more flexible with the possibility of unlimited user-defined fields. A number of new features were put in to the program, including a new database engine which could run over the internet.

Year 2003

2003 saw the release of ClinicOffice XP (essentially version 2 of ClinicOffice). ClinicOffice XP is still widely used even today by many clinics who have grown to love its simple and clean “Windows XP-style” user interface.

Year 2002

…and so in 2002 we released version 1 of ClinicOffice which was much more customisable than the original ChiroOffice and could easily be adapted to suit any healthcare profession.

Year 2001

In 2001 we released our first product aimed at healthcare professionals: ChiroOffice – Clinic management software for UK Chiropractors.

We soon had requests coming in from Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Podiatrists and numerous other professions all asking if we could provide some sort of Clinic Management software for their profession too!

Later that year we released OsteoOffice and PodiatryOffice. However it soon became apparent that it was going to be impractical to keep releasing different software packages for each and every healthcare profession…