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05/22/2026

Going to The Institute for Functional Medicine AIC 2026?

As functional medicine practices expand into memberships, cash-pay programs, supplements, and more high-touch care models, operations can get complicated quickly.

A simple question to consider:

Is your tech stack helping your practice grow, or is your team spending too much time stitching systems together?

Hint helps bring memberships, billing, clinical workflows, and supplement recommendations into one more connected experience.

If you’ll be at IFM AIC, we’d love to connect.

Discover new paradigms in functional medicine at IFM's 2026 AIC, the largest functional medicine conference of the year! In-person and online available.

05/20/2026

It’s encouraging to see broader healthcare conversations focusing on something DPC physicians have known for a long time: trust, continuity, and patient education are not soft benefits. They are the core infrastructure for better care.

This Medical Economics piece highlights a simple reality: when patients understand the model and experience true access, satisfaction, and loyalty follow. That aligns closely with what we’ve seen in our own patient experience research around continuity, coordination, and physician access.

DPC does not just change how care is paid for. It changes the relationship at the center of care.

A video explainer about why patients in direct primary care end up loving their doctors.

05/19/2026

Not every health concern needs the emergency room, but it still deserves prompt, professional care.

Urgent Care provides the right level of care for non‑life‑threatening illnesses and injuries, helping patients get treated faster while keeping emergency rooms available for true emergencies.

This Urgent Care Awareness Month, we’re proud to be part of a smarter, more efficient healthcare system.

Learn more about how Hint supports Urgent Care clinics at https://go.hint.com/4tG50KY

05/18/2026

Functional medicine is built around complexity for good reason.

The challenge is when that complexity shows up in your operations.

One tool for charting. Another for billing. Another for supplements. A spreadsheet fills the gaps.

A better approach is not necessarily fewer tools. It is a more connected ecosystem built for how you actually practice.

Read more →

Functional medicine practices can simplify their tech stack by connecting memberships, packages, charting, supplements, billing, and patient communication in one workflow.

05/15/2026

Over the past few weeks, we’ve rolled out updates across Hint Core and Hint Clinical to make everyday workflows smoother.

That includes:
• faster patient search
• improved scheduling and booking
• updates to AI Scribe
• more flexibility around packages and payments
• mobile improvements
• bug fixes and quality-of-life updates

Some of these changes came directly from conversations with customers at Hint Summit.

We’ll keep building. Keep the feedback coming.

05/14/2026

The model is evolving.

The question is: where is it going next?

What do you see for the future of Direct Primary Care?

Here’s how Dr. Melissa Mondala and Dr. Dolapo Babalola answered.

We’d love to hear your perspective—what do you think comes next?

05/13/2026

Direct Primary Care is evolving quickly, and the data is starting to paint a clear picture.

Employers are playing a bigger role. Pricing has remained stable. Clinicians are experiencing less burnout. Care is shifting from one-time visits to ongoing relationships.

These are meaningful signals of where the model is heading.

Here are a few key takeaways from the latest DPC Trends Report →

What stands out most to you?

05/13/2026

Hear from our attendees: Why are clinicians exploring DPC?

05/12/2026

"Hint Summit 2026 highlighted how much Direct Primary Care has evolved.

The conversation has moved beyond proving the model. Now the focus is on how to sustain it, scale it, and refine it as expectations continue to rise.

A few key themes stood out:

• Employers are implementing DPC as a core benefit
• Practices are growing while preserving continuity
• Technology is being evaluated by how it simplifies workflows
• The ecosystem is becoming more connected

Through it all, one thing stayed constant: the physician–patient relationship.

As the model grows, the challenge isn’t proving its value—it’s maintaining what makes it work.

Read the full recap →"DPC hit a turning point at Hint Summit 2026.

It’s no longer “does it work?”
It’s “how do we scale it without breaking it?”

Hint Summit 2026 recap: how Direct Care is aligning across employers, technology, and clinical workflows to scale sustainably.

05/08/2026