SPRY is Now CEHRT Certified: Built for Proactive, Collaborative Care
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By Brijraj Bhuptani, cofounder and CEO, SPRY Therapeutics
Last week, SPRY achieved ONC Health IT Certification, formally known as Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT). We built it in three months because practices told us they needed it now.
Healthcare is reorganizing around connectivity faster than most people realize.
Vermont now pays practices up to $90,000 to connect to their state HIE. Connecticut mandates HIE connection—not optional, required. North Carolina funds integration. Medicare eliminated automatic MIPS reweighting for PT, OT, and SLP providers. HHS made information blocking enforcement their "top priority," with penalties reaching $1 million per violation.
This isn't regulatory noise. This is healthcare fundamentally rewiring itself.
Here's what nobody's saying out loud: Isolated practices are becoming obsolete.
Not because they lack clinical expertise, but because healthcare is reorganizing around connectivity. And if you can’t connect, you don’t exist in the new system being built around you.
Everyone points to reimbursement pressure. Economies of scale. Access to capital.
That's all true. But there's something else.
Hospital systems have enterprise-grade technology infrastructure. They exchange data with specialists in real time. They participate in value-based care programs. They connect to health information exchanges. They prove outcomes with data that actually moves between systems.
Most practices are running software built for a different era—when practices operated in isolation and that was fine.
That era ended. The gap isn't clinical. It's infrastructure.
When The RehabGYM in Vermont approached us, the practice faced a critical decision.
Vermont’s MDAAP program offered up to $90,000 in incentives for practices that could connect to the state health information exchange. The RehabGYM wanted to modernize and access these benefits, but not at the cost of its future.
The existing CEHRT-certified vendors in the market would have required compromise. Legacy systems with limited flexibility. Platforms that would lock the practice into outdated technology for years. That would have meant trading one set of constraints for another just to check a compliance box.
The RehabGYM needed a system that was both certified today and built for tomorrow.
They told us what they needed. We built it. In three months.
That’s our product philosophy. When practices tell us what they need to compete in connected care, we build it. Our roadmap isn’t predetermined—it’s shaped by what providers actually need to win.
Three months from decision to full CEHRT certification is only possible because of architectural decisions we made on day one.
We built SPRY on native, modern infrastructure. Open APIs. Flexible foundation. No legacy code constraining what's possible.
When we need to build something—HIE connectivity, new integrations, compliance capabilities—we can move fast because the foundation is right. Speed and quality aren't trade-offs when you build correctly from the start.
Most healthcare software is built on decades-old architecture. Every new capability requires working around constraints built into the foundation.
We made different choices. And those choices mean we can respond when practices need something urgently.
CEHRT isn’t a compliance checkbox. It’s infrastructure that changes what’s possible for your practice:
I’m not talking about philosophical collaboration. I’m talking about technical capability.
When a patient sees you for low back pain, can their primary care physician see your treatment notes in their system?
When a surgeon refers a post-op patient, can you send progress notes directly into their EHR?
This isn’t futuristic. This is table stakes in 2025.
And it requires CEHRT certification plus the right technology foundation to actually deliver on that promise.
Healthcare is reorganizing around connectivity. The pace is accelerating, not slowing.
You can either build the infrastructure to compete at scale, or you can become part of someone else’s infrastructure.
In late October, we’re hosting a webinar that walks through what’s changing in the 2025 compliance landscape and how practices should prepare. We’ll cover MIPS requirements, information blocking rules, state HIE programs, and the technology infrastructure practices need to stay competitive.
But the real story is what’s happening in practices like The RehabGYM: providers who refused to settle for compliance alone, and instead chose innovation and future-proof infrastructure.
That’s the future we’re building at SPRY.