Case Study: MacPractice achieves scalable, low-cost, reliable healthcare practice management deployments with MySQL

MacPractice Relies on MySQL to Deploy Powerful Healthcare Practice Management and Clinical Solutions

MacPractice is a leading developer of practice management and clinical software, hardware and services for Apple Mac systems, serving medical, dental, chiropractic and optometry offices. Its customers are typically small to medium practices without in-house IT, so MacPractice needed an easy-to-use, reliable and affordable solution that could be deployed widely and maintained without dedicated database administrators.

By embedding MySQL (MySQL Embedded Server) to store patient, clinical, prescription and billing data, MacPractice gained a reliable, low‑administration, scalable and cost‑effective backend that integrates with medical devices and adapts to regulatory changes. The result: rapid rollout—more than 2,000 installations in under four years—and continued expansion to thousands of offices and tens of thousands of users while keeping costs and administrative overhead low.

MacPractice

Mark Hollis

CEO