Michael Nusimow

Founder & CEO, DrSwarm · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Nusimow is the co-founder and former CEO of DrChrono, a mobile-first cloud EHR platform acquired by EverCommerce in 2021. He later founded DrSwarm, a startup developing AI agents to automate clinic operations.

15statements → 12claims → 7claims resolved → 43%fully supported → 3.67/5average certainty → 1/5average debate potential →

3 supported 2 partly supported 2 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

12 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Nusimow: Medicare estimates 85% of providers use EHR technology
“Medicare puts that somewhere around 85% of providers are using this tech.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 10:22 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Nusimow: Physicians bought 10% of initial 300,000 iPad pre-orders
“Way back in April, 2010 when the iPad first launched, there were about 300,000 pre-orders for the iPad. And it was limited to, like, two iPads per household or customer. And about 10% of those, 30,000 of those were sold to physicians.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 9:29 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
50% certainty 3
58% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Everything Michael Nusimow said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nusimow: DrChrono is at approximately $23M in ARR
“No, we're probably at around a twenty three million dollar ARR rate right now.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 6:50 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Disclosure
DrChrono Takes a Cut of Clinic Insurance Collections for RCM
“Our upsell where we generate the revenue is by taking a percentage of the revenue that we help the doctor and clinic earn from the insurance company.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 3:33 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nusimow: DrChrono software licenses average roughly $6,000 per provider annually
“For the software side an average software per provider license would be roughly around 6000 dollars a year.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 4:44 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nusimow: DrChrono RCM generates one-third of revenue from 10% of customers
“The RCM business, which is about a third of our revenue and has been growing really fast, that's only about 10% of our customer base.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 7:24 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Disclosure
Nusimow: DrChrono Ended 2018 at Around $15M ARR With 50% Growth
“We've been growing at about 50% year over year, so I believe we ended the year last year with about around fifteen million in ARR.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 8:02 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Disclosure
Nusimow: DrChrono Added Around $2.5M in Debt to Supplement Equity
“I think we've used some venture debt along with our seed round and with our series A round. So that's something we're able to use to kind of supplement the, that equity financing, probably another two and a half million in debt as part of those rounds.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 8:51 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Contradicted
Nusimow: Physicians bought 10% of initial 300,000 iPad pre-orders
“Way back in April, 2010 when the iPad first launched, there were about 300,000 pre-orders for the iPad. And it was limited to, like, two iPads per household or customer. And about 10% of those, 30,000 of those were sold to physicians.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 9:29 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Contradicted
Nusimow: Under 3% of US doctors used EMRs in 2009-2010
“You know, in circa 2009, 2010, less than three percent of doctors in the US were using any kind of EMR.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 9:45 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Partly supported
Nusimow: US Meaningful Use program paid $30B for EHR adoption
“And there was a set of government incentives called Meaningful Use that paid out thirty billion dollars over the last 10 years to really just giving incentives to doctors to start using EHR tech like Dr. Crono and others”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 9:55 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Supported
Nusimow: Medicare estimates 85% of providers use EHR technology
“Medicare puts that somewhere around 85% of providers are using this tech.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 10:22 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nusimow: DrChrono achieved negative net churn in eight of nine quarters
“For the last I think it's been around eight of the last nine quarters, we've had a negative net churn, so we've been able to expand our user base beyond what we've churned.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 11:43 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nusimow: Involuntary churn accounts for 60% of DrChrono's gross churn
“You know, for us about 60% of the gross churn that we do have is what I'd call involuntary churn which is, you know, a practice shutting down, providers leaving a practice.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 11:55 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Partly supported
Nusimow: Small-practice ambulatory providers dropped from over 60% to 40%
“When we started the company 10 years ago, probably 60 somewhere between, you know, more than 60% of providers were in these smaller one to five provider groups. And today or at least in 2017, I've seen data that, you know, that's more of a share of about 40% o…”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 12:06 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Supported
Nusimow: DrChrono holds DEA certification for mobile controlled substance prescriptions
“We're certified with the DEA to send such powerful prescriptions through the iPad and iPhone.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 2:20 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
Assertion Supported
Nusimow: Only about 700,000 of the 1M US MD holders practice medicine
“There's about a million people with an M.D. In the United States, and only about 700,000 of those M.D.s who, you know, people in the U.S. Who have a medical degree actually practice medicine today.”
Michael Nusimow Sep 21, 2019 ▶ 5:05 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers Sep 21, 2019 10m
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