JointBooklet is an all-in-one orthopedic and musculoskeletal recovery platform covering operative and non-operative care — surgical booking, patient-facing recovery education, daily patient logging and progress, outcome score (PROM) collection, and remote therapeutic monitoring documentation.
Built by a practicing orthopedic surgeon, around the way an orthopedic practice actually runs.
Recovery platforms are usually built for the post-operative patient only. JointBooklet runs both sides on the same engine, so the patients you are managing conservatively get the same education, exercise programs and outcome scores as the ones you operate on.
From the booking sheet forward: pre-operative preparation and prehab, a countdown to the date, phase-by-phase recovery guidance, exercise programs with check-offs, milestones, and outcome scores from baseline through long-term follow-up.
Diagnosis-based programs anchored on enrollment rather than a surgery date — education, a graduated exercise program, and outcome scores for the patient you are managing conservatively, bridging the gap when formal therapy isn't in place.
Enrollment falls out of work your office already does.
Your coordinator books the case. The invite goes out as part of posting it.
You see the patient in the office and enroll them against their diagnosis. Same result: an invite sent by your team.
They land on a program built for their specific procedure or their specific condition.
Phase-by-phase guidance on where they are in recovery, illustrated exercises with written instructions, and outcome scores on schedule.
Optional: with an Apple Watch, activity and walking distance arrive on their own.
Physical therapist, PT assistant, occupational therapist, medical assistant, RTM coordinator, PA, nurse practitioner or physician.
See who is progressing, adjust an individual patient's exercise program, and have a live interaction by phone, in person or telehealth.
The platform produces a PDF that is exported into your EMR, and your billing team handles the reimbursement.
You are not buying an empty framework to fill in. The library is written, illustrated and published — every exercise with its own illustration and written step-by-step instructions — and you can read all of it right now, without talking to anyone.
Browse the condition guides, the exercise programs, or the recovery education library — this is the same content your patients would receive.
The day-to-day work sits with your care team on a single worklist — who is progressing, who needs attention, and what to adjust. It fits alongside the way your office already runs rather than asking it to work differently.
Patients get guidance written for their specific procedure or condition, phase by phase, so they know what this week should look like and what tends to come next. Knowing what is normal is most of what people want from a recovery program.
Most surgical booking still lives on paper — a stack of sheets on the coordinator's desk, worked from the top down. It is a system with no memory, and it cannot answer the simplest question about any single case: this was posted a month ago, has the patient been called yet, is anything scheduled?
JointBooklet replaces the sheet and keeps the trail. Every case moves through the same stages, and every move is recorded with who made it and when. Open a booking and its whole history is there.
So the pipeline is something you look at rather than ask about: what is waiting to be called, what is called but not yet on the schedule, who is in the pre-operative queue, what has been operated on but not yet coded, and what is sitting with the biller.
The practice numbers come with it — case volume, how far out the operating room is filling, cancellation rate, case mix and facility mix, by surgeon and by period. There is no report to request and nobody to ask for it. Surgery dates sync to your calendar.
One platform instead of a booking sheet, an education handout, an exercise handout, an outcomes registry and a follow-up process that lives in someone's head.
One system for the whole panel, not just the surgical minority. Post-surgical recovery programs and diagnosis-based programs for patients managing a condition without an operation — same education, same exercise engine, same outcome collection.
A digital replacement for the paper booking sheet. Posting forms, facility packets, insurance capture, planned CPT codes and a clean surgical calendar, all generated from one record — with an optional calendar feed for the office.
Phase-by-phase guidance written for patients, specific to their procedure or diagnosis — what this stage usually looks like, what tends to change, and what to expect next.
Prehab through full recovery, phase by phase, with per-exercise check-offs at home. Programs follow your defaults, and you can adjust the program for a procedure or for one patient.
Daily check-ins, milestones, exercise completion and passive Apple Health activity give you a picture of how recovery is actually going between appointments, instead of a single snapshot in clinic.
Validated outcome instruments collected on schedule — pre-op baseline through long-term follow-up — with a completion worklist so nothing is missed and a print-ready summary for every visit.
Remote therapeutic monitoring generates the documentation trail: enrollment, monitoring days, and time-stamped clinical review. The platform documents; your billing team handles the reimbursement.
Templated care-team messages keep patients reassured and on track, documented in the record, without adding to your inbox.
Most between-visit calls are the same question in different words. The education is organized around exactly that question — what this week usually looks like, what tends to change, and what to expect next — so a patient who wants reassurance can find it without the office being the only route to an answer.
Your EMR stays the medical record and the billing system. JointBooklet is the software for the weeks between visits, where the EMR has nothing to say — education, exercise, recovery logging, outcome scores — plus the surgical booking sheet that is still paper. Patients are invited from the booking record, so enrollment is mostly a by-product of scheduling the case.
Each practice is its own tenant with database-level isolation, multi-factor authentication for staff, and audit logging. Programs you customize are your clinical content — they are never published or shared with another practice.
JointBooklet is built by Matthew Harb, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, and is used in his own practice with his own patients. It exists because the alternatives were a stack of printed handouts and a phone that rang with the same question every week.
Every recovery program, exercise progression and piece of patient education was written or reviewed by an orthopedic surgeon — not adapted from general fitness content or licensed from a vendor. When something in the product doesn't match how orthopedics actually works, it gets changed.
More about Dr. Harb: matthewharbmd.com
No. It sits alongside your EMR and covers the part the EMR does not — the weeks between visits. Your EMR remains the medical record and the billing system; JointBooklet handles patient education, exercise programs, recovery logging, outcome score collection and the surgical booking sheet.
Yes, and this is one of the main reasons it exists. Non-operative patients get diagnosis-based programs — education, a phase-by-phase exercise program, and outcome score collection — anchored on enrollment rather than a surgery date. Most platforms in this category are post-surgical only, which leaves out the majority of an orthopedic panel.
Hip and knee replacement, spine, shoulder and elbow, hand and wrist, foot and ankle, sports medicine, and fracture and trauma. The condition library covers the upper extremity, lower extremity and spine.
Remote therapeutic monitoring is a Medicare billing category for monitoring a patient's musculoskeletal status and adherence between visits. JointBooklet produces the documentation that supports it — enrollment, qualifying monitoring days, and time-stamped records of clinical review — and presents it as a worklist. It does not submit claims, and billing decisions remain with your practice and its billing team.
Patients are invited from the booking record, so most of the setup is a by-product of scheduling the case. Day to day, staff work from a worklist of patients who need attention rather than opening records one at a time.
That is a large part of the intent. Most between-visit calls are variations on "is this normal?", and the education is organized by exactly that question — what this week usually looks like for this procedure or diagnosis. Patients who can find the answer are less likely to call for it.
Yes. Each practice is its own tenant with database-level isolation, multi-factor authentication for staff, and audit logging. Clinical content you customize stays yours and is never published or shared with another practice.
JointBooklet is in use in practice today and is opening to a small number of additional practices. Email support@jointbooklet.com and we will walk you through it.
Tell us a little about how you practice and we'll show you how it fits.
Or write to support@jointbooklet.com.
If you're a patient: this page describes JointBooklet for clinicians. If your surgeon uses JointBooklet, you'll be invited by their office — accounts are set up by your care team. In the meantime, our condition guides and recovery education library are free and open to everyone.