About Canis Computer Laboratories
Canis Computer Laboratories is a healthcare AI company in Albany, New York. We build the systems an independent practice runs on, and the team at our sister company, CCL Billing, has run revenue cycle for practices since 2018.
Canis Computer Laboratories at a Glance
Two Companies, One Team
Canis Computer Laboratories
Canis builds the software: the voice and reminder platform, the Cannect™ electronic health record, the Canis AI models, practice websites, and the training and evaluation environments for healthcare AI.
CCL Billing, Inc.
The medical billing company, and the sister company of Canis Computer Laboratories: a separate business with the same founder, incorporated in 2022. Since 2018 its team has worked claims, denials and aging accounts for independent practices, in Cannect or in the system a practice already uses. CCL stands for Canis Computer Laboratories.
Both companies work from the same office. The billing team uses what the lab builds, every day, on real payer behavior, which is how we find out whether it works before anyone else relies on it.
What We Build
Each piece covers one step of a practice’s day and stands on its own. Together they run from the first phone call to the last statement.
Voice Platform
Telephony with call routing, appointment reminders and outreach campaigns for medical offices, health systems and contact centers.
Platform overview →Cannect™ EHR
An electronic health record and practice management system that drafts the note and prepares the claim during the visit, for a person to review.
Cannect EHR →Canis AI
The family of healthcare models behind Cannect: Clinical, DocAssist and RCM. Each suggestion is logged with the model that produced it.
Canis AI models →Training and Evaluation Environments
Environments for healthcare AI built from revenue-cycle and documentation work, with synthetic patients and practitioner graders. In early access.
The environments →Medical Billing
Outsourced billing and revenue cycle management from CCL Billing, with core specialties in behavioral health, podiatry and primary care.
Billing services →Websites and Hosting
Websites built and hosted by the same team, including practice websites with HIPAA-aware forms and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.
Web services →How We Work
A Person Approves What Matters
Our models draft, suggest and score. They do not sign notes or submit claims on their own. Each suggestion is recorded, and a person approves anything that cannot be undone.
Built on the Real Job
The software is built by the people who run the billing operation, so it is shaped by denials, payer rules and deadlines.
Open Standards
The voice platform speaks SIP, WebRTC and REST and is engineered to interoperate with open-source telephony such as Asterisk, Kamailio and FreeSWITCH. Cannect uses FHIR R4 and SMART on FHIR.
Measured Engineering
We hold our own work to public, checkable standards: speed, accessibility and search performance for every website we ship, and latency, uptime and call quality for every voice deployment.
Leadership
William Hyatt
Founder
William Hyatt founded Canis Computer Laboratories in Albany, New York, in 2018.
Office
99 Washington Avenue, Suite 1008
Albany, NY 12210
Working with practices and organizations across the United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Canis Computer Laboratories do?
Canis Computer Laboratories is a healthcare AI company. It builds the systems an independent medical practice runs on: a voice and reminder platform, the Cannect electronic health record, the Canis AI models, and practice websites. It also builds training and evaluation environments for healthcare AI. Its sister company, CCL Billing, Inc., provides medical billing.
Are Canis Computer Laboratories and CCL Billing the same company?
No. They are sister companies: two separate businesses with the same founder and one team. Canis Computer Laboratories builds the software. CCL Billing, Inc. provides medical billing. The business began in 2018 as Canis Computer Laboratories, and its billing side was incorporated as CCL Billing, Inc. in 2022. Both work from the same office in Albany, New York. CCL stands for Canis Computer Laboratories.
Where is Canis Computer Laboratories located?
Canis Computer Laboratories is headquartered at 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 1008, Albany, New York 12210, and works with clients across the United States.
When was Canis Computer Laboratories founded?
Canis Computer Laboratories was founded in 2018 by William Hyatt.
Who does Canis Computer Laboratories work with?
Independent medical practices first, with core experience in behavioral health, podiatry and primary care through CCL Billing. The lab offers its training and evaluation environments, in early access, to AI labs, healthcare AI vendors and health systems. The voice platform and web services are offered to health systems, contact centers and other organizations as well.
Does a practice have to buy everything from Canis?
No. Each piece stands on its own. A practice can use CCL Billing with the EHR it already has, or start with the phones or the website, and add the rest when it suits.
Ready to Talk?
Tell us which piece you need and where you are starting from. We will tell you what we would look at first.