About MacPractice

Executive Bio

Patrick Clyne / Vice President, Director of Product Development

In 1984 a young Apple II programmer started to design and create the very first dental practice management software for Apple's new Macintosh graphical operating system. That young programmer was Patrick Clyne.

Later that year he sold his software for stock in a new company that was created to market and develop Macintosh practice management software. As Vice President in Charge of Product Development for the new company, HealthCare Communications, Inc. (HCC), Patrick's team began a second release of DentalMac, which then became the foundation for other programs: MediMac, ChiroMac, OrthoRAD and OpticMac. After 10 years, Patrick left HCC in 1994 for what turned out to be a little over a year.

After the sale of DentalMac to Unident, Patrick continued to work to improve DentalMac for Unident and its subsequent owners, InfoCure and eventually PracticeWorks, subsequently purchased by Kodak. Patrick also worked to maintain MediMac and ChiroMac code when PCN made its investment in HCC. Significant enhancements in these products were prohibited as a condition of the PCN investment.

Until April of 2004, when Patrick left the MacHealth division of WebMD, the owners of MediMac and ChiroMac, he was the sole remaining software engineer working with MediMac and ChiroMac code. Patrick designed, wrote and/or maintained successive versions of DentalMac, MediMac, and ChiroMac as a software engineer for each new owner of the program code for 20 years.

Patrick has several years of experience with web design and development, including a non-profit.