# Everything we know about running a longevity clinic

Source: https://www.longevityehr.com/resources

Practical guides for operators, side-by-side software comparisons and a biomarker library written for clinicians.

## Guides for clinic operators

- [How to start a longevity clinic](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/how-to-start-a-longevity-clinic): Model, team, testing, pricing and software, step by step.
- [Longevity membership pricing](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/longevity-membership-pricing): How clinics package and price memberships.
- [What is longevity medicine?](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/what-is-longevity-medicine): The field, the care model and how a clinic practices it.
- [Longevity medicine certification](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/longevity-medicine-certification): Training paths for physicians entering longevity medicine.
- [Functional medicine certification](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/functional-medicine-certification): IFM and other paths, compared.
- [EHR vs EMR](https://www.longevityehr.com/guides/ehr-vs-emr): The difference, and which one a longevity clinic needs.

## Software comparisons

Based on public information, dated, and updated when vendors change.

- [Best longevity clinic software](https://www.longevityehr.com/best-longevity-clinic-software): An honest comparison of the platforms longevity clinics use.
- [LongevityEHR vs Healthie](https://www.longevityehr.com/compare/healthie): How the two compare for a longevity practice.
- [LongevityEHR vs Heads Up Health](https://www.longevityehr.com/compare/heads-up-health): A full EHR against a data overlay.
- [LongevityEHR vs Decoda Health](https://www.longevityehr.com/compare/decoda-health): Two longevity-first platforms side by side.
- [OptiMantra alternatives](https://www.longevityehr.com/alternatives/optimantra): Options for longevity clinics that outgrew a general practice system.
- [Cerbo alternatives](https://www.longevityehr.com/alternatives/cerbo): Options for cash-pay longevity practices weighing Cerbo.

## Biomarker library

What longevity clinics measure, why it matters and how to track it over time.

- [Optimal vs reference ranges](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/optimal-ranges): Why longevity clinics set their own ranges, and how to do it carefully.
- [ApoB](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/apob): Apolipoprotein B and cardiovascular risk.
- [Lipoprotein(a)](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/lipoprotein-a): The inherited cardiovascular risk marker.
- [HOMA-IR](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/homa-ir): Estimating insulin resistance from fasting glucose and insulin.
- [Fasting insulin](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/fasting-insulin): An early signal of metabolic dysfunction.
- [hs-CRP](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/hs-crp): Low-grade inflammation and cardiovascular risk.
- [Vitamin D](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/vitamin-d): 25-hydroxyvitamin D testing and what the guidelines say.
- [Ferritin](https://www.longevityehr.com/biomarkers/ferritin): Iron stores, deficiency and overload.