At Alchemy, we’ve always believed that the most important care doesn’t happen inside a clinic of the pharmacy. It happens beyond the walls of the pharmacy, out in the community. And we get even more fired up to build great software that extends beyond the in-house pharmacy.
It happens in parking lots, at nightclubs, in rehab and addiction recovery and treatment centers, on mobile units parked outside shelters and community centers. It happens wherever patients actually are.
The problem is that the tools supporting that work have not kept up. Mobile testing teams are still relying on paper forms, manual data entry, and workflows that break down the moment the event ends. We have seen this firsthand with partners like Someone Cares in Atlanta, where over 1,400 patients were tested in a year but only a small handful were successfully linked to care.
That is not a clinical problem. It is an infrastructure problem and Release #8: Mobile Testing Events is our answer to that.
A single place to run outreach
Everything starts with structure. With Mobile Testing Events, teams can create and manage outreach events in one place. Instead of scattered notes and spreadsheets, each event is defined with a name, date, location, and the conditions being tested that day.
Critical details like test type, lot numbers, and expiration dates are captured upfront. This becomes essential when it is time to report to local and state health departments. What used to be a compliance burden becomes part of the natural workflow.
Intake built for real patients in the field
From there, the experience moves directly into patient intake. These forms are not static templates. They are fully customizable to each clinic’s needs and patient population.
In practice, that means patients can:
- Toggle between English and Spanish
- Provide consent and a digital signature
- Complete demographic, behavioral, and medical history questions
This is especially important in outreach settings where context matters. Questions around substance use, sexual health, and broader medical history are not optional. They are what drive the next step in care.
From testing to action
Once intake is complete, the workflow transitions seamlessly into testing and documentation.
Staff can:
- Select the exact test kit being used
- Input results in real time
- Track whether results were communicated
- Document follow-up appointments and patient education
But the real shift is not just better documentation. It is what happens because of it In most outreach programs today, a negative HIV test is treated as the end of the interaction. The patient walks away and the opportunity is lost. In reality, that is the moment of highest leverage.
With Mobile Testing Events, teams can immediately identify patients interested in PrEP, surface relevant risk factors, and follow up in a structured way. It turns testing into a pathway for prevention and a growing patient base that drive improved financial performance.
Bringing the model to life in Atlanta
This is exactly the gap we have been working to close with Someone Cares in Atlanta. Their outreach program already has strong reach, testing hundreds of patients across the city each month. But historically, there has not been a consistent way to convert those interactions into ongoing care.
The goal of their same day PrEP program is simple. Meet patients at the moment of highest motivation immediately after a negative test and initiate prevention before they are lost to follow up. Mobile Testing Events is the infrastructure that makes that model operational.
Reporting that actually works
At the end of each event, everything rolls up into a single view. Results, patient education, and follow ups are already structured and organized. Teams can export the full dataset to CSV in seconds and submit it to local and state health departments. No more late nights stitching together spreadsheets. No more duplicate data entry across systems.
From outreach to outcomes
Mobile outreach is one of the most powerful tools in public health. But without the right infrastructure, it breaks down. Patients fall through the cracks. Data gets lost. Follow up does not happen.
Mobile Testing Events changes that by turning outreach into a continuous care experience. It connects intake, testing, results, and follow up into a single workflow that is consistent and scalable. This is how you move from testing to treatment to prevention in a way that actually works.
We are continuing to invest in deeper EMR integrations, automated reporting pipelines to state and local health departments, and new ways to engage patients after the event, all with a single goal in mind: not just better software, but better outcomes.
Thanks for reading, and we will see you at the next release.
