Small medical practices across the country are starting 2012 with an extra $18,000 in the bank as a reward for making the transition from paper records to an Electronic Health Record system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Plan, is promoting the national shift to EHR systems [...]
Practice Fusion Scores Additional Funding to Support EMR Growth in 2012
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion has announced that they have secured an additional $2 million in funding to support the company’s projected growth in 2012. With over 130,000 medical professional users serving 29 million patients, the company has an aggressive growth strategy for the coming year including new free features to support physician and patients, the development of [...]
Practice Fusion Rated No. 1 EHR in Implementation and Support Experience
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion made its ratings debut with AmericanEHR Partners, a program of the American College of Physicians, last week by earning more top awards than any other Electronic Health Record vendor. The free, web-based EHR system received first place for Implementation Experience, Support Experience and Population Management and received top ten ratings in ten categories [...]
Practice Fusion Reveals iPad Prototype at Connect 2011
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion shared insight into its road map for the year ahead, including development of a native iPad application with top design firm, Cooper, during Practice Fusion Connect 2011. Members of the medical community from across the country joined Practice Fusion for the sold out event, the company’s second annual user conference in San Francisco. [...]
Practice Fusion Ranked as No. 1 EMR for e-Prescribing and Helping Doctors Achieve Meaningful Use by Black Book
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Brown-Wilson’s Black Book Rankings has Named Practice Fusion as the top EMR for e-prescribing and keeping users on track to achieve Meaningful Use incentives in a report surveying over 120,000 medical providers. Practice Fusion was previously awarded as the 2011 No. 1 EMR vendor in customer satisfaction. The free, web-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system [...]
Interesting Survey Results – 54% of Physicians believe EHR systems are safer than paper charts while only 39% of patients agree
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Electronic Health Record systems are becoming more common in exam rooms across the US but how is the technology transition being perceived? A survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion asked patients about their views on the safety of EHR versus paper charts while a separate survey posed the same questions to medical professionals. [...]
Practice Fusion & the Bay Area Science Festival Promote “Doctors of the Future” in San Francisco
October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion is supporting the Bay Area Science Festival, a first of its kind event celebrating science and technology in Northern California. Practice Fusion will be hosting a “Doctors of the Future” photobooth during Discovery Days at AT&T Park on November 6, 2011. “We want to encourage the next generation of doctors by helping them [...]
Record attendance expected for Practice Fusion’s annual conference with speakers including Peter Thiel & Farzad Mostashari
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion has announced that their second annual free conference, Connect 2011, is sold out. Held at the Masonic Center in San Francisco on November 11, 2011, the event will feature keynote speakers including Ryan Howard, Peter Thiel, Alan Cooper and Daniel Kraft, MD. Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the [...]
Practice Fusion (finally) Previews Native Mobile Application for Doctors at Health 2.0
September 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
Practice Fusion is finally getting into the app business and is debuting a prototype of its native iOS mobile application for the iPhone at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Practice Fusion currently has iPhone and Android applications in private beta testing. The mobile solutions will provide a free, lightweight and secure way for [...]
Practice Fusion Polls Experts for their Healthcare and Technology Predictions for 2012
This past year was full of surprises, from the health information technology hiring boom to the popularity of tablets in medical practices across the country. To gather some predictions for the coming year Practice Fusion asked several key experts in healthcare and technology to share their predictions for 2012. Predictions for 2012 in the Health [...]