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Practice Fusion in the San Francisco Business Times

by practicefusion on July 17, 2009

Practice Fusion in the San Francisco Business Times



The San Francisco Business Times has published a special health care information technology section in this week’s edition. Practice Fusion’s CEO, Ryan Howard, was interviewed by by Patrick Hoge for a piece about emerging technology in the Bay Area.
Here’s an excerpt from “Tech companies hope to catch health IT windfall“:

“Numerous Bay Area technology companies are positioning themselves to benefit from the $19 billion-plus federal stimulus for health care information technology, particularly electronic medical records, either directly or indirectly, through selling hardware, software or consulting services.
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Nipping at McKesson’s heels is Practice Fusion, a venture capital-backed San Francisco startup with 18 employees that is offering doctors in smaller settings free online records management. It makes money with medical ads and by using and selling anonymous patient data. Ryan Howard, Practice Fusion’s chairman and CEO, says doctors can use his free service and pocket the federal incentive money, which has no strings on its use.”

Read the complete article about health IT online here.

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  • Joseph Condon

    No Mac OS support and yet you are touting ipad compatibility? This is a windows only solution and you should inform people of this.

  • Margot is not my name

    Windows only iPad? Come on? Please tell me this can't be true…

  • Shea Steinberg- Practice Fusion

    Currently, this App. only works when remotely connected through a PC which you can then connect to any Apple mobile device. If you use a Mac computer,don't worry, this is only the first of many mobile solutions to come and we plan to create a native application.

  • Robert Rowley MD

    Practice Fusion is platform-agnostic. It runs on Mac as easily as Windows, and on any browser. The reason is that the user interface is built in Flash. Many Mac users (using anything except the iPad) use Practice Fusion without difficulty – it runs "natively" using the Mac Air (lightweight, and alredy has a keyboard) very nicely.

    The specific issue with iPad is that the iPad does not support Flash. Any browser that supports Flash will run Practice Fusion – it's not an Operating System issue (since Practice Fusion is not locally installed, the OS doesn't matter) – it's a browser issue. When Apple decided to release the iPad without Flash support, many of us were disappointed. Competitive touch-screen tablets that do have Flash support are starting to be released in the market.

    Yes, the LogMeIn integration is a work-around for the problem that the iPad doesn't support Flash. We needed to make sure that this wrapper around the Flash-based interface maintained HIPAA-level and NIST-level security, which it does.

    Additional actual mobile applications (i.e., something you download and run on your hand-held device) are part of our roadmap later in the year, for both the Mac OS and for Android app stores. These will be more function-focused handheld-appropriate (usable on a 4" screen) apps.

    You want to use Practice Fusion on a Mac backbone now? Either use the LogMeIn wrapper for iPad, or use something like the Mac Air (more designed as a true computer, rather than a media-display device, which how Apple described the intent of the iPad).