While it may seem counterintuitive, a web-based EMR can be significantly more secure than both the client-server model, which involves hosting your own server in your office, and paper. And Practice Fusion’s EMR definitely is.
Legacy systems that run on a server in your office are susceptible to the same catastrophic failures as paper. What if there is a fire or flood in your office? That data on your server is gone. On the other hand Practice Fusion actually has a user who had a fire in their office and was able to access all their data the next morning.
Of course, you must be wondering if your data is protected against the wrong people accessing it. Practice Fusion provides bank-level security for your data. This includes armed guards, biometric security, world-class hosting facilities and the highest level of encryption available. This is the same security used for your online banking.
With our web-based model, we can provide HIPAA compliance for your data. Other EMR vendors cannot because they don’t know where the server is kept in the office. Practice Fusion can also provide users a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.9% uptime, which we regularly surpass. Other EMR vendors cannot because their uptime is only as good as the hardware in the office. With legacy vendors, if the server goes down you’re on your own in fixing it.
It’s like electricity. You don’t want to worry about keeping your own power grid up and running. You just want to plug an appliance into the outlet and have it work.
Security is a primary concern for providers and it must be for an EMR vendor as well. The more you learn about the web-based model, the more you will understand that it is leaps and bounds beyond the security offered by the client-server model.
Derek Ward
Trainer, Product Evangelist
Practice Fusion
