Matthew Douglass – Practice Fusion's VP of Engineering
Matthew Douglass leads Practice Fusion's technology team as the Vice President of Engineering. As the founding engineer for the company, Matthew was instrumental in developing Practice Fusion's Electronic Health Record system and personally coded the underlying technology framework that enables rapid development within Practice Fusion's EHR and PHR. Now leading a large group of engineers, he is responsible for planning and scaling the architecture, management, implementation and maintenance of Practice Fusion's EHR for its fast-growing community.
Matthew came to Practice Fusion with an extensive history building forward-looking systems that continue to protect sensitive data in the financial services, telecom and energy sectors. Through his work at Fisher Investments, Suez Energy North America, and CMS Energy, Matthew gained experience creating and expanding scalable applications for large businesses. He also has founded two successful technology consulting businesses.
Expert in driving iterative change, Matthew personally reviews feature requests from the Practice Fusion community and leads the product management team to implement monthly system and feature upgrades. In his time with Practice Fusion, Matthew has managed hundreds of successful product releases and scaled the system from zero users to over 100,000. Matthew has spoken on Health IT at Health 2.0, SD Forum, Health:Tech Next Generation, Analyze This! Challenge and Future of Health Innovation.
He has a degree in Mathematical and Computer Sciences from Colorado School of Mines.
About Matthew
- Title: Vice President of Engineering
- Joined Practice Fusion: September 2007
- Hometown: Amarillo, TX
- Outside of the office: Running marathons, playing softball and rooting for the Texas Rangers
- Passionate about: Unlocking health data in paper charts in an effort to streamline health communication and give patients direct access to their information
- Expertise: Health information technology, SaaS, cloud computing, .Net, data protection, scalable services and databases, managed service providers, SQL, API, Scrum development, data encryption, building engineering teams, management, iterative development, XML integrations, HL7 integrations
Matthew said:
"Our prediction? 2010 is going to be a COLOSSAL year for health IT...It's a booming sector and one that is being turned upside down at the same time as new vendors push out the legacy hardware systems. Cloud computing, PHR, public health exchanges, iPhone apps…healthcare is finally catching up to the rest of the country." (Geekazine.com)
"The user's experience is at the forefront of every engineering decision we make," said Matthew Douglass, Practice Fusion's Vice President of Engineering. "Not only do we give great service and support, we try to remain humble and never assume that we know what is best. Our effort, passion, sacrifice and dedication are guided by our interactions with the best resource we have: our users." (The Medical News)
"Believe it or not, I still personally read and seriously consider every single inbound feature request coming from our 50,000+ users. The vast majority of our users are perfectly content with how our EHR and PHR software applications currently function, but that doesn't mean we rest on our laurels. My personal goal is to improve that contentedness factor from "vast" to "complete". A lofty goal, for sure, but as long as there are things to improve upon, we'll be listening to our users to make the experience better for them." (HIStalk Mobile)