2.11.2010 – InformationWeek
Doctors Use of EHRs Growing
"The survey was based on telephone interviews with 1,000 U.S. adults from Feb. 5-7. Practice Fusion, which offers physicians a Web-based EHR system, has posted a whitepaper on the study online."
2.10.2010 – AccuSource
Patients Say Docs Going Digital
"About 48 percent of patients in a recent survey said their doctor was using an electronic health record during their most recent visit to their physician.
A little more than 30 percent of survey respondents said their doctor was still using paper charts and notes in a folder and 11.8 percent did not know or remember. The report, which was conducted by GfK Roper, a division of GfK Custom Research North America, for San Francisco EHR provider Practice Fusion, surveyed 1,000 adults nationwide."
2.10.2010 – ICMCC News
Doctors Increase Use of Electronic Health Records
"The health IT landscape has changed fundamentally in the first year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law. American patients are seeing their doctors make the switch to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the fastest growing EHR community in the US. Practice Fusion also found widespread expansion of the health IT sector, demand for an estimated 100,000 new jobs, creation of higher education programs and signs of disruptive innovation, all detailed in a new whitepaper entitled The ARRA Stimulus Plan in Action."
2.10.2010 – Medical News
Practice Fusion patient survey: Doctors are making use of EHR systems
"American patients are seeing their doctors make the switch to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the fastest growing EHR community in the US."
2.10.2010 – TMCnet Healthcare Technology
Doctors Increase Use of Electronic Health Records
"However, either way you slice it [Practice Fusion's] "free SaaS-based" EMR model has put the cat amongst the pigeons."
2.10.2010 – EMR Daily News
Survey: Patients Report their Doctors are Increasing Use of EHRs on the One-Year Anniversary of ARRA
"ARRA's $19 billion for health information technology has effectively created a black swan. During a deep recession, the health IT sector is booming and how we think about health data is being fundamentally redefined," said Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion. "I see the change in the exponential growth of our company. Doctors see it through the availability of innovative new technology. Educators see it through grants and the creation of new health IT courses. Patients see it in their doctor's office."
2.8.2010 – Healthcare IT News
EHR Redux
"Taken together, these reforms will have profound changes on the marketplace for EHR technology over the next five years. Already, new entrants are poised to bring innovative products and services to the 85% of physicians who don't yet use EHR technology in their practices. PracticeFusion, Optum/UnitedHealth, Medicity, RMDNetworks, Relay Health, Covisint, DocSite, AthenaHealth, and McKesson/HP are among the companies who have recently announced a "meaningful use EHR technology" offering that makes use of a "platform" with some degree of exchangeable, modular applications, along the lines of what is described in the IFR. And there will be many others. Costs for these products are generally lower, and in some cases significantly lower, than the comprehensive EHRs with which they will be competing."
2.6.2010 – 33 Bits of Entropy
The Secret Life of Data
There are lots of companies known to sell "anonymized" customer data: for example Practice Fusion "subsidizes its free EMRs by selling de-identified data to insurance groups, clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies."
2.5.2010 – MSP Mentor
Healthcare deadline could yield MSP opportunities
"Consulting. Service providers without a data center to host solutions can still partner with vendors. Practice Fusion, which offers a hosted electronic health records system, teams with certified consultants who help customers with technology adoption."
2.2.2010 – Medical Smartphones
Allscripts Remote (access your EHR using a smartphone)
"Dr. Glenn Laffel, writing at EHR Bloggers, has a very insightful article about how the public option "compromise" that would allow states to opt out is likely to only muddy the waters and create a fragmented "public option" available to people depending on where they live"