1.29.2010 – Solve the Problem
iPad missed the boat for health care
"I use Practice Fusion because it does everything an EMR should do, but it requires the adobe flash player. It's great because everything syncs and is stored off site and allows for secure messaging among office staff."
1.26.2010 – Mike Russo
"Unbelievably impressed with Pracitce Fusion's ease of use and layout!"
1.25.2010 – Care Innovators
Business Model Innovation in the EHR Industry: Vendors Offer Loans & Guarantees
"Allscripts, Ingenix, IBM, Cardinal Health, Practice Fusion, and other EHR vendors have announced loan programs for EHR clients. [Update: Practice Fusion's business model is based on a free EHR product, and they offer a HHS certification guarantee.] "
1.22.2010 – Health Content Advisors
Headline Commentary - Jan 1 -Jan 22
Practice Fusion receives $5m of $7.1 round
SF-based Practice Fusion raises $5m of anticipated $7.1 round for it's EHR software. Practice Fusion offers s/w for no charge and makes money with advertising–and has plans to sell data mined from customers."
1.22.2010 – BNET
A Conversation with Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard
1.22.2010 – Medicine and Technology
Free e-Prescribing with Practice Fusion (free EHR)
"You may have already heard this, but Practice Fusion (free EHR) now offers a free e-Prescribing solution. Have your DEA and NPI numbers ready."
1.22.2010 – Health Data Management
eClinicalWorks Unveils Stimulus Guarantee
"Other vendors with meaningful use guarantees include Allscripts, athenahealth, ChartLogic, e-MDs, GE Healthcare, Ingenix, Medsphere Systems, NextGen, Noteworthy Medical, Practice Fusion and SourceMedical."
1.22.2010 – Kevin MD
Did the governement get it right on EHR certification?
1.21.2010 – Health Business Blog
A conversation with Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard - Transcript
"Our last quarter was excellent. We were very excited about how we ended up the year. We delivered on our partnership with Salesforce.com and we now have a fully integrated personal health record that resides on the Salesforce platform. The benefit of this is that patients can log into the system and see all their medical history in real time. So everything from diagnoses to medications to lab data."
1.20.2010 – Advance for Health Information Professionals
The Highs and Lows of Downtime Solutions
"When information's held in clouds, providers are shielded from many of the quirks that affect local systems, including hardware failure and system crashes, according to Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion, a Web-based EHR vendor. "With cloud computing, you can go to any computer with an Internet connection and log in to the system immediately," he explained. "We had a practice whose office burned down; they were up and charting the next day from a hotel room"
1.20.2010 – Data Driven with a Human Touch
The Future of CCHIT
"To make this situation even more interesting is the perspective from Practice Fusion. You probably already realize that nobody speaks without self-interest in this muddy puddle we call Healthcare IT. As an upstart in the EMR/EHR space, Practice Fusion obviously enjoys watching the established vendors in the CCHIT organization squirm. The fact that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has contracted with Booz Allen Hamilton to develop testing methods and process of certification of EHR will keep the squirming going a while longer."
1.20.2010 – A New World Order Out of Chaos
RFID, GPS Technology and Electronic Surveillance
"However, there are many competitors in this space; the company cites EMR vendors such as eClinicalWorks in Massachusetts and Greenway in Georgia along with web based "Health 2.0″ services such as RMD Networks in Colorado and Practice Fusion in California."
1.18.2010 – TechDrawl
mdDigest's Open Source Approach to EMR
"However, there are many competitors in this space; the company cites EMR vendors such as eClinicalWorks in Massachusetts and Greenway in Georgia along with web based "Health 2.0″ services such as RMD Networks in Colorado and Practice Fusion in California"
1.17.2010 – AOL Daily Finance (30 comments - 230 diggs)
Health Care System: Feds Push New Paperless Effort
"Companies whose software lets medical providers ditch paper are racing to ensure that doctors and hospitals using their programs can meet the new criteria. "The bar that has been set by the new guidelines is high," says Ryan Howard, C.E.O. of Practice Fusion, a San Francisco software company whose Web-based electronic medical records are used by more than 25,000 medical providers. Howard praises the new standard: "It really is pretty impressive -- it really does affect the quality of care.
Meeting the new requirements, Howard says, could take longer for what he calls "legacy vendors." Companies like All Scripts (MDRX) and eClinicalWorks offer electronic medical records systems as software that must be installed; Practice Fusion's system is Web-based, hosted on an outside server. "Let's say they knew exactly what steps they had to take to meet the new criteria," says Howard. "It's still going to be a two-year process."
1.16.2010 – EMR Recommendations
Connect Wise Forums (IT consultants)
"Feedback on Practice Fusion, built on salesforce, is also appreciated (LOGIN REQUIRED)"
1.15.2010 – San Francisco Business Times
Electronic records firm nabs $5M
"Practice Fusion Inc., a startup that provides free electronic health record services to physicians, has garnered $5 million in new capital and expects to nab $2 million more, according to a Jan. 5 SEC filing. The San Francisco-based company has attracted VC and angel capital from Band of Angels, Felicis Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures."
1.15.2010 – MedicExchange
Practice Fusion Launches Free e-Prescribing
"Practice Fusion announced the launch of its free e-prescribing system for physicians. Practice Fusion, the fastest growing Electronic Health Record (EHR) community in the country, now offers doctors the ability to electronically transmit prescriptions to pharmacies at no cost."
1.15.2010 – EHR Reporting
Practice Fusion Launches Free e-Prescribing
"Practice Fusion is one of the free EHR systems that is currently running in a cloud environment. The company is based in San Francisco and it has been well received considering the price tag of free.
The company just announced that they will start offering free e-Prescribing, one of the most talked about aspect of EHR systems."
1.15.2010 – Healthcare Informatics
Practice Fusion to Offer Free E-prescribing
"San Francisco-based Practice Fusion is launching a free e-prescribing system for physicians.
According to the company — which provides a Web-based, EHR system — the e-Rx system will include: connection to over 65,000 pharmacies; a continuously updated medication library; same-day enrollment for most providers; ability to use e-Rx as a stand-alone feature or as part of the EHR system; free set-up assistance, migration help, training and support; refill requests delivered back to the practice directly from the pharmacy; prescription details delivered to the PHR online; and qualification for the Medicare e-prescribe bonus."
1.14.2010 – HISTALK Practice
HISTALK News for January 14
"Practice Fusion, a company already offering a free EHR, launches its free e-prescribing product."
1.14.2010 – Health Business Blog
A conversation with Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard
"I checked in with Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard yesterday for an update on the progress of the company's free, web-based electronic health record."
1.13.2010 – Health Data Management
Free EHR Adds E-Prescribing
"The module, used standalone or as part of the EHR, also offers a continuously updated medication library, refill requests, free set-up assistance and delivery of prescription details to a patient's personal health record from San Francisco-based Practice Fusion."
1.13.2010 – Healthcare IT News (homepage)
EHR provider offers free e-prescribing
"Officials at Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based provider of free electronic health record software, announced Wednesday that the company has launched a free e-prescribing system for physicians."
1.13.2010 – AccuSource
EHR provider offers free e-prescribing
"We're making this technology freely available to any doctor in the U.S. with no strings attached," said CEO Ryan Howard. "No one else offers a free EHR with e-prescribing like Practice Fusion. No one else can have it up and running for a doctor as fast."
1.12.2010 – Healthcare IT News
Technology Companies Go for Sales with New Deals
"Electronic health record vendors – among them Allscripts, Ingenix, IBM, Cardinal Health and Practice Fusion – have announced EHR loans and guarantee deals in recent weeks."
1.12.2010 – Health Data Management
More Vendors Offer Stimulus Guarantee
"Other vendors with meaningful use incentive payment guarantees include athenahealth Inc., ChartLogic Inc., e-MDs Inc., GE Healthcare, Medsphere Systems Corp., NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc., Noteworthy Medical Systems Inc., Practice Fusion and SourceMedical."
1.11.2010 – OPEN forum from American Express
Negotiating your way to savings on rent
"Take Ryan Howard. The CEO of 20-employee Practice Fusion, which sells electronic health record systems for doctors, recently moved his San Francisco business to new 7,500 square foot office space and, he says, "We got the rent at a song." In fact, according to Howard, the same space would have cost twice as much just two years ago."
1.11.2010 – For Body and Mind
Testing an Electronic Health Record System for My Practice
"For this trial, I will be testing Practice Fusion's Electronic Health Record, and hopefully it's Personal Health Record (PHR) component as well. Practice Fusion's EHR system is fully compliant with all relevant privacy laws, including HIPAA. Your personal information will be secure and will not be shared without your permission."
1.8.2010 – Glenn Laffel (Reprint)
Health Care Reform and the Art of Partisan Politics
1.8.2010 – VentureBeat
Practice Fusion captures $5M for medical records software
"Practice Fusion, a major provider of electronic health record services, has brought in $5 million of an anticipated $7.1 million in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, the company is backed by Band of Angels, Felicis Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures."
1.8.2010 – Trendbird (Korea)
Practice Fusion Raises $5M for Health IT (EHR)
"Videos and photos"
1.6.2010 – Healthcare IT News
ONC's Tour-de Force for EHR certification
1.3.2010 – OakLeaf Systems
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/31/2009
"Glenn Laffel, MD's Meaningful Use Quick Reference Guide of 12/31/2009 summarizes CMS's draft criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records...Dr. Laffel is a physician with a PhD in Health Policy from MIT and serves as Practice Fusion's Senior VP, Clinical Affairs. Practice Fusion is a free, Web-based Electronic Health Record solution."