Design principles are a set of foundational criteria that describe an approach to design. Used together with design guidelines, they are used as a source of truth during the design process and they steer designers towards creating user-focused, functional, and engaging products.

The Practice Fusion design team spent a day working, hiking, and sharing ideas to kick off a 2016 Design Vision initiative. A great location, a beautiful day, and a group of creative minds — the perfect recipe for a great offsite. Here’s how it went down.

“The task of the designer is to give access to the subtle and the difficult.” — Edward Tufte

As adoption of certified electronic health records (EHRs) continues to increase, more office-based physicians are setting up electronic laboratory ordering to help increase practice efficiency. By eliminating the manual processes associated with paper-based orders, electronic lab ordering in an EHR saves time, improves order accuracy...

Practice Fusion joined a growing number of health IT vendors that have signed the interoperability pledge recently introduced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While signing the HHS pledge represents an initial step for many EHR vendors on the path toward interoperability,...