API

Practice Fusion tells iMedicalApps exclusive details of EMR App Store, launching next evolution of dynamic electronic health records

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Practice Fusion is a free, web-based electronic health record that has seen a rapid rate of adoption over the last two years and is currently the largest commercial EHR installation after Kaiser and the Veterans Affairs. In this interview with Matthew Douglass, VP of Product Development, we learn some of the fascinating story of Practice Fusion’s rise, its plans to expand its API (application programming interface) and launch an app store.

A milestone in electronic health record adoption: free, web-based Practice Fusion now is the largest commercial EHR

Yesterday, the folks at Practice Fusion announced they had passed an impressive milestone. There are now 5 million patients, or 2% of the US population, that are being served by physicians using this rapidly expanding EHR. Just three years after our free, web-based EMR’s official launch, we now serve 50,000 medical professionals and 5 million patients. Practice Fusion’s growth has accelerated so that we add more than half a million patients to the system each month. We now serve almost [Read more]

Wouldn’t It Be Great if EHRs (medical records) Supported Plug-Ins and Were More Like Firefox?

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I am currently migrating from one electronic health record (EHR) to another in my practice and feeling very sorry for myself. There ought to be a way to do this easily, I keep thinking to myself.  Despite all the talk of interoperability and health information exchanges (HIEs) that is all the buzz right now in health IT circles, it seems that some basic functionality that could help make doctors’ lives easier is still missing from EHRs. While being able to [Read more]