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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:51:42 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:20:00 +0000

As a consultant I have seen a variety of these solutions on the market, but feel that cost is still the biggest issue to physicians and this may address that issue. I have seen their product on the Adobe Showcase and must say it looks better than most:
Practice Fusion EMR Featured In Adobe Showcase
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By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:05:00 +0000

Free EMR is a good way to go. Those starting to use them have to be aware that there will be a cost involved in terms of your workflow changes and the way you will practice after you start using any EMR -in that respect it does not matter if you got the EMR free or you paid for it.

I am a proponent of SaaS and RIA EMRs as they get the flexibility into the product to incorporate several modalities of delevering healthcare at various healthcare provider facilities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:33:00 +0000

Practice Fusion recently beat out AthenaHealth for the Fierce Healthcare’s Innovative Solutions for 2007: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/innovators/2007/practicefusion

By: Even Walser

Even Walser — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:36:00 +0000

Dr. Shreeve,

As the Director of Sales for Practice Fusion I wanted to help clear up several misconceptions surrounding our model. Additionally, I would like to thank you for your positive comments regarding our technology. Just to be absolutely clear our model is not built around nor utilizes AdWare. We have integrated direct to physician messaging within our solution suite. The messaging that is delivered is relevant, exclusively health focused, text based and discrete. Adware would imply that our software installs an ad server on our client’s machines which is simply not the case. Our solution is delivered via a SOA architecture and RIA (rich internet application). which has embedded messaging, which is relevant and discrete. It is completely private, non-intrusive, and physicians have no obligation to click on ads. One of the major barriers to entry has been price for most physicians. Our model eliminated this barrier. If physicians do not want to see the ads, we offer an ad-free version of the solutions for a nominal $250/month per seat.

I hope this clears up any notion that our solution is adware. Once again I sincerely appreciate your interest in our model and your positive comments about our company.

Regards,
Even Walser

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:24:00 +0000

I had a real kick reading Fred Trotter’s pirce about in in Free Software Magazine. Wave-riding, deceptive folks…

Speak out about it in order to pressure them to walk out in shame. They dilute the terms Open Source and Free software, which ruins it for everybody else.

By: Shahid

Shahid — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:45:00 +0000

Good article, Scott. Having built out half dozen EMRs in my career, it’s good to see a company like Practice Fusion giving adware a try — I don’t think they have anything to lose.

I hope they can succeed where other EMRs have failed (or at least not done so well). The technology behind EMRs is embarrassingly easy to create nowadays — most EMRs are just simple databases that act like electronic typewriters and simple filing cabinets. In fact, kids in high school doing game programming are doing more difficult things with computer science concepts than EMRs. What’s really hard about EMRs are dealing with the integration and usability headaches — which are no easy tasks. However, if you create a single-site solution where all the users connect together in one place and not have to worry about cross-site integration and the mismatch between concepts across EMR packages then it could be a winning solution.