Practice Fusion 2.0 Is Now Availalble

Today we launched our latest incarnation of our EMR product suite, Practice Fusion 2.0.  There are some key attributes of this product that make it very unique and powerful in the market place. 

For starters, it’s an RIA.  What’s an RIA you ask? RIA stands for ‘Rich Internet Application’.  Rich Internet applications are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. (More can be read about RIAs here.)

Take a look at the product screenshots here, or register for a demo or even sign-up (Why not?  There are no hassles, no obligations and no one will call and bother you!) and you will see that the user interface is extremely elegant, intuitive and simple – more so than any other application on the market. 

Next to cost and implementation, usability is a major key factor in the overall adoption of an EMR by a physician practice.  A poor interface will kill productivity and as well as cause anxiety and hostility when attempting to get your staff to start using a new system -  just ask anyone who works for Kaiser about the adoption turmoil experienced during the EPIC implementation (which from my understanding is still persisting).

As I mentioned in my last posting, Practice Fusion 2.0 runs on a Mac, Windows or even a Linux.  We are the first EMR company to have a product that runs on Google Chrome, Apple/Mac Safari 3, Mozilla Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 Browsers. 

There are also some very innovative features, including the ability to search across all of your templates and our extensive template library, view and copy past charts, see frequent diagnoses for the patient that you are working with, associate emails to the patient chart and more.

Beyond just being more intuitive and he new features, there are significant benefits from our new product.  I will detail these, along with other benefits from a Software-as-a-Service model in another posting next week.

-Ryan Howard
CEO, Practice Fusion