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Founded in 2005, Practice Fusion competes in the crowded electronic medical records market and discovered a niche by offering free software that was popular amo
by mbesto 9y ago
Founded in 2005, Practice Fusion competes in the crowded electronic medical records market and discovered a niche by offering free software that was popular among small and solo physician practices.
Instead of charging for its software, Practice Fusion generates the bulk of its revenues through advertising to doctors.
Oh what could go wrong....
- Bucephalus355 9y agoSilly. Doctors could just use OpenEMR, free and meets most of the regulatory standards. http://www.open-emr.org http://www.open-emr.org
- ch4s3 9y agoI've met exactly 2 doctors who have actually used OpenEMR and they were both researchers. It is quite nice, but the last time I looked it wasn't trivial to set up and run. I think it one of those "it's free if you time is worth nothing" kind of things. And, there are some other EHRs out there that are nice and won't break the bank.
- JshWright 9y ago> there are some other EHRs out there that are nice and won't break the bank. In fact, due to the various "pay for performance" models out there, a good EHR will make you money (making it easier to prove you are meeting various thresholds for the quality measures in question).
- ch4s3 9y agoYeah, quality measure reporting is key, the good ones do that well for sure. However I think they're missing the ability to monitor quality on a day to day and week to week basis for the most part. It's also really hard to track quality trends.
- JshWright 9y agoI'd be interested to hear more about what you think could be improved. In the vast majority of cases, new data points only occur during a patient visit. "Day to day" or "week to week" tracking aren't really useful in those cases, "visit to visit" is as good as you're going to get.
- ch4s3 9y agoShoot me an email, and I'll happily share my thoughts. My email address is in my profile.