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Contributing Writer · July 23, 2010
EHR Engineers: Behind the Scenes at Practice Fusion
We often talk about our business in terms of the Practice Fusion “Community”. It’s more than just a nice phrase: with over 50,000 medical professionals registered on our system ..it really does feel like a giant village most days.
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Contributing Writer · July 22, 2010
How does HL7 fit into EHR / EMR interoperability?
Modern healthcare technology needs to communicate and share information with others. That seems like an obvious statement. However, this has not been the legacy of the health IT industry – historically, Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been built as large, all-inclusive enterprise systems designed to...
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Contributing Writer · July 9, 2010
The Practice Fusion API Challenge!
Practice Fusion is thrilled to be teaming with Health 2.0 and the US Department of Health and Human services to issue a Developer Challenge this summer. This is your chance to use Practice Fusion’s brand new API to plug in patient-driven health data to one...
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Contributing Writer · July 8, 2010
A fundamental issue around EMR Usability
Designing a good Electronic Health Record (EHR) system – one which balances usability and flexibility with structure and interoperability – is a challenge (to say the least). Not just for us, but for the entire industry.
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Contributing Writer · July 2, 2010
EMR Usability Evaluation: An EHR Tool for Physicians
The first post in this series described the need for a tool physicians can use to evaluate EMR usability. The second post set out a conceptual framework for developing such a tool. In this post, we present an actual EMR usability evaluation tool.
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