The largest provider of medical records Practice Fusion has debut its iPad app. The service, which is free for physicians and patients, has grown to be the juggernaut in the electronic medical record space hosting three times as many records as healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente or the VA. Practice Fusion makes its money by being a marketplace for pharmaceutical, device manufacturers and labs. Companies pay for advertising on the Practice Fusion platform to get their products in front of a customer base which $40 billion per year.
At its core, though, Practice Fusion’s goal would be to make permanent medical record access instant and efficient. For this reason it first showed an iPad application for doctors on the run, created by Cooper, the firm headed by Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic. It safely provides use of records therefore if a physician will get an after-hrs call in regards to a patient, they’ve almost all their necessary medical data at hands to allow them to make informed choices.
Showing priority for usability, doctors can easily see their day’s visits and instantly dive into each patient’s chief complaint, allergic reactions, problems, medicines, genealogy, hospitalizations, and much more. Doctors can record patient dictations of the signs and symptoms, and mix their very own assessment and plan for treatment with pre-defined treatment plans for common conditions to reduce typing. They are able to also view lists of tasks, and receive push notices of updates using their office.
I like what Practice Fusion is doing in the EMR space and hope they can use their considerable resources to keep innovating and raising the quality of healthcare to the next level.