
Practice Fusion and the Value of Electronic Health Records
While in Texas recently I took the opportunity to spend time with Practice Fusion, an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) vendor that I’ve covered previously. Practice Fusion is an interesting vendor, providing a free EMR service to physicians. It boasts that its solution is used to manage the records of over 31 million patients across the […]

SaaS v. On-premises Software: Which One is More Green?
(The following is a guest post by Chris Thorman @ SoftwareAdvice.com) In case you haven’t heard (or aren’t obsessively following IT trends like we are), the great trend in software is the evolution from traditional “on-premises” software (e.g. client/server software installed at the office) to Software as a Service (SaaS) (i.e. web-based applications that are […]

Google Health Will Not Belly Flop but You Have to Take Charge
A few months ago I blasted both Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault for not being patient-focused – but I am not giving up on them. Later Krish discussed how adding pharmacy chains boost the value Google Health can provide. Just like the pharmacy story, today’s dispute relates to data transfer into these systems. Google Health […]