October 23, 2007 San Francisco, CA Practice Fusion, a leading force in healthcare IT, today announces the availability of its free, on-demand, no-risk Practice Management and EMR suite. With this launch, Practice Fusion is poised to change the dynamic in EMR adoption, significantly increasing independent practitioners' ability to quickly select and begin using world class practice management and EMR.

"Today marks the end of the era of big vendors taking advantage of independent physicians—we are empowering them to take control of their EMR decision," enthuses Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion. "Our Practice Management and EMR Suite, which is free and on-demand, eliminates the risk of those traditional systems and expedites the purchase and implementation processes. Our EMR allows practitioners to stay competitive and thrive in a world of constant change and growing responsibilities and still increase their overall quality of care."

Conventional decision cycles for EMR systems typically run in the 12 to 18 month timeframe. With Practice Fusion, the process can be condensed to as little as one day—without licensing or hosting fees, special hardware to purchase or complicated implementations to endure, Practice Fusion is disrupting the EMR space and challenging the leading vendors.

"To date, everything about EMR is painful. Cost, set-up time, and interruption of practice workflow has instilled fear in the hearts of the practitioner. Momentum and excitement is lost between contract signature and the first chart being entered," continued Howard. "We want to change that experience: make it less risky and more approachable; as easy for a practitioner to start using our EMR as setting up an email account. Beginning today it all changes, our on-line gateway for new members enables them to chart the same day."

"Practice Fusion represents an enormous breakthrough for independent practices like ours," explains Lisa Holmes, Practice Manager for Hayward Family Care. "It is a very user friendly, secure and feature-rich application that provides our physicians with unprecedented access to their medical records. We're so comfortable on it, we've completely abandoned paper charts."

"Practice Fusion has taken the common notion of an EMR and has delivered a solution that is truly innovative," contributes Cora Tellez, CEO Sterling HSA and former CEO and President Health Net. "Today, every physician needs an EMR, but EMR as we know it is too expensive and is not created for mass distribution to smaller practices. It requires intensive work to get it up and running. Practice Fusion's coupling of the on-demand model of the application with the physician's ability to sign up on their own puts quality EMR within reach of every physician."

With the goal of nation-wide adoption of EMR by 2015 looming ever present, Practice Fusion is ready to power the adoption. Interested physicians can start the process by visiting www.practicefusion.com/demo to register for a product demonstration.

About Practice Fusion
Practice Fusion addresses the complexities and critical needs of today's healthcare environments by proving a revolutionary application and delivery model for physicians and patients at no cost. Practice Fusion offers an integrated, on-demand healthcare platform delivered in a software-as-a-service model that eliminates the complexities associated with licensing, implementation, integration and support usually experienced with leading enterprise software solutions. Practice Fusion dramatically reduces the cost to the practice while enabling providers to deliver the highest level of care possible to their patients.

For additional information, please visit:
www.practicefusion.com
www.practicefusion.com/practicemgt.com
http://www.practicefusion.com/practitioners_resources.htm


Practice Fusion
Press Contact
Gail Romano
+1 415 346 7700
gromano@practicefusion.com


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