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Practice Fusion
What is Practice Fusion?
Practice Fusion empowers your practice to focus on what matters most - your patients. Thrive with a cloud-based ambulatory EHR platform used by 30,000 U.S. medical practices to deliver better care. With a best-in-class satisfaction rate, Practice Fusion is committed to delivering intuitive and easy-to-use health IT solutions to independent medical practices.
Access on most any device, streamlined charting, seamless e-prescribing, Phenomenal support, lab and imaging from 500+ centers.
Who Uses Practice Fusion?
Designed to exceed the needs of small practices, Practice Fusion is an easy-to-use EHR that makes e-prescribing, billing, charting and labs/imaging simple and secure from anywhere you can get online.
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Reviews of Practice Fusion
I've been using Practice Fusion for a little over a year and I'd have to say it's so easy to use.
Comments: The benefits greatly outweigh the disadvantages. I always have a peace of mind using this software with every use. I never have any issues logging in and if was to ever, resetting password is super easy. You have the option of resetting through a simple text to your phone or email with a 6 digit code to reset password. You can also access this software from anywhere in case you may need to adjust the schedule during non business hours.
Pros:
What I like most about this software is the navigation. Out of all the other EHR softwares, I grasp quickly to the ease of use. I like how the schedule, charts, task, messages etc. are layed out. It's a great EHR for first time Medical staff such as Medical Receptionist and Medical Assistants.
Cons:
Well no EHR software is perfect but I can honestly say that the only thing I wish could be better is how to search for patients by previous encounters.
A great budget option if you don't need customization
Comments: I initially implemented the product when it was a standalone product offered for free. It was an ambitious but limited piece of software that was eventually sold to Allscripts. Very soon after, the business model shifted from selling aggregated data and in-product advertising to a subscription model, but still remains very inexpensive. The system is very rigid in that it does not offer a lot of options for customizing or the ability to develop workflows specific to a practice, but it has all of the basics as well as some features that other vendors charge extra for (lab integrations, patient portal, etc.). For a more robust feature set, you may need to use the limited number of third-part integrations that are offered, which will have additional costs associated. Overall, it's one of the quickest and easiest EHR systems I've setup (eCW/Nextgen/Aria) and it works well because of the universal design/limited options. If you can get it to fit most of your needs (and you get a free trial to figure that out), then you probably won't find many options that can compete with it on price. If you have a large office and complicated systems, you might find other systems provide a better value proposition.
Pros:
Easy implementation (up and running in a day). Reasonably good feature set (lab integration, call and text reminders, patient portal). Very competitive price. Free to try.
Cons:
Very little customization. Initial navigation is not very intuitive. Requires annual commitment. Additional features use third party integrations and have additional costs associated. Lack of device integration.
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Practice Fusion
Comments: Great. We recommend to all our doctors who are looking for a better system.
Pros:
Practice Fusion is easy to use and a great way to keep electronic records. I love that it's web-based so I can get to it from anywhere.
Cons:
There is not really anything I don't like about it.
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From Bad To Words
Comments: From bad to worse, there's no end to this poor customer support performance.
Pros:
Easy to use for anyone at every level in the office.
Cons:
Customer support, functionality and frequent breakdowns. Mostly NOT supportive staff, burning ( wasting) your time and not providing answers. I've used this platform for over 10 years now, and it's going from bad to worse. I'm already shopping for an alternative.
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Great Stand-Alone EMR
Comments: Overall Practice Fusion is a pretty great EMR. The connectivity to back end service (the billing aspect) is not great, but there are plenty of things that make the software worth it, including clinical decision making support, drug interaction reminders/warnings and the ability to e-prescribe.
Pros:
Practice Fusion was very easy to set up and very user friendly to utilize. The system has a built in system of shared templates that can be customized to fit your practice and save your healthcare providers a substantial amount of time. The connectivity associated with e-prescribing is also a great feature that allows providers and staff to save time by e-prescribing directly from patient charts. Overall, for the price, Practice Fusion is a great prodcut.
Cons:
Some of the things that I think Practice Fusion could improve upon are the interconnectability between Practice Fusion and billing third-party billing softwares. Unfortunately, when connecting with your billing software, we have a significant amount of billing "clean up," and "claim scrubbing," work to do which can be pretty frustrating. Also, Practice Fusion also is requiring individuals to pay for updates to ICD-10 for 2021. I would respectfully suggest that if you offer an EMR, a portion of your product should automatically include ICD-10 updates. The system also currently lacks the ability to verify insurance eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Lastly, Practice Fusion just underwent a price increase, which is disappointing to some extent but hopefully these increase will address some of the issues described above.
