Practice Fusion, a major provider of electronic health record services announced a partnership today with BioReference Laboratories -- one of the largest full-service laboratories in the U.S. The Practice Fusion system will allow physicians at BioReference to easily view, add information to, and redistribute patients' health records.
The PracticeFusion platform allows doctors from various facilities and regions to continually update individual patients' charts. It also allows them to prescribe medication over the internet, keep track of appointments and billing, and provide orderly customer support. All doctors need to access this system is an internet connection and a regular login.
Because PracticeFusion will channel required tests directly to lab workers, and allow them to upload lab results in an easy and timely fashion -- it should also benefit patients who have traditionally been kept waiting for laboratory feedback.
So far, PracticeFusion is used by 20,000 physicians in all 50 states, but it is still growing primarily through large partnerships like the one with BioReference. It raised an unspecified amount of funding from Salesforce.com in August.