Practice Fusion (mini review)

Most recently, there has been a great deal of “buzz” around Practice Fusion's EMR offering. Upon initial pass, it clearly has a very user-friendly environment with a fair amount of customization. Two glaring downsides, however are:
1. Lack of iPad/iPhone compatibility
2. No integration with voice recognition software, ala MacSpeech Dictate or, to the best of my knowledge, Dragon Naturally Speaking

These seeming “deficiencies” are rather surprising, particularly given the ubiquity of voice recognition software in healthcare as well as the growing popularity of iPads/iPhones in healthcare. Although you could access the Practice Fusion (portal running on an office desktop client) via VNC, this is not an optimal solution.

Certainly a more comprehensive review is in order; however, these two limitations make it difficult to recommend this offering for Mac-based offices.