Practice Fusion in DC for summit on interoperability

Recently had the pleasure of spending a great night out with our friends Emily Peters and Tom McMennamin at Practice Fusion.  After serving 22 patients in a very busy day for us yesterday, we had a blast at Ris since E & T were in town for a local conference to discuss the importance of EMR and EHR interoperability with major government institutions.  Various government reps were present for this two-day extravaganza of the minds, including those from the Social Security Administration.  Turns out that PF is working on developing many things, including a bridge to communicate important medical records electronically to the SSA efficiently when patients apply for disability benefits support.  I’ve completed two such requests for records recently in the past two weeks and it’s currently all on paper.  What a pain and how inefficient!

After a long first day at the conference, Emily and Tom were still alive and bursting with energy enough to meet up with several local area docs and practice managers to discuss the latest and greatest updates.  We got to ooh and ahh at all the progress in Practice Fusion’s ongoing meteoric rise over the past several years.  They are now around 100 employees and will be moving into a fantastic new larger space in San Francisco within the next few months to better accommodate their mission to provide a great EHR, EMR system with top-notch interoperability.  Go PF!

Dr. West is an endocrinologist in private practice in Washington, DC.  He completed fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. West opened The Washington Endocrine Clinic, PLLC, as a solo practice in 2009.  He can be reached at doctorwestindc@gmail.com.

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Dr. Michael West

Dr. West is an endocrinologist in private practice in Washington, DC. He completed fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. West opened The Washington Endocrine Clinic, PLLC in 2009. He can be contacted at doctorwestindc@gmail.com.

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