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Practice Fusion

Health TechUSAClosed 2020

Total Raised

$157M

Peak Valuation

$1.50B

Employees

Year Collapsed

2020

Business model

Free electronic health record (EHR) software, monetized via data and pharmaceutical advertising.

In brief

Offered free electronic health record software to doctors, then generated revenue by allowing an opioid manufacturer to design clinical alerts nudging physicians toward prescribing its products, in exchange for payment. The Department of Justice charged the company in 2020 for it…

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Key facts

Founded
2005
Closed
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Industry
Health Tech
Employees
Revenue
Undisclosed
Founders
Ryan Howard

Related failures

Often compared with: Epic Systems, athenahealth.