$34 Million Series C Funding for Practice Fusion

Artis Ventures led the Series C funding round for Practice Fusion. They raised $34 million in this round with them now having raised over $64 million total. The full list of investors joining the Series C round includes long-time investors Felicis Ventures and Band of Angels, plus Glynn Capital, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Founders Fund, Morgenthaler Ventures, Scott Banister, SV Angel, Ghost Angel, and several other institutional and individual investors.

Some other good stats from the Techcrunch article on the EHR investment:
*Currently 170 employees, and expect to reach 250 employees by year’s end
*Added 4x a many users as Allscripts last quarter (Who Ryan Howard considers their largest competitor)
*2012 Q1 Revenue was “comfortably in the seven figure range”
*Hosts 40 million patient records
*150,000 doctors signed up (This is their signed up user number, not their active user number)
*7 months ago they were at 25 million records and 130,000 signups

I also found this Techcrunch quote fascinating: “Howard was careful choosing Artis Ventures to lead the round, telling me “it’s a wedding. You’re married to that investor. Artis is a hedge fund with a venture fund. It’s preparing us. It’s who would be buyers in a public market” indicating the company has its sights on an IPO.”

It’s worth noting that the founding doctor/CMO (Chief Medical Officer), Robert Rowley, MD, also recently left Practice Fusion. He’s still actively blogging about healthcare IT on Robert Rowley, MD and he tells me it was an amicable departure. I think it’s noteworthy though since Dr. Rowley was the physician face of Practice Fusion since the start of the company.

There’s no doubt that Practice Fusion is now a major player in the EHR world. Although, I’m still interested to see if they can live up to a $64 million financing at around a half a billion dollar valuation. I wonder how quickly things like having their software built using Flash will catch up with them. Plus, Practice Fusion was designed with the small doctor office in mind. Will it be able to evolve its platform to be able to support larger group practices?

I do think they have the right culture when it comes to opening up their data to other outside developers that will be required for them to have a widely adopted healthcare platform. We’ll see how the healthcare ecosystem responds to that type of open platform. They now have plenty of money in the bank to be able to find out.

Full Disclosure: Practice Fusion is an advertiser on a couple Healthcare Scene websites.

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