: PracticeFusion case suggests 6 health privacy pointers lfair June 8, 2016 | 9:01AM PracticeFusion case suggests 6 health privacy pointers By Lesley Fair Combine two of the most talked-about consumer protection topics – health privacy and consumer-generated online content – and what do you get? A proposed FTC settlement with PracticeFusion, the largest cloud-based electronic health records company in the country, and six compliance tips for others in the industry. One of San Francisco-based PracticeFusion’s primary products is an electronic records system for outpatient providers. In 2009, the company launched “Patient Fusion,” an online portal where patients whose providers were already using PracticeFusion could view or download their health information or transmit it to another provider. Patient Fusion also let patients send and receive secure messages from their providers. Fast forward several years and the company decided to expand Patient Fusion to include a public directory where current and prosp[...]