Canvas Medical is an EHR and revenue cycle management platform that focuses on providing a complete UI for clinicians while providing SDKs and APIs for extending capabilities. It provides out-of-the-box features for scheduling, charting, ordering for labs, medications, and referrals, claims and patient payments, clinical data exchange, and workflows for collaboration and results reporting. Their SDK and a FHIR-based API enable creating new workflows within the application and integrating third party applications.

Canvas Medical is an EHR and revenue cycle management platform that focuses on providing a complete UI for clinicians while providing SDKs and APIs for extending capabilities.

Read/Write APIs

HITRUST CSF

SOC 2 Type 2

Labs

Docs

51-200

Ambulatory Practice

ePrescribing

Cash Pay

Fee for Service

FHIR

EPCS

ONC Health IT (2015 Edition)

Digital Health Provider

Canvas

Virtual-First Provider

Commercial Health Plan

Diagnostic Center

Primary Care Clinic

Specialty Practice

Provider / Payer

Cardiology

Primary Care

Gastroenterology

Metabolic Health

Other

Color

Marley Medical

Pulmonology

Carda Health

Medically Home

Nephrology

Duo Health

Patina Health

SCAN Health Plan

Vivante

Neurology

eClinicalWorks

Implementation Team

Product Oversight

- *Product Usage:* Canvas's EHR is used for scheduling patient appointments, logging activities such as phone calls, visits, changes to a patient's profile, condition and history, and it is also used for telehealth appointments and claims generation and management.
- *Strengths:* Canvas's strengths lie in its flexibility and customization capabilities, its functionality that allows users to create automations based on actions or notes in a patient's chart and its robust API documentation and integration features.
- *Weaknesses:* Areas where Canvas falls short include the management and generation of claims, tracking patient risk adjustment and quality measures, and also navigating their backend data for reporting purposes; additionally, the system sometimes experiences bugs and freezes.
- *Overall Judgment:* Despite some limitations and issues, Canvas is a generally stable Electronic Health Record system that provides a higher degree of customization and flexibility than other comparable systems, and it is well suited to those with technical know-how who are comfortable with configuring a system to suit their needs.

Athenahealth

Elation

User

- *Product Usage:* Canvas used for recording chart notes, storing lab information, prescribing medications, conducting lab orders when available, and executing billing tasks.
- *Strengths:* The product offers a reliable platform with automation functionality, the ability to easily identify the correct pharmacies for medication orders, and a flexible tasking feature.
- *Weaknesses:* There are limitations with the invoicing system, reporting capabilities, communication tools among providers, medication history tracking, and tasking functionality is still basic.
- *Overall Judgment:* The reviewers are generally positive towards the product, praising its reliability, automations, and customizable tooling; despite recognizing improvements could be made in the billing, reporting, and task features.

- *Product Usage:* Canvas is being used as the company's electronic medical record for charts and billing, recent usage of its task management feature has been introduced, and scheduling feature is being considered.
- *Strengths:* The interface is user-friendly, the task management feature is effective for managing workload and workflow, and the autosave feature is appreciated.
- *Weaknesses:* The knowledge center is not as helpful as it could be, locating specific settings can be challenging for administrators, command-driven entries can slow down workflow for providers, and the limitation in dashboard field customizations obstructs quick information access.
- *Overall Judgment:* Despite identified areas for improvement, majority feedback has been positive, particularly when considering a shift from their previous EMR system, Athena, and would recommend Canvas with noted considerations.

- *Product Usage:* Canvas is primarily used for managing patients’ clinical charts, creating claims, and dealing with patients’ claims and profiles.
- *Strengths:* Canvas offers more visibility and a clearer workflow when dealing with patients’ claims and profiles compared to previous product.
- *Weaknesses:* Canvas has some issues with system setup, such as wrong population of multiple locations in script ordering and missing data fields when using the claim edit feature. However, these issues are believed to be due to user error and not Canvas itself.
- *Overall Judgment:* Overall, the product is praised for its ease of use and customization options, with a recommendation from the review to take full advantage of its capabilities.

Purchasing Team

- **Product Usage:** Canvas is used for charting, patient management, claims tracking, scheduling and sending reminders and integrates with telehealth through Doxy.me for video appointments.
- **Strengths:** Canvas offers real-time access to data, flexible configurations, protocols for tracking patient needs, and a robust FHIR API which allows extensive customization and integration capabilities.
- **Weaknesses:** Areas for improvement include high user interface sophistication, limited revenue cycle management functionality, and a more structured approach to tasking.
- **Overall Judgment:** Canvas, described as the Salesforce of EMRs, is highly appreciated for its emphasis on allowing users to build their features and regular performance improvements, despite a few bug encounters.

Healthie

- *Product Usage:* Canvas is primarily used by the customer's care coordination team, social workers, and nurses, as well as insurance navigation staff and genetic counselors for structured and unstructured documentation. 
- *Strengths:* Canvas's strengths lie in its customization and flexibility, Canvas’s attentive responses to customer feedback, and impressive ongoing efforts to improve features and customer experience.
- *Weaknesses:* Despite its strengths, Canvas has some limitations, such as its handling of reporting features, integration with Claim.MD, a not fully-featured scheduling and messaging platform, and a manual  provider directory feature.
- *Overall Judgment:* Overall, Canvas has been a good choice for the company, providing valuable features and demonstrating strong product growth over time.

- *Product Usage:* This reviewer uses Canvas for managing detailed documentation and maintaining clinical records for patients in a virtual specialty clinic.
- *Strengths:* Canvas's simplicity, efficient clinical notes, and modern UI are highlighted strengths of the product.
- *Weaknesses:* The reviewer pointed out the limited and unreliable API functionality and the product's presumption of a standard clinical model as weaknesses.
- *Overall Judgment:* Despite its limitations, the reviewer believes that Canvas may be a suitable tool for organizations with basic clinical documentation needs.

Behavioral Health

Community Health Center

- *Product Usage:* The product, Canvas, was used as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and a care management system for non-clinicians and nurse practitioners in a tech-enabled service provider for chronic care management.
- *Strengths:* The product was easy to customize, quick and collaborative to implement, and priced competitively.
- *Weaknesses:* The product experienced frequent performance issues, had limited capabilities, lacked robust APIs, and struggled with scheduling and patient data segregation. 
- *Overall Judgment:* Despite the ease of initial setup and customization, the persistent technical issues and a lack of certain crucial functionality led to platform migration.