Canvas Medical EMR Gets Full SDK
The Canvas Medical EMR has released a full software development kit for building custom plugins directly within clinical workflows. The SDK includes support for the FHIR API and provides AI-powered scaffolding to help engineers build and deploy custom analytics and automation tools.
- Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, has raised $44 million in total funding, including a $24 million Series B round in 2022. The company is ONC-certified, a federal standard that allows its customers to be fully reimbursed in value-based care models with Medicare and Medicaid. - The SDK enables developers to build and deploy custom Python packages called "Extensions" that respond to over 650 clinical and operational events in real-time. This allows for deep customization without the high cost of building an EMR from scratch, which can exceed $500,000 for complex systems. - Support for the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard is a key feature, as it uses modern web technologies like RESTful APIs and JSON to address the long-standing challenge of data silos in healthcare. This makes it significantly easier for developers to build applications that can exchange data between different healthcare IT systems. - Early adopters of the SDK are using it to build custom tools for specific clinical and administrative needs. Use cases include creating patient assessment tools, identifying and triggering workflows for gaps in care, and automatically converting output from AI scribes into structured clinical notes. - The global EMR/EHR market was valued at nearly $30 billion in 2025, with North America holding a 45% share. Canvas's strategy of providing a highly programmable platform competes with incumbent giants like Epic Systems
