Electronic medical records (EMR) company Canvas Medical on Thursday announced Canvas Studio, a no-code interface that allows clinicians and other medical professionals to build custom EMR workflows.
Canvas Medical CEO Adam Farren told Fierce Healthcare that the company is “serving a market” for software developers to customize workflows for end users within ONC-certified EHR platforms.
“What Studio does is replace the developer with an AI agent, which allows the end user, whether it’s a clinician or administrative staff user, to use the agent to customize and extend Canvas directly on their own,” Farren said.
According to the company, Canvas Studio’s key features include contextual access, AI-assisted coding tools, a natural language interface, workflow automation with agents, and open-source reference plugins. Canvas Studio is powered by Claude Code and the Canvas Software Development Kit (SDK).
Farren said the tool takes Canvas’ functionality to the “next level” by allowing end users to create these pathways directly, adding that the platform serves “thousands of users” and “hundreds of thousands of patients” across 15 ambulatory specialties each month.
Farren said some of these specialties include healthcare providers who prescribe GLP-1 drugs, who will now be able to use Canvas Studio to automate the intake process for new and existing patients.
“By recognizing the context, whether it’s a new patient or an existing patient, the agent automatically decides whether to provide a new patient survey or an existing patient survey,” says Farren.
Launched in 2015, Canvas developed a new EMR architecture for primary and specialty care providers and subsequently built developer tools and a bi-directional FHIR application programming interface. Last year, the company unveiled Hyperscribe, an open source AI-enabled clinical copilot for clinicians developed using the Canvas software development kit.
Farren said Canvas Studio is currently available to “about 30” beta users who will be participating in a live workshop on Thursday. “We will continue to support beta users for probably a week or two, and then release Studio to all customers,” he said.
