Electronic medical record (EMR) company Canvas Medical launched Canvas Studio Thursday, a no-code interface that allows clinicians and other healthcare professionals to build custom EMR workflows.
Canvas Medical CEO Adam Farren told Fierce Healthcare the company was “serving a market” for software developers to customize workflows for end users within its ONC-certified EHR platform.
“What Studio does is replace the developer with an AI agent, so that the end user, the clinician or administrative staff user, can directly customize and extend Canvas themselves using the agent,” Farren said.
According to the company, key capabilities of Canvas Studio include contextual access, AI-assisted coding tools, natural language interface, agentic workflow automation 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’ capabilities “to the next level” by directly allowing end users to create these pathways, adding that the platform serves 15 outpatient specialties “across thousands of users” and “hundreds of thousands of patients” monthly.
Among these specialties are providers prescribing GLP-1 drugs, who will now be able to automate intake processes for new and existing patients using Canvas Studio, according to Farren.
“With context and awareness of whether it's a new patient or an existing patient, then the agent will automatically decide whether to give them the new patient questionnaire or the existing patient questionnaire,” Farren said.
Canvas, launched in 2015, developed a new EMR architecture for primary care and specialty care providers, later building developer tools and bidirectional FHIR application programming interfaces. Last year, it rolled out Hyperscribe, an open-source AI-enabled clinical copilot for clinicians developed with the Canvas software development kit.
Farren said Canvas Studio is currently available to “about 30” beta users, who will participate in a live workshop Thursday. “We will continue to support the beta users for a period of time, probably a week or two, and then we will release Studio to all of our customers,” he said.