FastForward for Practice Fusion
Six steps, done once. FastForward runs inside Chrome as a side panel next to your Practice Fusion chart.
Download FastForward.zip — a single file, saved to your Downloads folder.
Chrome may ask you to confirm the download. Choose Keep.
Create a folder you will not move or delete, then unzip FastForward into it. Documents is a good home.
FastForward.zip → Extract All… → change the destination to Documents\FastForward → Extract.
FastForward.zip, then drag the folder it creates into Documents.
This folder is the program. Chrome loads FastForward from this exact location every time it starts.
If you leave it in Downloads and later clear that folder, FastForward will disappear from Chrome. Put it somewhere you keep things.
Open a new tab, type chrome://extensions in the address bar, and press Enter.
In the top-right corner of that page, switch Developer mode on.
This is what lets Chrome install an extension that came from us directly rather than from the Chrome Web Store. Nothing else about Chrome changes.
Three buttons appear once Developer mode is on. Click Load unpacked.
Select the FastForward folder you created in step 2, then click Select Folder (Windows) or Open (Mac).
FastForward for Practice Fusion now appears as a card on the extensions page.
If Chrome says “Manifest file is missing or unreadable”, you picked the wrong level. Unzipping sometimes creates a folder inside a folder.
Open the folder you chose. If you see another folder with the same name, go into it and select that one instead. The correct folder has manifest.json sitting directly inside it.
Click the puzzle-piece icon to the right of Chrome's address bar. Find FastForward for Practice Fusion in the list and click the pin beside it.
The FastForward arrows icon now stays visible in your toolbar. That icon is how you open the panel.
Open Practice Fusion and go to a patient's chart with an unsigned SOAP note.
Click the FastForward icon in your toolbar. The panel opens along the right-hand side.
Sign in with your email address and the password you chose when you subscribed. Your encounter types load automatically.
That's the whole installation. From now on, click the icon whenever you want the panel.
Next: Using FastForward walks through every part of the panel.
Chrome lists what any extension is allowed to reach, and you can check it yourself at any time: open chrome://extensions, click Details on the FastForward card, and look under Site access.
Those two are the whole list. FastForward cannot see any other site you visit, and it does nothing at all on Practice Fusion until you click the icon — nothing runs in the background watching your charts.
Your patient notes stay in your browser. Your encounter types are saved to our server so they follow you between computers. The contents of the notes themselves are not — copying an encounter happens entirely on your own screen.
Each time you start Chrome, you may see a small box that says “Disable developer mode extensions.”
This is normal, and it appears for every extension installed outside the Chrome Web Store. Close it with the ×, or click Cancel.
Do not click Disable. That switches FastForward off, and you would need to turn it back on from chrome://extensions.
FastForward does not update itself. When a new version is released, we will email you.
FastForward.zip.chrome://extensions and click the circular reload arrow on the FastForward card.Reusing the same folder keeps you signed in. Your encounter types are stored on our server, so they are safe either way.
Still stuck? Reply to your welcome email and tell us which step you reached — that is usually enough for us to spot it straight away.