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Custom EHR and EMR integration services. HL7, FHIR, and SMART on FHIR builds connecting your product to Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and more.
Your software works. Getting it to exchange data with a hospital EHR system is what stalls the rollout for months.
EHR integration is its own discipline. It takes HL7 interfaces, FHIR APIs, vendor review queues, and patience with other people’s data models.
We build those connections. Healthcare is all we do, so we already know the standards, the vendors, and the failure modes.
Hospitals now expose patient data by API
Typical interface project, discovery to go-live
CMS deadline for payer FHIR APIs
EHR integration services connect your application to the electronic health record systems your customers already run.
The work covers three things. Moving patient data between systems, mapping it so both sides agree what each field means, and doing it securely enough to satisfy HIPAA.
Done well, clinical data flows into your product and results flow back without anyone re-typing them. Done badly, you get duplicate patient records and a support queue.
Most integration projects take one of a few shapes: reading health records, writing results or notes back, subscribing to events, or full bidirectional data exchange across systems.
Most agencies will not publish this. We will, because guessing wastes everyone’s time.
Three things drive the number. How many EHRs you need, whether you only read or also write back, and how clean the source data turns out to be.
Vendor certification can add weeks on top. Epic and Oracle Health both review applications before granting production access, and that queue is outside anyone’s control.
Change requests are priced separately and agreed in writing before work starts. Fixed-bid integration turns adversarial the moment scope moves, so we would rather price the change than argue about it.
One feed in or out against one EHR system. Lab results, ADT, or scheduling.
Bidirectional data exchange with one EHR, including mapping, testing, and vendor certification.
Your product connected across several EHRs, usually behind one reusable integration layer.
Monitoring, version upgrades, and interface changes as vendors move underneath you.
We work with the electronic health record platforms your customers actually run, in hospitals and in ambulatory practices.
If a system has an API or an HL7 feed, we can usually connect it. The list below covers most of what we see.
Vendor Services review, FHIR R4 APIs, and HL7 v2 interfaces where FHIR does not yet reach.
Millennium and the Ignite APIs, plus the legacy HL7 feeds still running at most sites.
athenaOne APIs and the marketplace review process for ambulatory products.
Common across the independent practices we already support.
API and interface work for mid-size groups on Allscripts-era systems.
DrChrono, Kareo, and specialty platforms. If it exposes an API or an HL7 feed, we can work with it.
Real integration projects rarely use one standard. FHIR does not yet reach everywhere HL7 v2 goes, so most builds use both.
The 21st Century Cures Act pushed every certified EHR toward open FHIR APIs. Healthcare interoperability is far more achievable now than it was five years ago.
The workhorse. Most hospital feeds still move admissions, orders, and lab results over HL7 v2 messages.
The modern REST standard. Cleaner to build against, and now required of certified EHRs.
Launches your app inside the EHR with the right patient context and a signed-in clinician.
Proprietary APIs for the gaps the standards do not cover yet.
Imaging studies, when your product touches radiology.
Summary documents still used for referrals and transitions of care.
Most AI in healthcare software fails on data, not on the model. An assistant that drafts notes needs accurate patient information to draft from.
We build the data flow that makes those features work. Normalized clinical data, reliable event triggers, and write-back that lands in the right chart.
That is an integration problem before it is an AI problem, and it is the part teams underestimate.
Every integration project follows the same arc. The timeline varies with scope and with how fast the EHR vendor moves.
A single interface can go live in about six weeks. A multi-EHR program runs six months or more, mostly because of vendor review queues rather than build time.
Every integration we build handles protected health information, so it is designed to HIPAA standards from the first sprint.
That means encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege service accounts, full audit logging, and a signed business associate agreement.
We also keep patient information out of logs and error reports. That one habit prevents a surprising share of breaches.
Where your product stores health information, we help you document the safeguards your customers’ security reviews will ask about.
Data quality is the usual culprit. Two information systems can both be right and still disagree about a patient identity.
Vendor timelines are second. Certification queues are outside your control, so plan around them instead of promising dates you cannot hold.
Scope is third. Teams start with a read-only feed, then discover mid-project that they need to write back too.
We front-load those questions in discovery. Finding them during build costs roughly ten times more.
Ask what they have actually shipped, and to which EHR systems. Integration experience does not transfer from other industries.
Ask who owns the interface after go-live. Vendors change APIs, and an unowned integration quietly rots until something breaks in production.
Ask how they price change requests. That is where fixed-bid integration work usually turns adversarial.
Finally, ask whether they understand the clinical workflow on the other end. Data that arrives in the wrong place at the wrong time still fails the user.
The EHR data most projects need falls into a handful of categories.
Demographics and patient records identify who you are looking at. Lab results, medications, problems, and allergies carry the clinical picture.
Scheduling and ADT feeds tell you when a patient arrives or moves between units. Billing and claims data close the financial loop.
Data integration is mostly mapping work. The same lab test can carry three different codes in three systems, and someone has to reconcile them.
Data sharing usually runs both directions. You read what you need, then write back results, notes, or documents so the chart stays complete.
Integration is never the goal. What a healthcare organization wants is fewer manual steps and fewer mistakes.
For healthcare providers on the clinical side, a good build removes double entry. Results land in the chart instead of a fax tray.
Good integrations also simplify the estate. One connected healthcare system beats four that each need their own login and their own export.
For your product, integration is often the deal itself. Buyers ask which EHRs you support before they ask what your software does.
That is why healthcare technology vendors treat it as a sales asset rather than a back-office cost. Healthcare solutions that connect cleanly get adopted, and the rest sit unused.
Connections that let your software exchange patient data with an electronic health record system. They run over HL7 messages, FHIR APIs, or a vendor API, and they can read, write, or both.
A single interface runs $15,000 to $35,000. A bidirectional integration with one EHR is usually $35,000 to $90,000. Multi-EHR programs start near $90,000, and ongoing support starts at $2,500 a month.
Epic and Oracle Health dominate hospitals. athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, and Veradigm lead in ambulatory practices. We integrate with all of them.
About six weeks for a single interface. Three to six months for a full bidirectional build, and longer for multi-EHR programs. Vendor certification is usually the longest pole.
Both, plus SMART on FHIR and vendor-specific healthcare APIs. Most real projects use more than one, because FHIR does not yet cover everything HL7 v2 does.
Yes. We design to HIPAA from the start: encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging, least-privilege access, and a signed business associate agreement.
That is the common ask. We build a single integration layer in your product, then connect each EHR behind it, so adding the next one does not mean starting over.
Practice management, billing, labs, imaging, patient portals, telehealth, remote monitoring, e-prescribing, and analytics platforms. If it consumes patient data or produces it, it can usually be connected.
Less double entry, fewer transcription errors, faster results delivery, and cleaner billing. For a software vendor it is also what makes the product sellable to a health system.
Bring us the systems you need to connect and what has to move between them. We'll come back with an interface plan, a timeline, and a fixed range — before anyone signs anything.
Book a scoping call or send us the details. If you also need the practice-side work, our managed IT and HIPAA compliance services cover it.
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