Exchanging data with Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms isn’t just for healthcare organizations. It’s often necessary for the hundreds of health tech vendors that support their client’s clinical and administrative staff. From automating administrative processes to providing actionable clinical insights, digital health solutions can provide superior value to their users when they have achieved seamless data exchange.
At Healthcare Integrations, we offer specialized EHR integration development services tailored for digital health companies. We build data pipelines for all kinds of use cases, whether pulling patient records or pushing insightful reports, in a fast, scalable manner. We are EHR agnostic and can build integrations with popular EHRs like Epic, Cerner, Athena, and more.
Why Choose Healthcare Integrations?
Healthcare Integrations has built hundreds of EHR integrations over the years. By partnering with us, you get access to an experienced integration team that will help you quickly build quality EHR integrations, all on your own infrastructure. We understand the common pitfalls and obstacles in building EHR integrations, and we’ll help you avoid wasting time and resources on costly integration mistakes.
How Can We Help?
Our expert EHR integration developers are here to help you establish data exchange with ANY EHR platform. Schedule a free consultation to see if we are a good fit to help your organization.
Key EHR Integration Services
Our commonly requested healthcare interoperability consulting services include:
Contract EHR Integration Development Services
Need help with a tricky EHR Integration? Contract with us to build your integration. We’ll provide you with the experience and resources to build any EHR integration.
Managed EHR Integration Development Services
Need long-term EHR Integration Services? We’ll provide all of the resources needed to manage hundreds of integrations and become an extension of your current team. We’ll take the burden of EHR integrations off of your team’s shoulders, freeing them up to spend time on other important activities.
EHR Integration Hosting
We’ll host your integrations for you for a low monthly fee. Our hosting service comes with daily backups, 24/7 security, HIPAA compliance, and complimentary EHR integration monitoring.
EHR Integration Monitoring
When timely, accurate data exchange is a necessity, we provide 24/7, HIPAA-compliant integration monitoring tools to trigger a rapid responses to errors or unexpected downtime. When something goes wrong, our team is there in minutes, not days.
EHR Integration Strategy
Not sure how your organization should approach EHR integrations? We can help you build an EHR integration strategy tailored to your use cases, clients, goals, and budget.
EHR Integration Development Consulting
Have all of the resources you need, but want some expert EHR integration guidance? Our consultants can answer any questions you may have about EHR integrations.
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Our EHR Integration Development Process
Our 4-step EHR Development process has helped hundreds of clients.
Step 1
Scoping
— Determine the Integration Use Case
— Gather the Specifications for each Entity
— Select the Appropriate Integration Pathway
Step 2
Development
— Establish Connectivity between each Entity
— Build the Data Transformations
— Build the Data Routing Logic
— Perform Internal QA and take Corrective Actions
Step 3
Validation
— Perform External QA and take Corrective Actions
— Get Confirmation from all Entities
— Move Integration to Production and Go-Live
Step 4
Monitoring
— Identify Unexpected Use Cases
— Identify Non-Standard Data Messages
— Take Corrective Actions
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EHR Integration Service FAQs
Find answers to commonly asked questions about EHR Integrations
What types of EHR systems can you integrate with?
We can integrate with any EHR system, including major EHR platforms like Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, and athenahealth, as well as smaller or custom EHR platforms. Our expertise balances the high level process of EHR integrations and the nuances between EHR platforms to ensure we can support any integration use case.
What is the typical timeline for an EHR integration project?
The timeline to build an EHR integration depends on the complexity of your use case, which EHR system is involved, and your client’s implementation of their EHR. However, most simple to moderate complexity integrations are completed within 4-6 weeks. We provide detailed timelines after reviewing your EHR integration needs.
How do you ensure compliance with healthcare regulations like HIPAA?
We adhere to strict security protocols to protect patient data and ensure compliance with HIPAA and other relevant healthcare regulations. Our EHR Integrations prioritize data security, encryption, and privacy at every stage of the integration process.
What data can be shared between our platform and the EHR system?
We commonly build integrations that enable the exchange patient demographics, clinical notes, lab results, medication lists, appointment details, and more. The data that can be exchanged between systems is dependent on the capabilities of both your platform and the EHR platform you want to integrate with.
What standards do you use for EHR integration?
We can support EHR Integrations using any data format, but most commonly use HL7v2, FHIR STU3, FHIR R4, and CDA for most integration use cases. We build EHR integrations based on the intended use case, selecting the best data format standard for the job.
What data formats and connectivity methods do you use to build EHR Integrations?
Our team has used the following data formats to build EHR integrations:
- HL7 v2
- HL7 v3 (CDA)
- FHIR (HL7 v4)
- CSV
- JSON
- XML
- ASTM
- DICOM
- Embedded PDFs
- TXT
Our team has used the following connectivity methods to build EHR Integrations:
- SFTP
- FTPS
- VPN
- Fax
- AWS S3
- REST API
- SOAP API
- SMTP
How do you handle data mapping and transformation for EHR integrations?
We build the data mapping and transformation processes inside of the integration engine, also known as the interoperability layer. The Interoperabilty layer sits between your platform, and all of the other systems that you need to integrate with. This interop layer handles all of the data mapping, data transformation, and data routing logic, kept separate from your core platform to ensure maximum compatibility.
Do you provide ongoing support after the EHR integration is completed?
Yes, we offer post-integration support, monitoring, and maintenance services to ensure that your EHR integration remains functional, secure, and up-to-date with any changes stemming from your platform or your client’s EHR.
How scalable are your EHR integration solutions?
Our integration solutions are designed to be scalable, so they can grow with your business. Whether you are adding new features, integrating with additional EHR systems, or expanding into new markets, we ensure that your integration framework can handle increased demand.
What challenges might arise when building EHR integration, and how do you address them?
Common challenges include differences between integration specifications and production environments, lack of communication or support from EHR vendors, varying EHR implementations between clients using the same EHR platform. Our team has extensive experience in overcoming these challenges by leveraging our EHR Integration validation process, minimizing the reliance on EHR vendors, and desging EHR integrations to be configurable to achieve data exchange with custom EHR implementations that vary by organization.
How do you ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data being exchanged?
We perform rigorous testing during the development and validation process to ensure that the data is accurate and transferred without errors. We also offer also real-time EHR integration monitoring to maintain data integrity for the lifetime of the integration.
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