Why Your Growth Depends on an EHR Integration Strategy and 8 Steps to Get You There

No matter where you sit in the healthcare ecosystem, data integrations are complex and critical to success. Your product or service may speed up revenue cycles, help doctors and patients connect virtually or hold the cure for the plague of the 21st century, but if it can't easily share and consume data with other systems, you won't get very far.

To grow, creators of digital health solutions need a thoughtful data integration, or interoperability, strategy that empowers you to overcome these complications. Data exchange with trading partners such as hospitals, payers, public health agencies, and other systems is a required capability for any successful digital health product. While reliable integration can speed up your time to market, it's likely not a skillset that's part of the core competency of your development team. As you grow, you'll want to consider the complexity of information sharing and if you are best positioned to buy, build, or partner to keep pace. To inform this decision, think about your business requirements and the complexity of each integration project.