After you've created your digital health application, you'll need to power it by integrating with EHRs. With the potential to impact everything from your team to your bottom line, deciding whether you do it alone or with a partner is a choice that will affect your entire company. In this slide, we'll break down the issues you need to consider when you decide whether to build or to buy your EHR integration. Hosted by Nick John, a Redox Solutions Engineer.

1. To Build
or to Buy
Understanding the Requirements of
EHR Integration

2. When thinking about how to integrate with an EHR, all
digital health applications are faced with one fundamental
question:
“Do I build out my product and team to
handle integration myself, or do I find an
outside party to perform this service for
me?”

3. While a seemingly straightforward
question, there are many issues that can
tip the scale either way.

4. Application

5. Application

6. Business leaders will likely evaluate this
decision from a few specific angles.
Look at these 5 considerations and spend
money on what matters to you.

7. 1. Up-Front Costs
2. Speed
3. Expertise
4. Credibility
5. Scalability

8. • To integrate, you will need a team of experts either
developed in house or hired. Consider how much this
new team will cost.
• Allocate your team’s time, money, and resources to
what matters most—your product.
1. Up-Front Cost — Developing Your
Product and Team for Integration is
Resource Intensive

9. • Getting to market quickly is a goal for many app
developers.
• Implementing and changing your product would
take time.
• As you expand your product to new sites, time
needed to integrate would be compounded.
2. Speed — Developing your
Integration Toolset Takes Time

10. • To successfully integrate, you need experts who
understand the complexities of the industry.
• If your team does not currently have a command of
these knowledge areas, you will need analysts and
programmers who do.
3. Expertise — Integration
Requires Precise Knowledge

11. • Sharing health data is taken seriously by health
systems.
• Most health systems require some type of
security audit.
• You will need to determine how to best establish
trust with a health system.
4. Trust — Integration Experts
Lend Credibility

12. 5. Scalability — Handling Variation
Across Vendors and Health
Systems
• Scaling your product means exponential time
spent integrating.
• More integrations equal a growing integration
team.
• Integrations are fragile.

14. Up-Front Cost
With Redox, you have an integration partner who already has
every tool needed to integrate. With no need to hire new
developers or devote time to getting them up to speed, you can
spend money on what matters: your product.

15. Speed
Connecting and integrating with our API is quick and efficient,
not just initially, but every single time you integrate at a new
health system.

16. Expertise
Our team is comprised of healthcare experts owning 60+ years
of industry experience. Not only do we know this industry inside
and out, we’re committed to pushing it forward and improving
patient care.

17. Trust
Our work and the ecosystem we’re building are well known. We
work with all major EHR vendors including Cerner, Epic, GE
Centiricty, Allscripts, MEDITECH, McKesson, and more.

18. Scalability
As you grow, we do the work of managing your integrations.
Connect to us once and deploy at health systems across the
country without having to grow your IT team.

19. Lastly...
When you partner with Redox, you are
eligible to publicly list your application
on the Redox Gallery.

20. • Drives valuable
leads to our
partners
• Grows the
interoperable
healthcare
network
• Averages
10,000 unique
visits per month

21. Questions?
Reach out and drop us a line.
We’re here (and happy) to help.
hello@redoxengine.com