Patient-authorized EHR integration
Health systems
These are the health system families Connect includes, and what can differ from one organization to the next.
A health system is the hospital, clinic, or insurer that holds a patient's records.
Families in Connect
| Family | Details |
|---|---|
| Epic | Epic |
| Oracle Health (Cerner) | Oracle Health |
| athenahealth | athenahealth |
| eClinicalWorks / healow | eClinicalWorks / healow |
| MEDITECH Expanse | MEDITECH |
| Veradigm / Allscripts | Veradigm |
| Medicare Blue Button 2.0 | Blue Button |
The integrations directory also lists other patient-access families, such as NextGen, Greenway, PointClickCare, and Elation Health. Their detail pages are still being written.
Whether a patient can connect a given organization also depends on FinchNode's registration with it. If one isn't available, Connect tells the patient.
What differs by organization
A supported family doesn't mean every organization in it behaves the same.
- What they publish. Each organization chooses which FHIR resources and history it exposes.
- What the patient approves there. FinchNode asks the health system only for what your categories need, where it supports that. Some permissions cover more than one category; labs and vitals both come from Observation. Either way, your app reads only the categories the patient shares with it.
- Ongoing access. Some organizations allow continuous sync; others allow one import.
Handle a partial import and categories that come back empty. See Freshness, partial and stale records.
Medicare Blue Button
Blue Button returns what CMS holds for a Medicare beneficiary: claims and coverage, plus basic demographics. It isn't a clinical record from an EHR.