Your organization has made the decision to replace its electronic health record (EHR). Perhaps it’s outdated. Maybe you’re going through merger and acquisition activity, or you’ve identified shortcomings in the existing EHR and discovered that Epic offers improved workflows to boost efficiency, patient safety, and the clinician experience.
Whatever the reason, modernizing to the latest and greatest is almost always a good decision—but not one made lightly.
If you’re a CIO or vice president of IT leading an Epic migration, you know the process takes months or even years and requires collaboration across IT, clinical, and administrative teams. You’re balancing financial risk, migration timelines, potential interruptions to patient care, and clinician satisfaction.
Upgrading your integration solution alongside your Epic implementation is one of the smartest decisions you can make. If you’re investing in Epic, there are four reasons to modernize your integration platform as part of the same transformation.
Maintaining EHR migration timelines and optimizing IT efficiency
Everyone in healthcare understands that time is in short supply. When migrating to Epic, efficiency is key to success—which makes ease of integration an essential ingredient for a smooth transition.
Epic go-lives are often delayed not because of the EHR itself, but because integration complexity causes bottlenecks. A state-of-the-art integration platform like Rhapsody, Corepoint, or Envoy automates interface build processes, accelerates validation, and minimizes manual touchpoints, helping you stay on schedule and reduce cutover risk.
“UofL Health migrated 135 interfaces to Epic on time—confident integration wouldn’t be the holdup.”
The average health system underestimates the number of interfaces it needs. With Rhapsody, customers like WVU Health have built interfaces 50% faster during their Epic migration, while maintaining data integrity and protecting patient safety.
Protecting your EHR investment
Epic sets the bar for digital health innovation—but your integration layer determines how far you can take it.
By 2026, 20% of healthcare providers will shift away from EHR-tethered patient portals toward digital front-door solutions, according to Gartner¹. To take advantage of this open ecosystem, you need an integration platform built to scale with Epic.
Think of it like upgrading to 5-gig internet but keeping an eight-year-old router—you’ll never reach full performance. Rhapsody’s modern integration suite helps you futureproof your investment, ensuring your data ecosystem can grow as Epic grows.
Epic has endorsed Rhapsody as a trusted integration partner, and we’ve supported more Epic go-lives than any other integration engine. Our suite—Rhapsody, Corepoint, and Envoy—gives you flexible deployment options including for cloud, client-hosted, or hybrid environments.
Enhancing the experience for patients, clinical and non-clinical staff
Epic migrations are complex and stressful for everyone—from IT to clinicians to registration staff. Manual integration work can pull IT teams from daily responsibilities and risk workflow disruptions.
By automating migration processes, Rhapsody minimizes IT burden and ensures that data moves securely and reliably across systems, even during cutover. That means your clinicians stay focused on care, not downtime, and your patients get the continuity they expect.
“OU Health used Rhapsody to maintain data continuity during Epic migration—protecting clinical quality and avoiding interruptions to patient care.”
Addressing the volume of data, holistically
Healthcare data is growing exponentially—an average of 50 petabytes per hospital per year, according to HealthTech Magazine. As organizations consolidate systems, integration becomes critical for creating a unified, trusted data layer.
Rhapsody’s modern platform helps eliminate silos and provides visibility across every data source—from devices to genomics to population health. With better interoperability, you can unlock insights for better outcomes and operational efficiency.
More than 1,900 healthcare systems in 30+ countries trust Rhapsody
We understand what’s at stake during an Epic migration: the financial risk, patient safety, and the anxiety of major change. That’s why more than 1,900 healthcare organizations trust Rhapsody to modernize integration with confidence.
Whether you want to lead integration in-house or rely on our professional services, we’ll meet you where you are—and ensure you’re set up to build interfaces faster, scale easier, and maintain systems with less effort.
Rhapsody has earned the Best in KLAS® Integration Engine award every year since 2009, most recently in 2024.
If you’re moving to Epic—or have just completed the migration—make sure your integration platform is as modern and future-ready as your EHR.
Contact us to learn more about how Rhapsody can power your Epic migration with confidence.
For more information, check out these resources:
- Gartner, “Predicts 2023: Changing How Healthcare Provider Services and Operations Are Delivered”, Barry Runyon, Sharon Hakkennes, Gregg Pessin, 05 December 2022
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