If you’re a platform practice that’s looking to scale quickly, it pays to have a measurable, reliable process in place to take care of some of the trickiest parts of a new acquisition. Integrating a new practice into your current EMA® or NextGen®® system is a lot more nuanced than piecing together data, and a talented Director of Integration can make sure all of the moving pieces are connected in a way that makes sense.

But what about when you’re trying to scale faster than your integration team has the capacity to support? How much more efficient could you be if you had a solid, knowledgeable, nimble integration team that could decrease integration times, eliminate the risk of costly mistakes, and assist your in-house experts?

Firms like ours here at FiveSix Healthcare provide value with not only our technical expertise in the EMA® and NextGen®® worlds, but with the repeatable system we employ. Integrations are what we do, and when you complete hundreds each year, you’re able to pinpoint a level of effectiveness that makes scalability not just easy, but standard. 

Here’s why outsourcing the hard work of integrations to a team like ours is an effective way to scale your acquisition speed and hone an even more sustainable growth model.

Targeted work means measured work

As acquisition integration experts, we’ve built a straightforward process to help our clients get from point A to point B that’s been refined over years of application. If you’re a Director of Integration that needs to hit a bottom line, it pays to have a team that can easily set and maintain reportable KPIs, because they’ve done it many times before. 

Clearly defined, objective KPIs that don’t need to be augmented based on other tasks in a pipeline or other projects to tackle means work stays on track. It also means you can count on deadlines to be hit and potential issues to be resolved in a timely manner. Even the best in-house processes can be derailed as situations change. With an objective, outsourced team devoted to your goals, the likelihood of a costly, time consuming hiccup significantly decreases.

The ability to measure the outcome of each step in the integration process can prove to be invaluable for the platform practice that wants to eliminate bottlenecks and streamline progress. Working back to front, we target our end goal to align with the dates and milestones you need. We’re able to facilitate a more methodical, measured process because we can maintain a singular focus on the integration at hand,  without the distractions or additions in-house teams must often contend with. With an outsourced team like ours, there’s absolutely no need to shoot from the hip at any point in an integration. This virtually eliminates the threat of wasted time or resources.

We move significantly faster, because we have a blueprint that’s meant to be changed.

Here at FiveSix Healthcare, our average integration time is between 30 and 60 days. That’s a third of the time it takes our competitors, and almost a quarter of the time it takes many in-house teams. Aside from the fact that we keep our team small and tactical, one of our biggest differentiators is that we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. While we maintain a model for the work we do, our first priority when working with a new client is to assess your needs and decide on a plan of attack that will be most effective in your case. 

We’ve deployed countless solutions that are outside of the scope of  your software vendor or in-house team, and our capacity to do so means we’ve always reduced the time to completion. There are very few high level teams that can get into the weeds and deploy workarounds, assess problems before they happen, and fix issues as they arise. We are the expert team that does just that, which makes us a straightforward, reliable tool in the arsenal of a Director of Integration that needs more done, faster.

There’s no such thing as “can’t be done.”

Integrating a new practice can come with its fair share of surprises. Traditional in-house teams often don’t have the bandwidth to work outside of their scope if problems arise. At FiveSix Healthcare, we’re a true end-to-end integrator. This means there’s no such thing as an out of scope problem. Whether data needs to be deduplicated, augmented, or transformed, our team quarterbacks the entire process, even engaging directly with vendors on your behalf.

Our unique position as a do it all solution means integration deadlines and timelines are always met, and the time and money you invest into an integration is spent as effectively as it can be- whether you tap us as a replacement or addition to an in-house team. 

If working with your in-house team, we leverage our expertise to put out fires and keep things moving forward, while your team focuses on the macro-level work. If operating on our own, we handle the entire integration spectrum, leaving you to nothing but time to strategize on the next project.

Need scale? An outsourced solution gives you integration velocity

All integration processes aren’t created equally– and there’s a reason we’ve been tapped for more EMA® and NextGen®® integrations than our competitors. Our nimble, highly trained team of NextGen®® and EMA® experts knows integrations, because that’s all we do. 

Wanting to scale your acquisition process is one thing, but putting an efficient, outsourced team in place to make that happen is the next step. Whether you’re interested in working with a team like ours to support in-house projects, or you need a team that can do it all, we can help.

Explore some of our use cases and decide if we may be the right tool for the job by booking a call today!