Innovar Healthcare

Innovar Healthcare is a Montgomery, Alabama-based healthcare interoperability company that specializes in connecting disparate healthcare systems through cloud-based integration solutions. The company focuses on data exchange between hospitals, IDNs, ambulatory clinics, HIEs, payers, and healthcare software vendors. Led by founder and CEO Loyd Bittle, who previously served as Vice President of the Mirth Group at NextGen Healthcare, the company brings experience from large-scale Health Information Exchange deployments.

The company's core offerings include managed integration services, data migration projects, and Mirth Connect health checks. They work with multiple data formats including HL7, FHIR API, custom CSV files, direct database connections, PDF imports, EDI, and claims files (835/837). Their solutions are hosted on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, providing scalability and high availability. Innovar has developed BridgeLink, an open-source successor to legacy Mirth Connect, and offers Lightswitch Managed Service as a fully hosted integration environment.

Innovar has worked with major EHR vendors including Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, NextGen Healthcare, eClinicalWorks, Athena, PracticeFusion, and VistA. The company positions itself around a simplified pricing model with one monthly fee covering platform, services, and team support.

Consider Innovar Healthcare if you need to migrate away from legacy Mirth Connect implementations, require expertise in complex multi-system integrations, or want to outsource your integration engine management entirely. Their background in Health Information Exchange gives them perspective on high-volume, multi-stakeholder data exchange scenarios.

Organizations should expect a consultative approach with hands-on technical expertise. The managed service model works well for organizations that lack in-house integration engineering resources or prefer operational simplicity over direct infrastructure control.

Innovar Healthcare operates exclusively in healthcare interoperability, focusing on clinical data exchange between providers, payers, and health information exchanges. The company has specific experience in behavioral health settings, as evidenced by their work with WellBridge Addiction Treatment and Research. Their technical expertise spans EHR integration, claims processing, and HIE connectivity, with demonstrated experience across inpatient, ambulatory, and specialty care environments. The leadership's background includes managing some of the largest Health Information Exchange implementations in the United States.

The ideal client is a healthcare provider organization or software vendor dealing with multiple system integrations who prefers managed services over building internal integration capabilities. Organizations transitioning from on-premises Mirth Connect to cloud infrastructure, behavioral health facilities requiring HIE connectivity, or ambulatory clinics needing EHR integration would align well with Innovar's capabilities and service model.