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Articles and insights from the Leyr team

May 21, 2026

MCP servers: the missing link between AI agents and real integrations

AI assistants have become great at writing, summarising, and reasoning. The next step is giving them a reliable way to do things in real systems - safely, with clear permissions, and with predictable inputs and outputs.

Apr 28, 2026

Less tool switching, safer handoffs: interoperability in practice

EHR interoperability is easiest to see in everyday clinical work. Care teams need to coordinate, message, escalate, transfer, and follow up quickly. When systems do not connect, clinicians lose time searching for information and tracking down the right person, exactly when speed matters most.

Apr 23, 2026

Patient acquisition in healthcare (reframed)

In healthcare, “acquisition” isn’t about selling, it’s about helping people access the right care smoothly and safely. Growth follows when the patient journey is easy: find care, book, prepare, attend, follow up, and return when needed.

Apr 16, 2026

How Helseresepten uses Leyr to improve patient experience and scale a fully digital treatment program

Helseresepten runs a fully digital, multidisciplinary treatment program for medically supported weight loss — where patients are followed by a doctor, clinical nutritionist, and physiotherapist through regular online consultations.

Oct 15, 2025

Shorten queues by increasing resource utilization

Healthcare systems face a persistent challenge: long queues despite available resources. The key to addressing this lies in optimising how we utilise existing capacity through fully integrated digital workflows, possible thanks to system integrations.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Sep 8, 2025

openEHR Explained: The LEGO™ Approach to Clinical Record Keeping

Imagine arriving at a new clinic expecting your complete medical history to appear seamlessly in their system. Instead, you receive a pile of PDFs in inconsistent formats, with missing fields and mismatched codes. That’s the real-world cost of siloed, vendor-specific EHRs. openEHR was designed to change all that.

Katja WildeHealth Informatician

Aug 7, 2025

FHIR in Focus: The Modern Standard for Health Data Exchange

If you’ve spent more than a few minutes around digital health teams, you’ve probably heard the term FHIR tossed around, often with both excitement and frustration. But what exactly is FHIR? Why was it created? And is it really the answer to healthcare interoperability?

Katja WildeHealth Informatician

Jul 23, 2025

Why healthcare standards matter & why interoperability is still so hard

In healthcare IT, everyone talks about standards. But why do we have so many? Why don’t they just work together? And what’s standing in the way of real interoperability? Let’s break it down.

Katja WildeHealth Informatician

Jul 16, 2025

"Simplifying Integration: Sebastian Olenski on Leyr's New API Adapter Solution"

In today's tech landscape, seamless integration is key to successful software implementation. At Leyr, Senior Developer Sebastian Olenski has been leading an innovative project to transform how clients can connect with our API. In this mini-interview, Sebastian shares insights into the development of Leyr's new API adapter - a solution designed to dramatically simplify client integration by shifting the technical burden from customers to Leyr's own team. Sebastian explains how this approach not only streamlines onboarding for new clients but also provides valuable insights that help refine Leyr's API offerings.

Jul 7, 2025

The Rise of AI Agents in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care and Clinical Workflows

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are rapidly transforming the healthcare landscape, offering innovative solutions to longstanding challenges in clinical workflows, patient care, and administrative efficiency. These systems are designed to automate tasks, assist healthcare professionals, and improve patient outcomes through advanced data analysis and natural language processing capabilities. As healthcare systems worldwide face increasing pressure from aging populations, staff shortages, and rising costs, AI agents present a promising avenue to enhance care delivery while reducing the administrative burden on medical professionals.

May 19, 2025

Report: Cost of unrealized integrations (Swedish)

Swedish healthcare is missing out on capacity worth millions of SEK - download our report to read more.

May 14, 2025

Customer Spotlight: Interview with Recnote

Our customer Recnote is on a mission to streamline medical documentation by providing efficient solutions for both healthcare professionals and administrative staff. Their goal is simple: deliver faster, more accurate documentation while reducing the time physicians spend on paperwork. We sat down with their CEO and Co-founder Shahin Pourjanaki to learn more about their product.

Apr 4, 2025

Building a Strong Security Foundation in Tech Startups

As cyber attacks become more common, tech startups need strong security from the start. We held a webinar where experts shared tips on how to stay secure while keeping development fast and efficient. This webinar was part of a project backed by MSB and NCC-SE, where we invited experts to discuss how tech startups can build better security. You can watch the full recording, but here's a summary of what our speakers shared.

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Mar 28, 2025

Information Security Best Practices for Startups

A Practical Guide to Building Secure Healthcare Solutions for startups and SMEs

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Mar 24, 2025

Security training beyond checkboxes

Leyr, a healthtech company aiming to improve healthcare data accessibility through interoperability, places information security at the heart of its mission. Our core focus is enhancing patient safety and clinician satisfaction by ensuring health data is securely available where it's needed most. As an organization committed to the highest security standards, including ISO27001 compliance, we understand that regular team training isn't just a requirement- it's fundamental to our success.

Mar 10, 2025

Tackling Information Security Challenges in Healthcare Technology

In today's healthcare landscape, technology plays a crucial role in patient care. However, fragmentation and integration issues - combined with growing cybersecurity threats - pose significant challenges for healthcare providers and technology developers alike. As healthcare data becomes increasingly digital, protecting sensitive patient information is not just crucial but can serve as a business advantage.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

A picture of speedometer on fire, with a text saying "EHR in 2 weeks" on it.

Dec 5, 2024

From 2 months to 2 weeks: How we cracked the EHR integration code 🚀

Building reliable connections to EHR systems like Epic, Cerner, DIPS, TakeCare and many others is a complex challenge that many healthtech startups face. When we started Leyr, integrating with a single EHR system would take us up to 2 months. Today, we can do it in 2 weeks. Here's our journey and the technical architecture that made it possible.

Anton LytvynovskyiCTO and Co-Founder

Aug 7, 2024

Customer Spotlight Story: Leapscribe

It’s time to highlight one of our customers Leapscribe. They are transforming medical documentation from a manual task into a background process, effectively shifting focus to patient care instead of admin. Needless to say, this has the potential to change what a workday looks and feels like for a healthcare professional! We sat down with Edvin Tidevall, their CEO and co-founder, and had a chat about what inspired him to found Leapscribe and his vision for the future.

Apr 23, 2024

A short recap of EHRs - what we have connected so far

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare technology, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) play a pivotal role in shaping the future of patient care. At Leyr, we strive to support healthcare providers by offering seamless integrations with some of the most advanced EHR systems available. Let's take a closer look at the state of EHRs at Leyr and see how these innovative solutions are shaping the future of healthcare delivery.

Anton LytvynovskyiCTO and Co-Founder

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Apr 9, 2024

Why Interoperability Matters

Interoperability is the ability of various systems, devices, or applications to connect and communicate seamlessly, without restrictions. This implies that different technology systems and software applications can exchange data and utilize it - which in healthcare is currently not a given. Interoperable data exchange makes the correct data accessible at the right time to the appropriate people, which enhances healthcare delivery.

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Oct 3, 2023

How Leyr Simplifies EHR Integrations

Integrating with different EHRs involves a lot of coordination, administration, time, and resources. It usually also means a big budget. That’s why Leyr is about a lot more than just the technical implementation and our one to many approach. In everything we do, we aim to lower the barriers to integrate with EHRs and that involves several key aspects.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Oct 12, 2023

Information Security: A 3-Step Kickstart Guide

For startups in the medical technology industry, information security should be a priority for your business. To get started, here are 3 things that you can do on your way towards systematic information security work.

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Sep 12, 2023

API Integrations vs RPA Solutions

Healthtech has been struggling with integrations for years. Some have found a solution to transfer data between systems with RPA (Robotic Process Automation). However, is RPA always the best choice? Or should you rather go with API? In this blog post, we'll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of RPA and API integrations in healthtech.

Anton LytvynovskyiCTO and Co-Founder

Aug 29, 2023

NIS 2 Directive: What You Need to Know as a Healthtech Startup

Information security and cyber threats are important to any organisation because they can have a significant impact on the organisation's reputation, finances, and operations. Cyber attacks can result in data breaches, which can lead to the loss of sensitive information, financial loss, and legal consequences. In addition, cyber threats can disrupt an organisation's operations, leading to downtime and lost productivity. If this wasn’t enough to make anyone keen on implementing effective information security measures, there is also legislation around the corner that will place higher requirements on businesses within the European Union. If you haven’t heard about the NIS 2 directive, it’s about time that you do.

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Oct 2, 2024

Buy vs Build: Why Healthtech Companies Should Consider Leyr’s Integration Platform

For healthtech companies, the challenge of building integrations with electronic health records (EHRs) is a common one. EHR integrations require a lot of time, effort, and resources from your technical and product teams, taking precious time away from developing your core product offering. What if, instead of building all these integrations separately yourselves, you could build a single integration and get full market coverage? That’s what we offer at Leyr. Leyr's integration platform offers several benefits over building multiple integrations from scratch. We make this possible through a one-and-done approach: you integrate with us once, and can use the same integration for as many EHRs you want. Here are some reasons why you should consider Leyr's integration platform

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Apr 11, 2023

Scheduling in EHR systems - explained

An EHR calendar usually differs in some aspects from your regular online calendar. If you want to build an integration for booking appointments, you will need to take the scheduling logic that applies to most EHRs into account. So how does that work?

Vikk LindenHead of Product Success

Apr 4, 2023

The European Health Data Space - EHDS

Last year the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on the European Health Data Space, EHDS. This blog post will give you a high level understanding of what EHDS is, its purpose and the impact it can have on the European healthcare sector.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Mar 8, 2023

Interoperability in Healthcare

The market of digital health has accelerated in the past years. It is estimated to reach $400BN this year (1). Today there are more than 400 000 health tech applications and more than 500 EHRs (electronic health records). However, these systems are not integrated which means that they don’t transfer patient data between them. We talk a lot about the potential of patient data, but the truth is that the data is fragmented and trapped in different systems. It is also very difficult to analyze medical data due to its inconsistency.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

Feb 8, 2023

How we replaced 3rd party feedback forms with Notion

Notion is one of the most popular productivity tools there, which offers a great API and integration capabilities to make our lives easier. This article will tell you how one could use Notion API to replace almost any 3rd party forms on your website. The frontend framework we are using here is Nuxt 3, but concepts from this tutorial are applicable to any other javascript framework.

Anton LytvynovskyiCTO and Co-Founder

Jan 12, 2023

How to deal with MDR, Medical Device Regulation, as a Healthtech Startup

Founders in early stage healthtech startups often struggle with how to tackle the regulatory aspect of being a healthtech startup. This blog post covers the best practises on how to approach the regulations and what you need to consider.

Helena HolmaCEO and Co-Founder

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