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Hire Healthcare Forward-Deployed Engineers

Embedded FDEs

Healthcare Integration

End-to-End Delivery

Healthcare FDEs Matched to Your Deployment Requirements

Healthcare Application Development FDEs

  • Build secure web and mobile healthcare applications.
  • Develop APIs, services, and product extensions.
  • Modernize and scale cloud-based healthcare platforms.

Medical Imaging FDEs

  • Integrate PACS, RIS, modalities, viewers, and EHRs.
  • Build DICOM routing, reporting, sharing, and migration workflows.
  • Deploy imaging AI within radiology workflows.

EHR and Interoperability FDEs

  • Build Epic and EHR integrations using HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and APIs.
  • Connect patient, encounter, scheduling, order, and results data.
  • Configure Mirth, Rhapsody, and Cloverleaf interfaces.

Clinical Documentation FDEs

  • Build AI-assisted documentation, transcription, and reporting workflows.
  • Integrate notes and reports with EHR systems.
  • Add review, approval, correction, and finalization workflows.

Healthcare AI FDEs

  • Build healthcare AI assistants, agents, and RAG applications.
  • Connect AI models with clinical and operational data.
  • Add guardrails, monitoring, evaluation, and human review.

Custom Integration?

Don’t see your specific technical requirement? Our pool of FDEs covers any healthcare vertical.
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Core Capabilities: What Our Healthcare FDEs Do

01

Discover

  • Map clinical and operational workflows
  • Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Translate unclear requirements into an implementation plan
02

Design

  • Define solution architecture
  • Plan integrations, data flows, security, and deployment
  • Balance customer-specific requirements with product scalability
03

Build

  • Write production code
  • Develop APIs, services, workflows, and product extensions
  • Build AI, data, cloud, and full-stack capabilities
04

Integrate

  • Connect Epic and other EHR systems
  • Build HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, DICOM, and API connections
  • Support payer, imaging, lab, device, and operational platforms
05

Deploy

  • Support testing, security review, and go-live
  • Troubleshoot production issues
  • Document the deployment and transfer knowledge

Specialized FDEs for Healthcare Delivery

EHR & Interoperability FDE

  • 4.7/5 Rating
  • 40+ Projects Done
  • Experience: 9+ Years
  • Full-Time

Overview

Integration engineer who has spent his career connecting products to hospital EHRs — building bidirectional Epic interfaces, mapping HL7v2 feeds, and standing up FHIR APIs that pass real-world validation, not just sandbox tests.

Healthcare Expertise

Epic integration (Bridges, Epic on FHIR), HL7v2 message design, SMART on FHIR, CDA/CCD exchange, Mirth/Rhapsody/Cloverleaf configuration, and ADT/ORM/ORU/SIU workflows
HL7v2
FHIR
Mirth Connect
.NET
Node.js
SQL
Azure

Healthcare AI FDE

  • 4.9/5 Rating
  • 12+ Projects Done
  • Experience: 07+ Years
  • Full-Time

Overview

AI engineer focused on getting models out of notebooks and into clinical and operational workflows — with the guardrails, evaluation, and human-review loops that healthcare deployments demand.

Healthcare Expertise

Clinical documentation AI, RAG over clinical and payer data, PHI-safe LLM agent architecture, model evaluation and monitoring, de-identification pipelines, and ambient scribe integration with EHRs
Python
LangChain
Claude/OpenAI APIs
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Vector DBs
AWS

Medical Imaging FDE

  • 4.8/5 Rating
  • 25+ Projects Done
  • Experience: 10+ Years
  • Full-Time

Overview

Imaging systems engineer who works across the radiology stack — connecting modalities, PACS, viewers, and EHRs, and deploying imaging AI where radiologists actually work instead of in a silo beside them.

Healthcare Expertise

DICOM routing and migration, PACS/RIS/VNA integration, modality worklist (MWL) setup, zero-footprint viewer embedding, imaging AI deployment, and ORU/ORM result flows to the EHR
DICOM
DICOMweb
Orthanc
Python
C#
S3/Blob Storage
SQL

FDE Engagement Models & Hiring System

Individual FDE Embedding

  • Full-time engineer embedded within your team
  • Works inside your codebase and collaboration tools
  • Participates directly in customer and stakeholder calls

Managed FDE Teams

  • Cross-functional team of FDEs and specialists
  • Managed directly by Folio3
  • Owns delivery across complex implementation and rollout needs

Deployment Sprints

  • Time-bound engagements lasting 4–12 weeks
  • Focused on a specific integration or product launch
  • Designed to remove blockers and accelerate deployment

The Advantage of Forward Deployed Engineering in Healthcare 

Capability

Folio3 Healthcare FDE

Systems Integrator

Staff Augmentation

Solutions Consultant

Hiring (internal/agency)

Owns delivery end to end

Yes

Split across teams

No

No

Eventually

Ships production code

Yes

Yes

Yes

Rarely

Yes

Healthcare & Epic depth

Yes

Varies by team

Varies by contractor

Yes

Hard to source

Works directly with your customers

Yes

Limited

Rarely

Sometimes

Yes

Stays through post go- live support

Yes

Contract dependent

Contract dependent

No

Yes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we hire one FDE or a complete pod?

Both. You can embed a single forward-deployed engineer who owns a specific integration or product area, or a full pod — engineers, a tech lead, and QA — operating as a dedicated delivery team. Most healthcare clients start with one or two FDEs to prove value on a first integration, then scale the pod as the roadmap grows.
Yes. Epic integration is one of our core strengths. Our engineers build Epic EHR integration across the interfaces Epic supports: HL7v2, Epic APIs and Vendor Services apps (formerly App Orchard), and modern Epic FHIR integration for read and write.
What Folio3 does is connect your product or platform to Epic — building the FHIR and HL7 interfaces, APIs, and data flows that let your software exchange data with Epic reliably and securely.
Yes. The CMS-0057-F final rule (the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule) requires impacted payers to stand up FHIR-based APIs — the Patient Access API, Provider Access API, Payer-to-Payer API, and Prior Authorization API — ahead of the 2027 compliance deadline.
Yes. Folio3 Digital Health staffs forward-deployed engineers to overlap with your working hours, including full US time-zone coverage (PST–EST), so your FDE is online during your standups and customer calls.
You do. All code, documentation, and intellectual property a forward-deployed engineer creates for you is assigned to your company under the engagement agreement. Folio3 retains no rights to the product an FDE builds on your behalf.
You do. All code, documentation, and intellectual property a forward-deployed engineer creates for client is assigned to client’s company under the engagement agreement. Folio3 retains no rights to the product an FDE builds on your behalf.
A traditional software engineer usually works from a fixed spec, at arm’s length, and hands code back through a ticketing system. A forward-deployed software engineer works the opposite way: embedded in your environment, talking directly to stakeholders, and owning the outcome not just the code in a repo. The real difference in forward deployed engineer vs software engineer is proximity and ownership.

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