A Production Cerner EHR Proxy SDK Took Two AI Clinical Agents From Demo to First Hospital Deal

An AI health company building AI employees for hospitals needed a production grade Cerner Millennium integration before any hospital would sign. We built the Cerner module of their EHR Proxy SDK, containerized it for repeatable onboarding, and validated it against a live hospital environment, closing the company's first Cerner deal with two AI agents deployable on site.

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Customer Focus

AI health company building AI employees for hospitals

Scope

Cerner Millennium EHR integration for the AI Scribe and AI Receptionist agents

Stack

Node.js, pnpm monorepo, Docker, EHR Proxy SDK

Status

Delivered as a fixed scope engagement in 2024, Phase 2 Epic integration followed

Outcomes

From Integration Gap to First Cerner Deal

The Cerner module made two AI agents production ready inside a live hospital environment.

1

Hospital deal closed on Cerner Millennium, the company's first

2

AI agents made production deployable on Cerner: AI Scribe and AI Receptionist

5

Clinical workflow endpoint categories covered: patient, appointment, encounter, notes, insurance

The Problem

Two Problems Standing Between Demo and Deployment

No hospital signs before EHR integration is proven, and integration logic has to live in the right place, not scattered across every agent.

01
EHR Access Was the Sales Gate

Hospitals would not commit to a contract until the AI Scribe and AI Receptionist could prove they could read and write inside a live Cerner instance. That meant production grade integration, not a proof of concept.

02
Cerner Logic Needed Its Own Layer

Cerner Millennium's REST APIs are hospital EHR specific for every workflow. Building that logic inside each agent would mean fixing one Cerner endpoint in two separate codebases every time something changed.

03
The FHIR Spec and Cerner's Sandbox Didn't Agree

Cerner Millennium's actual API behavior diverges from the published FHIR spec in ways that only surface in live testing, particularly around appointment scheduling validation. We mapped each endpoint against Cerner's sandbox rather than the spec, and built the SDK to handle those behaviors explicitly.

The Tech Stack

Node.js, pnpm monorepo, Cerner Millennium REST APIs, EHR Proxy SDK, Docker, and an automated end to end integration test suite.

  • Node.js
  • pnpm Monorepo
  • Cerner Millennium REST APIs
  • EHR Proxy SDK
  • Docker
  • Automated E2E Testing
What We Built

The Cerner Module, End to End

One Abstraction Boundary for Cerner

We built the Cerner module of the EHR Proxy SDK in Node.js inside a pnpm monorepo alongside the other agent services. All Cerner Millennium REST API logic lives in the SDK. Neither the AI Scribe nor the AI Receptionist contains EHR specific code. When an agent needs patient data or needs to write a note, it calls the SDK, which handles routing, authentication, error handling, and Cerner's specific API behavior.

  • Patient search and read, shared by both agents
  • Encounter records and clinical notes, DocumentReference and NoteEntry, for the AI Scribe
  • Appointment get, create, and update, plus insurance and coverage queries, for the AI Receptionist
  • Practitioner directory lookup, shared by both agents

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Global Tech Teams LLC, 525 Washington Blvd, Industrious at Newport Tower, Jersey City, NJ 07310, United States.

Contact

+1 408 786 5974
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