Seattle and New York, September 25, 2025 — Opala, a leading healthcare interoperability partner for payers, providers, and digital health companies, has selected Firely as its strategic FHIR partner, and went live in less than six months.
The partnership ensures Opala can scale securely and sustainably while enabling its customers to adopt compliant solutions in preparation for interoperability mandates such as CMS’ Interoperability & Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F).
With CMS-0057-F deadlines approaching, many healthcare organizations face a common challenge: achieving compliance while building high-performance, secure, and cost-effective FHIR infrastructure at scale for a broad range of use cases.
Opala’s HealthSynq™ platform addresses this by collecting, standardizing, and consolidating healthcare data in near real time—helping customers to not only meet interoperability mandates, but strengthen collaboration with providers and improve care and affordability for patients.
This summer, Opala turned to Firely’s enterprise-grade FHIR server and expertise to accelerate innovation and growth.
Together, Firely and Opala are delivering:
- Scalability: Proven performance with fast, large-scale data exchange
- Security: Enterprise-grade safeguards for sensitive health data
- Cost-efficiency: A sustainable model that avoids financial barriers to growth
- Compliance readiness: Full support for CMS-0057 requirements
- Futureproofing: A FHIR-native foundation that enables innovation beyond regulatory mandates
“Regulatory compliance is essential, but it’s only the foundation. Our customers expect more,” said Scott Ross, Chief Technology Officer at Opala. “We evaluated our tech stack and realized that Firely’s FHIR solution was the right option to scale our business. Firely’s robust FHIR server and deep expertise give us the confidence to not only meet the CMS mandate, but also to transform payer–provider data exchange into a true strategic advantage.”
As one of the initiators of the HL7 FHIR standard, Firely brings a wealth of expertise and a portfolio of 100% FHIR-native software, training, and consultancy trusted by governments, payers, providers, and vendors worldwide. Partnering with Firely gives Opala a proven foundation for large-scale, time-sensitive data exchange, critical for meeting compliance requirements and enabling secure, real-time interoperability for population health and value-based contracting.
“We are thrilled to support Opala in setting the standard for healthcare organizations preparing for CMS-0057,” said Mat Osmanski, Principal Consultant at Firely. “Opala understands that interoperability isn’t just about mandates, it’s about reducing costs, improving collaboration, and enabling better care. Firely is proud to provide the FHIR foundation that makes this possible.”
With more than 7.8 million patients and 111,000 providers already supported by its platform, Opala is demonstrating how healthcare organizations can act decisively on compliance while laying the groundwork for future innovation. By partnering with Firely, Opala has shown that choosing the right FHIR partner can unlock long-term scalability, financial sustainability, and transformation.
About Opala
Opala collects healthcare data, organizes it, and shares it with doctors, hospitals, and insurers so that patients get better care, and healthcare becomes more affordable. Opala’s HealthSynq™ platform supports claims, clinical, lab, and ADT data, delivering >97% patient matching and near real-time data availability.
With solutions designed for interoperability mandates, quality and risk, and care management, Opala helps their customers improve care outcomes, optimize costs, and meet interoperability mandates.
About Firely
Firely is a global digital health company helping payers, providers, vendors, and governments unlock compliance, reduce administrative costs, and modernize infrastructure with FHIR. As one of the initiators of the HL7 FHIR standard, Firely has been shaping its evolution from the very beginning—and knows what it takes to implement it at scale.
Firely’s 100% FHIR-based solutions—Firely Server, Simplifier.net, and the official open-source .NET SDK for HL7 FHIR—are trusted worldwide to simplify interoperability and accelerate compliance with mandates like CMS-0057-F. Beyond software, Firely provides training, consultancy, and expertise to help organizations turn regulation into a competitive advantage.
Firely is also a founding member of the FHIR Business Alliance and the driving force behind HL7 FHIR DevDays, the world’s foremost FHIR event.