Your healthcare data is about personal as it gets,  and Edifecs wants to offer you peace of mind while it’s in motion.

With legal mandates such as HIPAA governing the handling of healthcare information, exchanging this data can be a complex process. Bellevue-based Edifecs focuses on healthcare data interoperability—the ability for multiple systems to share patient records—aiming to make the healthcare system more efficient for both patients and providers.

Founded in an Issaquah condo by Sunny Singh more than 25 years ago, the company launched on the platform of alleviating friction in the healthcare system by simplifying data exchange. Edifecs’ mission and primary offerings, which include cloud platforms and services for operations, data interchange, and interoperability, are rooted in making this exchange seamless across the entire healthcare ecosystem, from patients to providers to insurers. These systems save hospitals, doctors’ offices, and healthcare companies time and money by reducing administrative costs and providing easier access to patient files. They also help improve care, giving providers comprehensive data to make better-informed decisions. Edifecs serves nearly 300 million people in the U.S. healthcare market.

“How can we use all of that data together to tell a story, so it’s not just bits and pieces?” asks Katie Bunker, Edifecs’ vice-president of human resources. “We’re really doing a great job of simplifying the data interchange between the different payers and the providers.”

Earlier this year, the firm was acquired by Cotiviti, a Utah-based healthcare data analytics company, in a deal worth more than $3 billion. The acquisition will allow the company to offer a “continuum” of complementary services, “from the front of the house right through to the back garden,” explains Bunker.

“As an end-to-end digital data exchange leader, Edifecs has significantly advanced interoperability, enhancing collaboration between payers and providers for better care delivery,” said Emad Rizk, M.D., chairman, president, and CEO of Cotiviti at the time of the acquisition.

And, according to Bunker, Edifecs’ mission for holistic healthcare and wellbeing extends beyond what it offers to its clients. Since its inception, the company has grown to more than 1,000 employees, with half in the U.S. and half in India. Across that workforce, Edifecs takes a comprehensive approach to individuals’ wellness, offering an onsite Wellbeing Center and gym (employees have access to fitness and yoga classes, meditation, and nutritional counseling, daily tea service, communal bikes and kayaks), free biometric testing, smoking cessation programs, and other health-forward initiatives.

“We’re very, very focused on holistic well-being,” says Bunker. “I think we really do live our values.”