Nordic vs Tegria
Updated October 20, 2026
Health systems moving to Epic or rebuilding parts of it usually hire an outside consulting firm, because the project needs more specialists than most IT departments keep on staff. Nordic and Tegria both sell that help, and the split buyers tend to miss is what each firm offers once the go-live is over: Nordic has leaned into running day-to-day Epic support for health systems, while Tegria has added hosting and cybersecurity services around its consulting. Which of those you may want next shapes the better pick, so we compared the two firms.
Our analysts compared Nordic and Tegria on focus, size, ownership, long-term support, go-live results, and knowledge handover, using the HIR review of each firm and each firm's own announcements this year. In the following sections, we compare them in one table, describe the health system each firm suits, and list what each has announced recently.
Nordic vs Tegria at a glance, October 2026
| What buyers weigh | Nordic | Tegria |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Consulting billed by the hour, at a fixed price, or a mix. | Hourly, fixed-price, or blended consulting, scoped in the statement of work. |
| What drives cost | How long close support lasts after go-live, how senior the consultants are, and improvement work after go-live. | How long close support after go-live runs, and how the mix of hourly and fixed-price work is set up. |
| Main focus | Epic setup and improvement, Epic application managed services, and advisory, ERP, and cloud work. | Healthcare consulting and delivery across Epic and other products, plus hosting, managed IT, and payer work. |
| Size | More than 3,300 professionals supporting more than 700 clients, including through its Canadian arm, Healthtech. | More than 1,000 professionals serving more than 650 provider and payer clients in North America and Europe. |
| Ownership | Owned by Bon Secours Mercy Health, a Catholic not-for-profit health system based in Cincinnati. | A healthcare consulting and services company headquartered in Spokane, Washington. |
| Long-term support | Takes over day-to-day Epic application support for health systems, and can move their Epic staff onto its team. | Hosting and application support, with a security operations center added through its CloudWave purchase. |
| Stable go-lives | Scores 7.7 on stable go-lives. | Scores 7.9 on stable go-lives. |
| Knowledge handover | Scores 7.1 on leaving your staff able to run the system. | Scores 7.7 on leaving your staff able to run the system. Higher score |
| Specialist depth | Scores 7.6 for the Epic specialists on its team. | Scores 7.3 for healthcare workflow experience. |
| Time to full value | About 4 to 11 months | About 4 to 11 months |
| What you need first | A major Epic project (setup, improvement, or stabilizing) that needs deep module knowledge. | An internal product owner assigned to work with the partner team. |
| Deal-breaker | Your project is a small software install where the vendor's setup help is included. | You refuse to assign an internal product owner to work with the partner. |
| Pricing clarity score | 6.9 | 7.1 |
| HIR overall score | 7.4, Recommend. | 7.6, Recommend. |
| Best for | Health systems running major Epic projects that need consultants with deep module and workflow knowledge. | Health systems that need deep setup skills for Epic-related or multi-product projects. |
| Not a fit for | Tiny clinics installing one software tool with the vendor's setup help included. | Buyers shopping only on the lowest average hourly rate. |
Which fits which buyer
Decide what you will want from the firm after the go-live.
Choose Nordic if
- Your project is mostly Epic setup or improvement and needs deep module specialists.
- You may hand daily Epic application support to an outside team later.
- You prefer a firm owned by a not-for-profit health system.
Choose Tegria if
- Leaving your own staff able to run the system is the top goal.
- Your work spans Epic and other products, or payer systems.
- You want hosting and security operations from the same firm.
Verdict
Tegria scores higher and fits health systems that want strong handover to their own staff plus hosting and security under one contract. Nordic fits Epic-heavy programs that want deep module specialists and may want long-term managed support.
Both price by custom quote, so compare statements of work that list the consultants and how long close support lasts after go-live.
Where the two tools are headed in 2027 and beyond
Nordic: Nordic announced on March 4, 2026, that it would take over Epic application support for Catholic Health in Western New York from June 1, 2026, with no job losses for the system's Epic staff. It opened a delivery center in Mexico on August 5, 2026, to support Epic, managed services, analytics, and AI work.
Tegria: Tegria won a CMS contract on September 21, 2026, to support the modernization of Medicare fee-for-service claims processing. It announced the purchase of CloudWave, a healthcare hosting and cybersecurity firm, on October 19, 2026.
Ask each firm how those moves will change the team assigned to your account.
Methodology
Each row comes from the HIR reviews of Nordic and Tegria, scored under the HIR method, and from each vendor's public pricing where it exists. Any published price for Nordic or Tegria was checked on that vendor's own site on October 20, 2026.
A green check marks a clear edge for Nordic or Tegria only where their review scores differ by at least 0.3 points or the two reviews show a plain difference. Rows with nothing published for either Nordic or Tegria are left out, and time to full value for each adds up the rollout stages in its review.
Sources
- HIR review of Nordic and HIR review of Tegria
- Catholic Health and Nordic announce strategic partnership, March 4, 2026
- Nordic expands global team with new delivery capabilities, August 5, 2026
- Tegria selected by CMS to support ClaimsCore modernization, September 21, 2026
- Tegria acquires CloudWave, October 19, 2026