From Homegrown to Future-Ready: How Health Tech Companies Migrate to Frontegg

When you’re building a health tech platform, identity isn’t just another feature—it’s mission-critical. Patients, clinicians, and administrators all rely on appropriate access to sensitive information, and every authentication flow must balance usability with strict compliance.

To accommodate all the nuances involved, many companies start by coding their own customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems in-house. But as the business grows, that homegrown solution can become fragile, hard to maintain, and a major distraction from your core product.

That’s when the question comes up: how painful would migration from homegrown CIAM to an out-of-the box vendor be?

The fear of migration

For health tech companies, the thought of leaving a homegrown CIAM behind can be daunting. Teams worry about weeks or months of downtime while systems are re-wired. They picture frustrated users unable to log in because their credentials didn’t transfer cleanly. And of course, in healthcare, there’s the added weight of HIPAA, SOC 2, and security audits. No CTO wants to explain to a customer or worse, a regulator why patient data was inaccessible or exposed during a botched migration.

These are valid fears. But they’re also exactly the fears Frontegg was built to eliminate.

How Migration Works with Frontegg

Migrating to Frontegg doesn’t mean shutting down your old system and hoping the new one lights up. Instead, our process is designed for speed and safety.

Some customers spin up their Frontegg environments and have a production-ready login flow in just a single day. From there, we support both CSV-based bulk migrations and easy API-driven transfers. That means whether you want to move all your users at once or incrementally migrate them as they log in, you have options that minimize disruption.

Because Frontegg supports industry-standard hashing algorithms like Bcrypt, Argon2, and PBKDF2, users’ passwords migrate intact. They don’t have to reset credentials, and your team doesn’t have to keep two systems running in parallel. Once migration is complete, you instantly get access to enterprise-grade CIAM features—adaptive MFA, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, account hierarchies, and more—without months of custom development.

A few of Frontegg’s migration and integration success stories

Frontegg’s customers usually find their migration from homegrown to be surprisingly simple.

Consider the experience of Slope Software, which faced the challenge of moving away from its homegrown identity system. Their team initially feared a long, painful transition, but they said they completed the migration to Frontegg 85% faster than it would have taken on other platforms like Auth0—without any service disruption.

Read our guide on Frontegg vs Auth0

At Hint Health, which powers membership-based primary care, the engineering team was stretched thin maintaining a patchwork of identity code. Their VP of Engineering told us, “We were burning cycles just keeping login flows alive. Once we moved to Frontegg, we could finally focus on patient-facing features again.”

Similarly, at Cynerio, a healthcare IoT security provider, compliance was the tipping point. Their CTO recalled, “Every enterprise customer asked about SSO and audit logs. With our homegrown system, it would have taken months. With Frontegg, we had those features on day one.”

And in a recent webinar, the CTO of Insight Health described how low-maintenance the integration with Frontegg was: “We did not have to reach out to the Slack support channel even once during the integration process.”

A safer path forward

What these stories reveal is simple: migration doesn’t have to be a nightmare. With the right partner, it becomes a strategic upgrade. By moving from a fragile homegrown solution to Frontegg, health tech companies not only reduce risk, they gain velocity. Developers reclaim their time, compliance teams gain peace of mind, and patients and clinicians enjoy the right access.

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