InterSystems in Healthcare

Most of the top hospitals, labs, and healthcare application providers around the world rely on our technology.

The term "mission-critical" is often misused when describing computer applications. But in healthcare, the description fits exactly. Healthcare applications often have life-or-death dimensions – a patient's life can hinge on the instant availability and accuracy of information. It makes sense that professionals responsible for healing and saving people's lives would only choose proven technology that meet the most stringent requirements for performance and reliability.

Healthcare application developers around the world
choose technology from InterSystems.

• Nearly every major hospital around the world runs its critical clinical applications on InterSystems Caché®.
• InterSystems Ensemble® was ranked #1 for interface engines in the KLAS healthcare industry survey for the past three years.
• InterSystems HealthShare™ is being chosen for health information exchanges around the world.
• The top 10 hospitals in the U.S. as ranked by U.S. News & World Reportuse our database technology.
• 70 percent of the clinical labs in the United States depend on our technology including the top three:Quest Diagnostics; Convance Central Laboratory Services (formerly Corning Sci/Cor); and LabCorp of America.
• Leading healthcare solution providers worldwide use our technology, including EMIS, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, QuadraMed, iSOFT, McKesson, JAC, Siemens Medical, Torex Healthcare, and many more.
• InterSystems Corporation is one of the top 25 "Most Influential Companies/ Organizations in Healthcare Information Technology" according to the prestigious publication, Advance for Healthcare Information Executives.

Why is Our Technology Found in So Many Healthcare Solutions?

Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare are all based on innovative technology that provides benefits the healthcare industry demands.

Lightning-fast performance

Healthcare applications are typically very large and characterized by complex business rules and data structures. The unique multidimensional data structures used by our products are ideally suited to storing and manipulating complex information. With our technology, data does not have to be “disassembled” in order to be stored in the rigid tables used by relational databases. (Nor does it need to be “reassembled” when you want to use it.) Healthcare solutions that use our technology are faster than those based on relational databases.

Massive scalability

Change, growth, and mergers are major forces in healthcare. Solutions that use our technology can grow from a single PC client to networks with hundreds of servers and tens of thousands of clients without changing a single line of code or sacrificing performance. In fact, the largest integrated client/server system in the world serving over 50,000 users – runs on Caché in a healthcare environment.

Robust reliability

Healthcare is a 24 x 7 endeavor, and its solutions have to be always available. We include a number of resiliency features in our products, so the solutions they power can run unceasingly.

Trustworthy security

To be effective, healthcare organizations need to store and share sensitive personal information. Our products include tools that IT professionals can use to build security into their solutions, protecting patient and clinical data both “at rest” and “in motion”.

Flexible interoperability

Our products support a wide range of standards found in healthcare solutions including HL7 (v2 and v3), CDA, CCD, DICOM, NCPDP, and RLS. And of course, they work with general software development technologies and protocols like Java, .NET, XML and SOAP, C++, ODBC, JDBC, and many more.

Cost-effectiveness

Cost containment is a top priority in healthcare. Healthcare solutions based on our technology typically provide high levels of performance and reliability while requiring less in the way of computing resources and system administration. That allows healthcare organizations to spend less time and money caring for technology, and more caring for people.

Our technology is deployed by the most prestigious healthcare organizations in the world

Every year, U.S. News & World Report recognizes hospitals that perform at a very high level across many specialties by listing them on its Honor Roll. To be included, a hospital must demonstrate unusual competence in at least six of 16 specialties. For the past several years, the top 10 hospitals on the list have been institutions that use our products for their critical applications. This year all of the top hospitals use our products.

These respected hospitals, with deserving reputations for world-class excellence, seek out the most reliable, highest performing, and most cost-effective information technology available to maintain their leadership. And this is why InterSystems' products are the lifeblood of so many leading hospitals in the United States, and around the world in 88 other countries.

The top hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll for 2009 are:

1 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
2 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
3 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
4 Cleveland Clinic
5 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
7 University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
8 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
9 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
10 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
10 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
12 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
13 UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
15 Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.
16 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
17 NYU Medical Center, New York
17 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
19 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York
20 Methodist Hospital, Houston
21 Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus