InterSystems in Health Care

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

The term "mission-critical" is often misused when describing computer applications. But in health care, the description fits exactly. Health care 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 meets the most stringent requirements for performance and reliability.

Health care 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® has been ranked #1 or #2 for interface engines in the KLAS health care industry survey every year since 2006.
InterSystems HealthShare™ is used by regional and national health information exchanges around the world.
All of the best hospitals in the U.S. as ranked by U.S. News & World Report use 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 health care solution providers worldwide use our technology, including Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, QuadraMed, iSOFT, McKesson, EMIS, JAC, Sunquest, and many more.
The most successful countrywide/large-scale connected care systems are InterSystems-based (Holland, Sweden, Chile, U.S. military, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Kaiser Permanente, and others)

Why is Our Technology Found in So Many Health Care Solutions?

Caché, Ensemble, DeepSee, HealthShare, and TrakCare (not available in the United States) are all based on advanced technologies that provide benefits the health care industry demands

Innovation

The healthcare industry needs innovative technology to help it break the cost-care conundrum – delivering better care while reducing costs. InterSystems addresses this need with continuous advancements in database and integration technology that include:

Data aggregation and normalization, enabling seamless information exchange and the use of all of an organization's information in analytics and other applications
Active analytics based on the current data in transactional systems, to drive better decision making and intelligent action throughout the organization
Strategic portals for engaged online communities of patients and clinicians, to promote better care and community leadership

Lightning-fast performance

Health care 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.) Health care solutions that use our technology are faster than those based on relational databases.

Massive scalability

Change, growth, and mergers are major forces in health care. Solutions that use our technology can grow from a single user to networks with hundreds of servers and tens of thousands of users without changing a single line of code or sacrificing performance. One healthcare system in the U.S., for example, supports 55,000 users with its Caché-based applications.

Robust reliability

Health care 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, health care 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 health care solutions including HL7 (v2 and v3), CDA, CCD, DICOM, IHE profiles, NCPDP, X12, 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 health care. Health care 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 health care organizations to spend less time and money caring for technology, and more caring for people.

Our technology is deployed by the most prestigious
health care 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 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 2011-12 are:

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York, NY

UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO

UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA

University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor, MI

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Stanford, CA