COMPANY: Dendrite Clinical Systems
CHALLENGE: Give clinicians and researchers a secure, future proof way to capture and analyse rapidly expanding clinical data, without adding IT overheads for hospitals already stretched for time and budget.
OUTCOME: Dendrite’s web-based registry platform, powered by InterSystems technology, enables rapid scaling from pilot studies to multinational datasets. With automated data feeds, seamless integrations, and embedded analytics, it delivers cleaner, high-quality datasets while adapting quickly to clinical needs without re-engineering.
Dendrite Clinical Systems is a UK-based company that designs, builds, and hosts clinical databases and registries - covering more than 40 medical specialties in 35 countries. InterSystems has been Dendrite’s sole data platform partner since 1993, evolving its technology alongside Dendrite’s to support the business on its growth journey.
Each registry captures the entire patient journey – from symptom diaries recorded on a smartphone to laboratory values, surgical details, and long term outcomes – before letting clinicians retrieve insight instantly.
Built on InterSystems technology, Dendrite’s web based registry platform now supports projects that range from single centre pilots to multinational datasets containing hundreds of thousands of patient records. InterSystems IRIS for Health® supplies rapid searches, seamless third party integrations, and embedded analytics, allowing Dendrite to extend the system with its own specialist tools and quickly adapt it to new clinical demands.
Because growth of the database and the projects it supports no longer requires re engineering, registries can scale at speed. Automated feeds from hospital systems, national databases, and patient apps eliminate duplicate entries, improve data quality, and give researchers cleaner datasets.
R&D Director, Dendrite Clinical Systems
Phase 1: Laying the groundwork and choosing the right technology
From the outset, Dendrite has been free to concentrate on clinical logic and user experience, confident that InterSystems would provide scale, security and reliability.
InterSystems IRIS for Health’s “no limits” capacity is one of the solution’s most important benefits. Whether a registry holds 100,000 patient records or a million, performance remains steady. Standards based connectivity, explicitly including HL7 and FHIR, means most new links are set up rather than coded from scratch, which helps Dendrite bring fresh ideas to life quickly.
On the build side, developers can work in ObjectScript, Python, JavaScript and HTML, and Dendrite continues to create its own dashboards and synthetic‑patient generators that plug directly into the InterSystems platform. Same‑day answers keep projects moving and turn ideas into live features without delay....