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InterSystems Introduces HealthShare
High Performance, Massively Scalable Information Delivery Framework
Targets Health Information Exchange Networks Forming Worldwide
Sydney, Australia — July 27, 2006 — InterSystems Corporation today launched HealthShare (formerly known as Ensemble Health Information Exchange) in Australia. HealthShare is a new software product that enables fast, cost-effective, and secure clinical data exchange for the rapidly expanding health information exchange networks now being designed and developed around the world.
The leading database provider in healthcare, InterSystems develops and markets the CACHÉ post-relational database and Ensemble rapid integration platform.
"HealthShare is a new edition of our Ensemble rapid integration platform that combines advanced development and integration features with standards-based healthcare-exchange-specific functionality,” said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems Vice President of Strategic Planning.
Pre-built for Fast Development, Deployment
The new HealthShare product extends Ensemble with six advanced software services:
- Clinical Data Exchange Services , with support for emerging standards;
- Patient Identification Services , which provide high fidelity, high performance patient search and record location and support industry leading patient match engines;
- Consent Management Services , for recording and enforcing patient opt in or opt out declarations;
- Terminology Services , with support for a wide variety of standard terminology sets including SNOMED, ICD 9/10, CPT and LOINC;
- Security Services , including strong encryption, authentication and authorisation technologies; and
- Access Services , including direct integration points to enable existing applications to access remote demographic and clinical data as well as a powerful clinical viewer that provides intuitive access to virtually any clinical data through an easy-to-deploy pure browser interface.
With this broad range of services, HealthShare offers a different approach to building health information exchange (HIE) systems. Because of the diversity of approaches being tried with HIE, as well as the rapid evolution of technical standards, packaged application solutions lack the flexibility to meet the unique requirements of each healthcare community. As a result, most HIE systems are built as “one of a kind” development projects that combine general-purpose technologies – integration engines, databases, portals, and so on – with substantial custom application development.
By combining a set of comprehensive health exchange services with rapid development tools for efficiently closing the gap between those services and the unique approach and requirements of each healthcare community, HealthShare is designed to dramatically speed the development and deployment of health information exchange solutions.
“The result is a healthcare development and integration framework that can cut the time required to build networks for clinical information exchange by as much as 90%”, according to Grabscheid.
Meeting the Needs of the Australian Healthcare System
“HealthShare offers a standards-based, easy-to-use starting point for varying exchange styles, from virtual electronic health record (EHR) to centralised repository architectures,” said Denis Tebbutt, Managing Director, Australia. “HealthShare enables existing healthcare applications to quickly move into the world of web services and service oriented architecture, so healthcare organisations in Australia can start reaping the benefits of an HIE in a short period of time,” said Tebbutt.
High Performance, Massive Scalability, Easy Management
Building on more than two decades of delivering software that supports literally tens of thousands of healthcare systems worldwide, InterSystems’ track record for providing high performance, extremely scalable software is recognised throughout the healthcare sector. Healthcare professionals will be depending on fast information delivery in what can be life-or-death situations. InterSystems’ proven ability to scale up to support millions of patients and many thousands of users means pilot projects can demonstrate success, then expand as required.
Enterprise-scale healthcare integration projects built on Ensemble have been developed and deployed worldwide since the product was initially launched in 2003. The choice of Ensemble as the underlying integration platform for a countrywide EHR rollout throughout the Netherlands is just the most recent example of the power, speed and scalability offered by Ensemble.
HealthShare also provides the customisable, extensible end-to-end management and monitoring facilities that are key to successfully managing large, complex HIE networks, including:
- Graphical Visual Trace to rapidly diagnose and debug system problems
- Web-based interface to enable local or remote management
- Persistent Object Engine that enables real-time access to messages for business activity monitoring, auditing, reporting and management.
Partnering with Healthcare Industry Leaders
InterSystems is partnering with prominent healthcare technology suppliers to ensure HealthShare provides the top-tier software needed for specialised healthcare processes. InterSystems is working with technology leaders like Initiate Systems and Health Language, Inc. to deliver patient identity and terminology server capabilities within the HealthShare framework. “Our strategy is to leverage leading products with a successful track record to manage functions such as identity and terminology processing,” Grabscheid noted. “The partners we are choosing are experts in these areas and provide the best available solutions via the HealthShare platform,” he said.
Pricing and Availability
HealthShare is scheduled for general availability in 3Q06. Pricing for HealthShare Hub is based on patient population and starts at US$40,000. HealthShare Gateway for hospitals is priced based on hospital size and starts at US$50,000.
About InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation is a privately-held US$200,000,000 company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. and offices in 22 countries. InterSystems CACHÉ® is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble® is a rapid integration platform that enriches applications with new functionality, and makes them connectable. InterSystems HealthShare™ is a platform that leverages existing healthcare applications to rapidly create regional or national electronic health records.
InterSystems is the predominant vendor of database and integration software for healthcare applications. CACHÉ and Ensemble are used as the core technology for clinical applications in thousands of hospitals around the world, including all U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense hospitals, and the Kaiser Permanente network. Leading software vendors who build clinical application products with InterSystems' technologies include Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, Misys Healthcare, QuadraMed, and many more. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.
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