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InterSystems’ advanced software empowers providers, the NHS, medical technology innovators, software developers, clinical laboratories, and life sciences companies to deliver what matters.
InterSystems’ advanced software empowers providers, the NHS, medical technology innovators, software developers, clinical laboratories, and life sciences companies to deliver what matters.
Health & Care
Empowering Better Care Matters
Effective and meaningful health information sharing, whether within a hospital or across an entire region, is the foundation for improving the quality, accessibility, and efficiency of health and care around the world. InterSystems has provided the foundation for successful, connected healthcare innovation around the world for over 35 years.
Bringing the right information to the right people at the right time remains an elusive goal for most healthcare organisations. We are dedicated to working with the NHS and other healthcare organisations to be successful and achieve digital transformation. That is our shared passion, and it drives a continual commitment to excellence in our software and services.
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Unifying Healthcare in Scotland
The NHS Scotland Patient Management System program for hospitals gives authorized users immediate access to better clinical and administration information from one standard healthcare information system. The program aims to improve patient care, modernize clinical processes, and encourage more cost-effective ways of working. It is a strategic part of the Scottish Government’s e-health transformation to […]
Success Stories
South Devon: Integrated and Informed Care with HealthShare
Acute and community teams are working closer together than ever before, through the integration of IT systems across health and care settings in South Devon. The NHS in Torbay and South Devon has been at the forefront of healthcare integration for more than a decade. In January 2015 the area achieved NHS England vanguard status […]
Success Stories
Child Protection Information Sharing
Child Protection Information Sharing: An integration mission to protect vulnerable children InterSystems has been working with NHS trusts to enable streamlined adoption of Child Protection Information Sharing. Pioneers could now offer lessons for national acceleration. Set up to help save lives, Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) launched in 2012, to provide frontline unscheduled care professionals […]
Success Stories
Coordinate My Care: enabling patient choice when it matters most
Sharing patient’s wishes with health and care providers across London through Coordinate My Care’s personalised urgent care plan is delivering care quality and operational benefits with a system that is better addressing patients’ needs. Over 500,000 people die in England and Wales every year , and almost half of those die in hospital – despite […]
Success Stories
Joining the dots to improve care
Joining the dots to improve care – Inside North Tees’ adoption of the TrakCare EPMA North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, which employs over 5,600 staff and has a 570-bed capacity, was the first English NHS trust to deploy the InterSystems’ TrakCare electronic patient record, in 2015. Since then, the trust has been using […]
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The Topol Review (or Mind the Gaps)
InterSystems Solution Architect at InterSystems considers how successful the Topol Review has been in meeting its objectives? The Topol Review published and presented in February 2019 with grand publicity and attendance from Matt Hancock and others, is the culmination of a year’s work by Eric Topol and a large team, sponsored by Health Education England […]
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Why sharing health and care information is not enough
Creating a digital version of the old paper system only gets health and care so far; we need to look at workflow beyond any one hospital or organisation, writes Mike Green, chief clinical information officer at South Devon and Torbay NHS Foundation Trust. Sharing information We have made some really big strides in sharing information […]
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Are we in the NHS reinforcing mental health stigma through excessive data secrecy?
If mental health data remains more secretive than HIV, cancer or diabetes, care inequality will continue, writes Dr James Reed, consultant forensic psychiatrist and chief clinical information officer at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, once carried a stigma with similarities to that of mental illnesses today. […]
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Coordinate My Care: a clinical solution to address NHS urgent care crisis?
Coordinate My Care: a clinical solution to address NHS urgent care crisis? Coordinate My Care is the digitally-enabled urgent care plan that embeds consent, connectivity and clinical context into a service that better coordinates care at times of most need. Professor Julia Riley, consultant in palliative medicine and clinical lead for Coordinate My Care, shares […]
Blogs
How CIOs Can Optimise their Digital Approach
How CIOs Can Optimise their Digital Approach Digital transformation is moving higher up the agenda for businesses across all industries. As a result, many organisations are making the shift to digital, integrating new digital technologies and processes to transform the way they operate and do business. As digital transformation continues to be a priority for […]
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Why Trust is at the Centre of Moving Beyond Compliance
Why Trust is at the Centre of Moving Beyond Compliance By Ken Mortensen, Data Protection Officer, InterSystems Last year saw a number of high-profile data breaches involving companies such as British Airways and Marriot. The latter was one of the biggest breaches of the year, exposing the data of almost 400 million people. Not only […]
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How can a CDO tackle conflicting data demands?
How can a CDO tackle conflicting data demands? by Ken Mortensen, Data Protection Officer, Global Trust & Privacy, InterSystems Today, few senior decision-makers within technology businesses go more than a day without being faced with the issues of privacy and security. The world has become so digitally interconnected that the role of the chief data […]
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Why Slow Data Is Holding You Back
Businesses today are increasingly looking to extract insight from the data they have access to in as near real-time as possible. They want to rapidly gain the insight and intelligence they need to drive optimum customer experiences; faster time to value and a competitive edge. However, to achieve this, companies first need to be able […]
Success Stories
InterSystems Ensemble empowers the UK Police to enhance public safety
Northgate Public Services understands the pressure on police forces to work more efficiently. For over 20 years, its Public Safety Division has delivered innovative software applications to police forces, emergency services and related organisations throughout the UK. Today, there is a pressing need for police forces to join up ‘silos’ of information. So when InterSystems […]
Success Stories
Eventsforce Leverages the Cloud to Cost-Effectively Satisfy Fluctuating Demand
Event planning may be the poster child for applications that have widely fluctuating usage patterns. “For most organizations, event planning is a sporadic and cyclical activity,” says George Sirius, CEO of Eventsforce, a leading provider of event planning and management software. “A customer may use our application heavily for the months leading up to an […]
News
How Augmented Intelligence is Changing the Workplace as We Know It
How Augmented Intelligence is Changing the Workplace as We Know It Jon Payne, Manager – Sales Engineering, InterSystems Where AI once equated to artificial intelligence, we are now beginning to talk about it in reference to augmented intelligence. Augmented intelligence is resulting in adaptive systems and intelligent tools which can be applied or used to […]
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How combatting the skills gap will aid digital transformation
How combatting the skills gap will aid digital transformation Digital is now profoundly important to businesses, with 80% of businesses in the process of digital transformation. However, organisations are currently experiencing a skills shortage in this area with many skilled developers either starting their own companies or being drawn to the excitement, pace and equity […]
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Why do we need DevOps?
Why do we need DevOps? by Luca Ravazzolo As DevOps is maturing and becomes even more more mainstream, at times organisations still grapple with how to use this kind of approach. The approach has changed mindsets, with concepts like continuous integration and continuous delivery becoming more commonplace. It has also highlighted the need for organisations […]
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What established businesses can learn from startups
What established businesses can learn from startups Saurav Gupta, InterSystems In recent years, we have seen a growing number of developers being drawn to the excitement and pace of working with innovative startups. As a result, medium-sized and large businesses are facing a growing skills gap and the challenge of competing with startups for talent […]
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Hacking Your Company Culture to Improve Productivity
Hacking Your Company Culture to Improve Productivity With highly stressed employees resulting in reduced productivity of 9.1%, organisations must be dynamic in order to succeed. One of the most common ways we are currently seeing businesses achieve this dynamism is from culture hacking. The idea of ‘hacking your culture to change your culture’ is something […]
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The Technological Developments Shaping Data Management Trends in 2019
The Technological Developments Shaping Data Management Trends in 2019 Jeff Fried, Director of Product Management, InterSystems The volume of data we deal with on a daily basis has grown massively over recent years, with 90 percent of the data in the world generated in the last two years alone. In fact, 2.5 quintillion bytes of […]
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Unpacking the Future of Containers
Unpacking the Future of Containers By Jon Payne, Developer Engineer at InterSystems A container-based approach has long proven to be popular with developers, particularly within a testing environment as an enabling part of a DevOps pipeline. While containers do offer an effective way to recompile code and test in a lightweight and rapid manner, the […]
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The Challenges of Cloud Native Development
The Challenges of Cloud Native Development Jon Payne, database engineer, InterSystems Months have passed since Devoxx 2018, but some of the conversations I had with the developers visiting our stand there still stick in my mind, probably because I found one or two of these talks so surprising. One of the main topics for discussion […]
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Slow Data Kills Business
More and more businesses today are looking to extract insight from the data they have access to in as near real-time as possible. They are looking to rapidly gain the insight and intelligence they need to drive optimum customer experiences; faster time to value and a competitive edge. These are elusive goals for many businesses […]
Success Stories
InterSystems Data Platform in a Fortune 100 Investment Bank
CUSTOMER Fortune 100 Investment Bank CHALLENGE The development manager at a top global investment bank needed to find a solution to meet the following demands of his organization’s business. OUTCOME The client deployed InterSystems data platform to address both the business and technical challenges. The customer management application must support the ability to answer ad-hoc […]
Success Stories
MFS Investment Management Improves Performance, Reduces Risk
Switch From Relational Database to InterSystems Data Platform Accommodates Growth Risk is inherent in investing, and minimizing that risk is a common goal for money managers. MFS Investment Management®, a global asset management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, manages more than $410 billion in assets for clients worldwide. When operating at the level of MFS, […]
Success Stories
Global Investment Bank Speeds Up Its Equity Trading System with InterSystems Data Platform
One of the world’s largest providers of financial services relies on InterSystems Data Platform to meet the challenges posed by its dramatic growth Benefits • High Volume Multi-Workload Processing • 3-5x Throughput Increase • 10x Performance Improvement • 75% Reduction in Operating Costs • Zero Performance or Reliability Issues A leading global sell-side investment bank […]
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Why Innovation Matters
Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector – Why Innovation Matters Currently, there are a number of critical challenges facing financial services firms. Among them are increasing trade volumes; periods of high market volatility; the introduction of new regulations, such as the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Fundamental Review of the Trading Book […]
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Why Innovation is Key to Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector
Why Innovation is Key to Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector As you’ll have read in the first part of this blog series, financial services firms are currently facing a number of critical challenges, such as complying with regulations like PSD2 and FRTB. Yet, until now, the majority have done very little […]