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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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Reflections on the 3rd INTEROPen Hackathon
The 3rd INTEROPen Hackathon took place on Thursday 27 June in central London in collaboration with the One London LHCR (Local Health and Care Record). The event had 110 attendees from 29 IT Vendors and software development shops from NHS organisations. It was an outstanding event – valuable to both builders of software, LHCRs, the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Informed, inspired care
Lincolnshire Health and Care’s Gary James explains how the county’s new integrated Care Portal system will help transform healthcare for an ageing and widely dispersed population. The challenges we are facing today in Lincolnshire are the challenges of the future for the whole UK. As a healthcare system we need to deliver sustainable services for […]
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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 […]
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Work with the willing to achieve digital transformation
By aligning people, process and technology, chief information and technology officer Dr Graham Evans outlines how North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has created the building blocks for clinically-led digital transformation and joined-up health and care. Let us be clear. Digital transformation is not easy, especially in the NHS. It means working with patients, […]
Blogs
Once Upon a Time in Health and Social Care
Following on from representing techUK on an Interoperability Panel at UK Health Show, techUK Health and Social Care Council Member, David Hancock, reflects on the panel session and where we are delivering interoperability and if we will ever be successful, with some help from Sergio Leone What is happening today, is similar to characters at […]
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Technical Challenges of Interoperability
The ultimate technical challenge of interoperability is not defining the standards but getting the standards adopted and used. David Hancock, healthcare executive advisor at InterSystems highlights the biggest technical issues in adoption and how they should be overcome. Those of you who have read my three previous blogs will know that one of the main […]
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Vision without reality is just an illusion
Visions for IT in the NHS, with various levels of ambition, have come and gone. Now more than ever, it is in our interests to make digital transformation successful – it is vital for the service, for patients and tax payers. I applaud the honesty in Matt Hancock’s Tech Vision where the document says, “We […]
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself
Successful adoption of universal interoperability standards across the NHS requires collaboration and co-production – with all stakeholders including suppliers. David Hancock, Client Engagement Director at InterSystems urges the NHS not to mandate interoperability standards top-down, for risk of failure. The digital vision for Health and Care was published in October 2018 and there was a […]
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The reality of NHS interoperability
The reality of NHS interoperability If we are to effectively tackle the unprecedented financial, clinical and social problems in health and care most people accept that we have to integrate our local health economies. In this first of six blogs, David Hancock, client engagement director at InterSystems, explores why interoperability is top of the political […]
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Rules of Engagement
Allowing patients to be more engaged with their care can help people be healthier and deliver better health outcomes. Technology is seen as a key enabler. However, technology-enabled patient engagement is evolving. Globally, most countries exhibit a relatively low level of maturity of common patient engagement online functions such as patient access to medical records, […]
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