Platform announced for the Intelligent Hospital

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, and the Intelligent Hospital, a subsidiary of the RFID in Healthcare Consortium, have announced that InterSystems HealthShare will be the official health informatics platform for the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 23-26, 2014.

One of the most popular attractions at HIMSS, with over 7,000 visitors last year, the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion will provide exciting demonstrations and use cases of health information technology from multiple collaborating vendors.

InterSystems HealthShare is a health informatics platform that provides strategic interoperability and analytics for action across a hospital network, community, region or nation. At the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion, HealthShare will enable technologies from multiple vendors to interoperate seamlessly with state-of-the-art medical equipment, illustrating how interoperability improves the overall patient care experience.

“Interoperability is not a pipe dream. InterSystems is delivering an informatics platform for strategic interoperability today, and we are delighted to work with InterSystems as a sponsor as well as active participant in the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion,” said Dr. Paul Frisch, President, CTO, RFID in Healthcare Consortium.

“InterSystems is thrilled that HealthShare has been selected as the official informatics platform for the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion. We believe healthcare IT breakthroughs start with capturing, sharing, understanding and acting upon all patient data, including the critically important insights found in unstructured patient notes and images. This is why we consider interoperability a strategic imperative,” said Paul Grabscheid (pictured), Vice President of Strategic Planning, InterSystems.

Certified for interoperability by IHE USA and ICSA Laboratories, InterSystems HealthShare is used by leading healthcare providers, statewide HIEs, and national health systems worldwide. HealthShare facilitates strategic initiatives such as population health management, care coordination, community engagement, and more patient-centered care.

InterSystems will demonstrate use cases of its informatics platform at three Intelligent Hospital Pavilion rooms that simulate points of the care continuum:

•   Emergency room
•   Labor and delivery
•   Cardiology suite

Nelson Le, MD, Clinical Advisor for InterSystems, will be presenting at the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014, Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at 1:00-2:00 pm, Booth 8265-61. His topic is “Population Health Management: The Health Informatics Platform for Analytics and Actions.”

To see a video of the 2013 Intelligent Hospital Pavilion, visit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xENjn7K12F0

About the RFID in Healthcare Consortium

The RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) is a not-for-profit, global organization founded to elevate awareness and to educate the Life Sciences community on the adoption of new technologies. The RHCC is an educationally focused, vendor-neutral, technology and frequency agnostic, association dedicated to promoting the use and adoption of auto-ID, NFC, RFID, RTLS, sensors and wireless technologies in the healthcare, assisted and independent living and nursing home industries. For more information, please visit www.rfidinhealthcare.org and www.intelligenthospital.org.

About InterSystems

InterSystems is a global leader in software for connected care, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 25 countries. InterSystems HealthShare is a health informatics platform that enables strategic interoperability and analytics for action across a hospital network, community, region or nation. InterSystems CACHÉ is the world’s most widely used database system in clinical applications. InterSystems Ensemble is a platform for rapid integration and the development of connectable applications. InterSystems’ products are used by thousands of hospitals and laboratories worldwide, including all of the top 15 hospitals on the Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.