InterSystems Iberia wins computing prize

InterSystems Iberia, the Spanish arm of US health database and integration technology specialist InterSystems, has been awarded Spain’s national prize of Computer science and Health 2008.

The prize is awarded annually by the Spanish Society of Computer science of the Health (SEIS).

The prize recognizes InterSystems Iberia as the organization who made the greatest technological effort in the development of solutions for the healthcare sector in Spain in 2008.

Carlos Lopez Bravo, InterSystems Iberia general manager, said: "We are all delighted by this recognition of InterSystems achievements. For 31 years InterSystems has researched and developed solutions that make valuable contributions by addressing the real needs of information systems for healthcare organisations.”

During 2008 InterSystems projects included the migration of the integration software used by the public Hospital Costa del Sol to InterSystems Ensemble. InterSystems say the initial phase of the migration was carried out in five days

Applications integrated in the new platform were: the HP-HCIS (Health Care Information System) from HP; the Anatomy Pathology (InfoPAT) application from Ingenia; a computer science Laboratory system (LILY) from Roche; the Pharmacy management system (Dominion); the Endobase (Olympus) pharmacy system and the prescription management application (PYXIS Starter).

Ensemble was also selected by the University Hospital La Paz, in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, to integrate the system management of its new Laboratory Results Center with the system management for the hospital Laboratories. The complex project was completed on schedule in less than a month.

The interconnection of these systems through Ensemble ensured the seamless and verified data management for patient registration, procedures, and associated laboratory tests, as well as obtaining patient demographic data from their local hospital.

Other high-profile national health IT projects to have selected InterSystems include: AORTA the national infrastructure for the exchange of data between healthcare providers for The Netherlands; and the Swedish national electronic health record known as the National Patient Overview.

Important regional projects include integrating GDF (Governo do Distrito Federal) in Brasilia, to connect all the healthcare centres, diagnostic laboratories, public pharmacies, and hospitals of the Federal District, and in the USA for the two Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) in Long Island and Rhode Island.