It's time to announce the Winners for July! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in July:

🥇 @YURI MARX GOMES, Software Architect, YM Services, Brazil
🥈 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria
🥉 @Sergei Sarkisian, Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corporation, UAE
🥉 @Irène Mykhailova, Associate professor, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

It's time to announce the Winners for June! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in June:

🥇 @Danny Wijnschenk, Application Developer/Owner, Winfo, Belgium

🥈 @Lorenzo Scalese, Solution Architect, Zorgi, Belgium

🥉 @YURI MARX GOMES, Software Architect, YM Services, Brazil

🥉 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

It's time to announce the Winners for May 2022! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in May 2022:

🥇 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

🥈 @José Pereira,Business Intelligence Analyst at Shift Consultoria e Sistemas LTDA, Brazil

🥉 @Heloisa Ramalho, Software Developer in the Application Services, InterSystems, USA

🥉 @Guilherme Mendes, Developer, BPlus Tecnologia, Brazil
 

 Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below. 

Hi Developers!

Check out our new Ready, Set, Go fun campaign on Global Masters where you can swim 🏊‍♂️  ,  bike 🚴‍♀️  , and run 🏃‍♂️  your way through eight challenges to collect points and earn bragging rights.

Don't miss the opportunity to tell us a story of why you started programming and read stories of other participants, share with us the hardest part in coding for you and even leave a review for any of the Open Exchange applications and get bonus points 🌟 . 

So, are you ready?😉 🏁  

It's time to announce the Winners for April 2022! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in April 2022:

🥇 @Muhammad Waseem, HIS Team Lead, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

🥈 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

🥉 @Javier Lorenzo Mesa, Analyst Developer, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Spain

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

It's time to announce the Winners for March! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in March:

🥇  @YURI MARX GOMES, Software Architect, YM Services, Braz

🥈  @Prashanth Ponugoti, Technical Architect, Optimus IT Infra Ltd, London, United Kingdom 

🥉  @Djeniffer Greffin, Soluctions Architect, Sabin Medicina Diagnóstica, Brazil

 Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

July 6th, 2016

InterSystems has corrected a defect with Mirroring that can impact data integrity

The defect is present in all released versions Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare beginning with 2015.2.0. It is present for all platforms and affects both failover and asynchronous mirroring configurations.

Comprehensive patient view, communication and data sharing, and population health management are key components

Federal agencies have been incenting healthcare providers to leverage their electronic health records (EHRs) to get patients involved in the management of their care. Most organizations, however, haven’t moved beyond patient engagement as an item to be checked off in order to receive meaningful use incentive funding.

Typically, providers rely on patient portal functionality that healthcare IT vendors package with their EHR products.

Executive Summary

An accountable care organization (ACO) is a group of providers that are collectively responsible for the total cost and quality of care provided to a specific population of patients. Together, the group assumes risk and shares rewards. As with high-performing organizations in other industries, the hallmarks of ACOs are quality measurement and continuous improvement.

Like other care models that are experiencing changing reimbursement structures, ACOs require new competencies to coordinate the delivery of care, and to manage populations, finances and risk.

Featuring the results of the HIMSS Analytics Interoperability Study

Introduction

Interoperability - the ability of health information systems to exchange, transform and interpret shared data across multiple systems and devices, and across organizational boundaries, in order to advance the health status of, and the effective delivery of healthcare for, individuals and communities - gained widespread attention in the United States when President Bush called for interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) in his 2004 State of the Union Address.

Overview

Integrated Delivery networks (IDNs) face complex challenges in getting the right data into the right hands, at the right time, with the goal of more informed decision-making and improved clinical and financial performance.

In many cases today, even with the use of traditional business intelligence tools and an enterprise data warehouse, important data often remains hard to access and difficult to aggregate and present to healthcare providers in a useful, unified format.

A business case for the transition from eGate to InterSystems EnsembleÆ From interface engine to integration platform Healthcare IT is evolving so rapidly that the term "HL7 interface engine" may soon become extinct.

Introduction

Software services, in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), can be used again and again in many different business processes, making for a very flexible, efficient, and vibrant business and information technology infrastructure. Providing, of course, that IT has the right platform in place for modeling business processes and implementing the SOA. Using the InterSystems Ensemble product as an example, this paper examines two key technologies that are absolutely essential for successful SOA implementation, but missing from most SOA development platforms.

Customers who switch to Caché from relational databases report that their average performance is up to 20 time faster, running on the same hardware, with no changes to the application. What is it about Caché that lets applications run so fast?

InterSystems Caché 2015.1 soars from 6 million to more than 21 million end-user database accesses per second on the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 family compared to Caché 2013.1 on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family

Overview

With data volumes soaring and the opportunities to derive value from data rising, database scalability has become a crucial challenge for a wide range of industries. In healthcare, the rising demands for healthcare services and significant changes in the regulatory and business climates can make the challenges particularly acute.

Using Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions with InterSystems Caché Substantially Improves Encryption Performance and Reduces Computational Overhead

Executive Summary

Financial services companies have an ever-growing need to encrypt databases containing sensitive customer and trade data. However, using encryption on these databases can require significant computational resources, potentially impacting trading latencies.

The CIO Perspective

Executive Summary

Addressing the challenge of reducing hospital readmissions using manual processes is not a viable long-term solution. With other IT mandates demanding time and attention, your readmissions initiatives may suffer. However, with the right health information technology (HIT) platform, you can sustain efforts to reduce readmission rates and make processes more efficient and effective. Enabling interoperability and access to real-time data is key.

Executive Overview

One way financial services firms can improve their operational efficiency is to revamp their data management infrastructure. Creating a central repository for data that is used by multiple applications can ensure data consistency and quality across the enterprise, ease integration bottlenecks, and lower the number of failed trades.However, different applications have different database usage patterns.

Executive Overview

In most organizations, events drive action. In financial services, for example, a stock dipping below a threshold price may trigger a sell order. In manufacturing, production may start when an order is received. In healthcare, an unusual increase in the number of patients registering in an emergency room could signal the start of a disease outbreak, calling for action on the part of medical staff and public health officials.

In all of these cases, a business process is started, stopped, or modified based on an event or series of events.

Introduction

Because of increasing business and governmental pressures to integrate their operations, the financial services industry is developing a number of standards for data exchange and other common functions. Standards such as XBRL, FpML, MDDL, RIXML, and FIXML are all specialized dialects of XML (Extensible Markup Language). Any financial services application with good support for XML will be able to communicate effectively using one or more of the emerging industry standards.

Efficient data exchange increases the need for fast, scalable data persistence.

Changes in reimbursement approaches in healthcare are unleashing unprecedented business forces in the industry. As a result, providers are consolidating into larger integrated delivery networks, hoping to achieve economies of scale and operating efficiency.

But it’s difficult to truly integrate organizations, and that’s particularly true when it comes to getting disparate information systems to work together. Overall, consolidation has become more difficult because providers now have a variety of IT systems in place.

Strategic Interoperability

Executive Overview

This white paper discusses the critical requirements for the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to share Service members’ medical records – including real-time access to a complete composite health record – and it proposes an immediate solution via implementation of a health informatics platform. This approach will provide significant and clearly visible results in a matter of months, while positioning the Departments for strategic improvements in the years ahead.

Introduction

As healthcare providers face increasing pressures to lower costs and reduce readmissions, they're rapidly shifting towards accountable?care organizations (ACOs) and other coordinated, quality-based reimbursement systems. However, most providers have historically?organized their data and workflows in ways that best fi t the fee-for-service payment model. Now that so many providers are sharing?risks and rewards, they must also share and coordinate information by adopting more streamlined health information technology?solutions.

Introduction

With the growing popularity of smart phones and tablet computers, consumers are coming to expect that software solutions will be presented as "apps" on their mobile devices. The challenge for most application developers is to find ways to make their existing solutions run on modern mobile platforms without incurring the delay and cost of a complete rewrite.

Introduction

To overcome the performance limitations of traditional relational databases, applications - ranging from those running on a single machine to large, interconnected grids - often use in-memory databases to accelerate data access. While in-memory databases and caching products increase throughput, they suffer from a number of limitations including lack of support for large data sets, excessive hardware requirements, and limits on scalability.

What is Integration

Integration of enterprise applications and data to simplify and automate business processes has become an important focus for many CIOs. It refers to both the tasks of integrating data and applications, as well as to software products that provide integration frameworks and associated tools. Integration enables the sharing of data and business functions across applications.Integration has become popular because most traditional enterprise applications were custom built to address a specific business need.

InterSystems encourages the adoption of a flexible, practical approach to application development, rather than strict adherence to one of the prevalent development theories. This paper offers advice based upon our experience. However needs, attitudes, and styles vary; we recommend that each programmer choose the development approach that works best for them. Caché supports a wide range of development methodologies, not just those recommended here.

Introduction

In healthcare, information accessibility can impact the outcome of a medical decision, or the success of a bundled payment initiative. To ensure that the right information is available at the right place and time, healthcare organizations typically have used HL7® interface engines to share data among clinical applications. But the demands on healthcare information technology are changing so rapidly that these simple engines are no longer sufficient.

Business Transformation for Application Providers

Introduction

InterSystems regards the enterprise service bus (ESB) as a business transformation engine for application providers.

Why the emphasis on transformation? For many application providers meeting today’s customer demands will require a change in business model. Customers are looking for unified solutions instead of application portfolios from vendors. They want these solutions delivered on their device of choice, from desktop to mobile. Above all, these solutions must be focused on the user experience.