Hospital Luton and Dunstable selects InterSystems Ensemble ® to integrate 50 critical applications.

Madrid, February 2010.- InterSystems Corporation has announced that Hospital Luton and Dunstable, belonging to the British public agency NHS Foundation Trust, is using InterSystems Ensemble ® for an extensive project to rationalise its it architecture and implement a strategic approach for the integration of applications. NHS Foundation Trust selected Ensemble rapid integration platform to implement SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and increase the flexibility of your service it. This strategy has allowed NHS Foundation Trust to transform its activity on the integration of applications into an opportunity for added value for the organization.

The project covers approximately 50 critical applications to access 3,000 users, including emergencies and accidents, patient management, pathology and observation electronics. The hospital intends to make important changes in its portfolio of applications, over the next few years, and hence which has been decided to ensure that it has the necessary flexibility in its systems you to manage this change without incidents in their services.

Use Ensemble-oriented SOA enables Luton and Dunstable to separate the functions of their applications between different services, which can be reused and combined in new ways. This gives the hospital a few services applications that are flexible and easy to adapt to the changing needs of users, reducing the costs of development and maintenance of new applications.

The Luton and Dunstable Hospital selected company Integrella Limited, Parner InterSystems Implementation, for implementation through architecture ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) suitable for the SOA approach. The project is a migration, in four phases, which will come into operation within 12 months. Marcus Davis, co-founder of Integrella, said have seen a common look and feel, in the departments of NHS Trust, to reduce dependence on manufacturers of integrated systems and increase the agility of the systems you. We are pleased to be able to help Luton and Dunstable implementing a framework for it, SOA-based ”.

Referring to the draft, Mark Englad, head of it for the Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust hospital, says that we are not unusual as an organization and our systems you have grown and evolved over the years to become a very complex environment. The mix of legacy systems and critical applications for patients means that we need an integration platform capable of helping us to create a flexible architecture that can be adapted, easily, to the nature of the changes that will be it for health in the future. ” addition, Mark adds that Ensemble works extremely well and we are delighted with the results obtained in the process of migration, up to this point. Knowledge of InterSystems, his experience and leadership in integration and, especially, interoperability based on standards based on HL7, make the company ideal for our needs ”.

Phil Birchall, of Development Director of Negocio Healtcare, of InterSystems, adds that Luton and Dunstable is a very important project for Integrella and for us. Shows how Ensemble provides a very flexible integration and capability the accumulated benefits to be gained ”.

About InterSystems

InterSystems Corporation is the world leader in software for the networked health. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 23 countries, InterSystems provides innovative products that enable the rapid development, deployment and integration of business applications.
InterSystems cache ® is a database of high-performance object-oriented that allows applications to be faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble ® is a platform for seamless integration and development of connected applications. InterSystems HealthShare ™ is a platform that enables the rapid creation of electronic medical history for the exchange of health information in health services regional or national. InterSystems DeepSee ™ is a software that makes it possible to embed, real-time Business Intelligence applications, favoring the decision-making process.

InterSystems is the No.1 in databases and applications for health integration technologies. InterSystems products are used in thousands of hospitals and laboratories, including 21 hospitals Honor Roll of America ’ s Best Hospitals, according to the classification of U.S. News & World Report.

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