A Great Interoperability Tool
August 03, 2023
A Great Interoperability Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with InterSystems IRIS
We use InterSystems Iris and HealthConnect as our intergration engine between our EMR & our vendor systems. It allows us to take in millions of HL7 messages, translate those messages according to the needs of our company & vendors and send them on to their destinations within seconds. It also works for HL7v3, X12, and API (FHIR/Json) data.
- It is very intuitive--navigation and understanding of the tool comes quickly
- It is very flexible so you can easily customize it to operate in such a way that it fulfills your needs.
- It is constantly expanding it's out of the box capabilities to provide more ease & access to different utilities.
- The base code is in ObjectScript which can be quite the learning curve for individuals just starting out with the product.
- The documentation is not always clear about how or what classes and built in functions are available for use.
- The ability to quickly view what systems are having issues.
- An intuitive GUI that makes different aspects of my role more efficient.
- The WRC--a 24/7 support line that offers expert advice to help you get over development hurdles.
- It has improved our development speed so we are able to produce more quickly.
- It has offered the ability to provide more customized solutions in comparison to what we were using allowing us to offer a greater range of solutions.
- Custom processes are typically written in the InterSystems Development Language which does take some time to learn but it does follow standard syntax and logic.
- Source Control is not standard out of the box and it does take some work to get it implemented though this process is improving.
Tibco was not originally planned to be used for HL7 Integrations and as such we had to create some very complicated processes in order for the messages to parse and validate appropriately. It was simply not built for this type of interoperability. Comparatively, InterSystems IRIS for Health (HealthConnect) has out of the box HL7 features that would parse messages, offer a variety of validation options, simplified data lookups and transformation and reduced the amount of time it took to develop connections with out vendor systems. InterSystems IRIS also allows one to push just single files into production at a time so there is less of a chance of us pushing something that should not be in production yet as our previous system was set up to with TIBCO deployments.
Do you think InterSystems IRIS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with InterSystems IRIS's feature set?
Yes
Did InterSystems IRIS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of InterSystems IRIS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy InterSystems IRIS again?
Yes