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Reliable Backend for Complex Healthcare Workflows
What do you like best about the product?
I use IRIS for Health almost every day, and what I like most is how much it simplifies working with healthcare data. Things like HL7 and FHIR, which are usually a headache to deal with, are much easier here because the platform handles a lot of the heavy lifting.
It’s also great that everything you need is in one place — database, integration engine, message routing, and even analytics. Once you're familiar with the environment, it’s pretty straightforward to implement solutions. This really speeds up development and reduces back-and-forth between systems.
The customer support from InterSystems is generally responsive and helpful, especially when it comes to urgent production issues. They do take healthcare seriously, so you usually get solid answers.
For more technical or niche problems, the turnaround time can vary, and sometimes it feels like you’re waiting on engineering or digging through documentation yourself. There’s not as much community content or Stack Overflow presence compared to other platforms, so you're mostly relying on official channels. It would be great to see more real-world examples and quicker resolution on complex tickets.
It’s also great that everything you need is in one place — database, integration engine, message routing, and even analytics. Once you're familiar with the environment, it’s pretty straightforward to implement solutions. This really speeds up development and reduces back-and-forth between systems.
The customer support from InterSystems is generally responsive and helpful, especially when it comes to urgent production issues. They do take healthcare seriously, so you usually get solid answers.
For more technical or niche problems, the turnaround time can vary, and sometimes it feels like you’re waiting on engineering or digging through documentation yourself. There’s not as much community content or Stack Overflow presence compared to other platforms, so you're mostly relying on official channels. It would be great to see more real-world examples and quicker resolution on complex tickets.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside is the learning curve. If you’re new to IRIS or ObjectScript, it can feel unfamiliar and a bit old-school compared to more widely-used languages like Python or JavaScript. It takes time to get comfortable.
Setting up your first few productions or integrations can feel a bit overwhelming without the right guidance. Also, since it’s a licensed product, cost and access can be a concern — especially for smaller teams or if you're trying to build a quick prototype. More beginner-friendly examples and community support would really help ease adoption.
for more technical or niche problems, the turnaround time can vary, and sometimes it feels like you’re waiting on engineering or digging through documentation yourself. There’s not as much community content or Stack Overflow presence compared to other platforms, so you're mostly relying on official channels. It would be great to see more real-world examples and quicker resolution on complex tickets.
The built-in tools for message routing, transformations, and monitoring are very handy. You don’t need to use separate software for each function — it’s all there in one place. That said, the initial learning curve can slow you down a bit if you're new to the InterSystems way of doing things, but once you’re used to it, integration work becomes pretty smooth and repeatable.
Setting up your first few productions or integrations can feel a bit overwhelming without the right guidance. Also, since it’s a licensed product, cost and access can be a concern — especially for smaller teams or if you're trying to build a quick prototype. More beginner-friendly examples and community support would really help ease adoption.
for more technical or niche problems, the turnaround time can vary, and sometimes it feels like you’re waiting on engineering or digging through documentation yourself. There’s not as much community content or Stack Overflow presence compared to other platforms, so you're mostly relying on official channels. It would be great to see more real-world examples and quicker resolution on complex tickets.
The built-in tools for message routing, transformations, and monitoring are very handy. You don’t need to use separate software for each function — it’s all there in one place. That said, the initial learning curve can slow you down a bit if you're new to the InterSystems way of doing things, but once you’re used to it, integration work becomes pretty smooth and repeatable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
InterSystems IRIS for Health is solving one of the biggest challenges in healthcare IT — integrating multiple systems that all speak different data formats and protocols like HL7, FHIR, JSON, and XML. In a typical hospital environment, there are many moving parts: lab systems, electronic medical records (EMRs), pharmacy systems, radiology modules, and more. Each of these systems may use different standards or interfaces, making communication between them complex and time-consuming to manage.
IRIS for Health simplifies this by providing a unified platform with built-in capabilities for parsing, transforming, and routing healthcare messages. Instead of spending hours writing custom code or managing multiple third-party tools, we can quickly set up and maintain interfaces directly within IRIS. This reduces development overhead and increases consistency across systems.
Another major benefit is how IRIS centralizes our workflows. Traditionally, we’d rely on separate tools for database management, integration, scripting, and monitoring — but IRIS brings all of these into one environment. This not only streamlines our architecture but also improves traceability, troubleshooting, and overall system reliability.
From a productivity standpoint, it’s made a big difference. Tasks that used to take days can now be completed in hours, and the risk of human error is significantly lower. It’s also easier to scale and maintain over time. Overall, IRIS for Health enhances both the performance of our integrations and the efficiency of our development team.
IRIS for Health simplifies this by providing a unified platform with built-in capabilities for parsing, transforming, and routing healthcare messages. Instead of spending hours writing custom code or managing multiple third-party tools, we can quickly set up and maintain interfaces directly within IRIS. This reduces development overhead and increases consistency across systems.
Another major benefit is how IRIS centralizes our workflows. Traditionally, we’d rely on separate tools for database management, integration, scripting, and monitoring — but IRIS brings all of these into one environment. This not only streamlines our architecture but also improves traceability, troubleshooting, and overall system reliability.
From a productivity standpoint, it’s made a big difference. Tasks that used to take days can now be completed in hours, and the risk of human error is significantly lower. It’s also easier to scale and maintain over time. Overall, IRIS for Health enhances both the performance of our integrations and the efficiency of our development team.
Lab systems, EHRs, imaging they rarely speak the same language.
What do you like best about the product?
If you’ve ever worked in healthcare IT, you know how messy and fragmented data can be. Getting different systems to talk to each other lab systems, EHRs, imaging platforms can feel like trying to get a group of people who speak different languages to sing in harmony. That’s where InterSystems IRIS for Health steps in. This platform was built with healthcare in mind. It’s not a general-purpose tool trying to wedge its way into the industry. IRIS for Health is specifically designed to handle the complex world of clinical data, and it does it well assuming you’re ready for a bit of a learning curve. It is Fast and Scalable. FHIR Made (Relatively) Easy. Data analytics is also very easy here as the data is stored in a very structured manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Enterprise-Level Pricing.
2. Smaller Developer Community
2. Smaller Developer Community
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is no specific business related problems when it comes to IRIS for Health. It is just that the developer community is quite small and requires a lot of research for bug fixes.
Excellent products that continue to grow
What do you like best about the product?
Intersystems provides a robust solution for the industry. There's lots of information, documentation, videos, and online learning to discover everything there is about each of their products.
All of their products can be set up to work right out of the box, and customization is available to meet anyone's business needs.
Their WRC and technical support are thoroughly knowledgeable and quick to respond.
All of their products can be set up to work right out of the box, and customization is available to meet anyone's business needs.
Their WRC and technical support are thoroughly knowledgeable and quick to respond.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the naming conventions cam be confusing, but do not let that stop you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating disparate systems into one cohesive supportable platform. As a long time consultant to the Veterans Adminsitration, IRIS for Health has addressed some of the long standing challenges of working across the largest health care enterprise in the country.
InterSystems is a true partner
What do you like best about the product?
Everyone we work with at InterSystems is both knowledgeable and helpful. Even if they don't know the answer to a question, they are more than happy to pull in the right resources to help answer your question. This has made our initial setup of IRIS and our cutover with currently integrated customers a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Every so often, we are surprised with some of the issues we run into. As an example, we've had quite a few issues setting up Source Control. Throughout that time, InterSystems has been more than happy to meet with us and work through the issues, but it was a little surprising that we were the first group to encounter some of the issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IRIS is helping us scale. We are switching from Mirth to IRIS to provide a better platform for our team to work from and make it simpler to integrate with other organizations.
The Only Real Solution for EHR Interoperability
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that we can develop scripts within IRIS for Health to customize and further automate our ETL process to integrate EHR data from disparate sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a naive user, I struggled to learn the platform quickly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Modern Trials needs to search for patients who meet specific clinical trial eligibility criteria (sometimes 50 or more) from EHR data. This data comes from many different healthcare organizations which means it comes in different formats and structures, and uses different standards, units, conventions and terms. However, for that data to be useful, it must be all made completely uniform. This monumental task is a major challenge when trying to utilize health records from different sources, particularly at scale with millions of records.
Database and integration platform for Healthcare Data Exchange
What do you like best about the product?
By implementing InterSystems IRIS for Health, YCare achieved rapid and efficient database management alongside FHIR-based healthcare data exchange, all within a single package. This significantly enhanced our efforts toward achieving interoperability and integration with multiple EHR systems. Additionally, the platform is optimized for AI applications, including advanced RUG and vector search functionalities.
What do you dislike about the product?
InterSystems IRIS for Health does not fully support the convergence of all modern data frameworks. As a result, we had to re-engineer certain subsystems to ensure full compatibility with the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are partnering with the University of Florida Healthcare's Cardiology Department on a medical trial to monitor patients with LVAD devices post-surgery. To conduct the trial over a six-month period, we require seamless data exchange integration with UF Health's EPIC EHR system. We are collaborating with InterSystems engineers to establish bi-directional integration between EPIC and the YCare Digital Health Platform, ensuring smooth and efficient data flow.
Excellent tool for serious data handling.
What do you like best about the product?
We liked the scalability and versatality that is provided by platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being startup and with very limited bandwidth that we've, we found this solution to be little more resources intensive. But again we're startup, for most of organization of mid-large size this will never be an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its' helping in solving informatin exchange which is biggest hurdle for us.
Quick launch with HIE suite and FHIR DB
What do you like best about the product?
We use Healthshare Health Connect and FHIR DB as building blocks for our solution for cross-organizational booking platform for clinics in Israel. What our CTO really liked is the out-of-the-box solution for most of our architectural challenges:
1. Integration suite with EMR
2. Visual integration builder with a mix of format and dynamic fields mapping: HL7v3, C/CDA, FHIR, free text
3. Ready-to-go FHIR DB
1. Integration suite with EMR
2. Visual integration builder with a mix of format and dynamic fields mapping: HL7v3, C/CDA, FHIR, free text
3. Ready-to-go FHIR DB
What do you dislike about the product?
As complex product it definitely has its learning curve, but I believe its unevitable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had to integrate with various proprietary EMRs to create "medical booking showcase".
We use :
1. Healthshare Health Connect as Integration suite with EMR
2. FHIR DB as an additional cache for FHIR resources for bookings
3. Soon - fully-featured HIE
We use :
1. Healthshare Health Connect as Integration suite with EMR
2. FHIR DB as an additional cache for FHIR resources for bookings
3. Soon - fully-featured HIE
Simple integration with medical organizations
What do you like best about the product?
Using IRIS for Health allows for easy integration with most laboratories and medical institutions, facilitating secure data transfer. When our partners and potential clients learn that we use IRIS for Health, it significantly boosts their trust in us and greatly increases the likelihood of starting a partnership. Additionally, the IRIS for Health support team provides excellent consultation quality. Currently, we have been using IRIS for Health for a year and have no complaints.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficulties in initial circuit design require the hiring of additional staff, as our developers are unable to cope on their own.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IRIS for Health ensures maximally convenient integration of our product with medical organizations, receiving and transforming data into a format that is convenient for us and our partners.
IRIS for Health automates integration with Hospital Information Systems
What do you like best about the product?
IRIS for health easily automates integration workflows with Hospital Information Systems
What do you dislike about the product?
Still some chief Information Officers in Spain are not familiar with IRIS for Health, but this is changing rapidly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IRIS for Health allow us to be interoperable with any Hospital Information System
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