InterSystems IRIS for Health BYOL

What do you like best about the product?

I like the rapid time to market with InterSystems IRIS for Health. I also appreciate its stability, performance, and support. The initial setup was really easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't like how the configurations in InterSystems IRIS for Health are only local and not replicated across mirror members.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use InterSystems IRIS for Health for internal interoperability projects and solving communication with external solutions. It offers rapid time to market, and I appreciate its stability, performance, and support.

What do you like best about the product?

I love that with InterSystems IRIS for Health, I can build an HL7 connection and then take that data to load it into an application that I view on a website hosted in an IRIS web application, all in one tool. It's really beneficial that object-oriented programming, a data persistence layer, SQL projection, and interoperability are all rolled into one product, which particularly helps with the interoperability layer. Setting it up is fairly easy provided the server is correctly configured. Our organization has helped several other organizations switch from their legacy engines to IRIS for Health.

What do you dislike about the product?

Their AI tools are getting better every day but not quite there yet.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

InterSystems IRIS for Health integrates object-oriented programming, data persistence, SQL, and interoperability, helping us solve interoperability issues effectively.

What do you like best about the product?

Its flexibility and powerful interoperability capabilities, especially for integrating different healthcare systems and data formats.

What do you dislike about the product?

The learning curve can be a bit steep, especially for new developers, and some features could be more intuitive and easier to use.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes system integration and data exchange easier, reducing development effort and helping us deliver solutions faster.

What do you like best about the product?

There isn't anything that doesn't work well. The management portal is intuitive to use and allows you to easily monitor your productions. This helps to ensure successful integration between different systems.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the documentation for methods is lacking in explanation of what they do, so you may have to read the underlying code. This can sometimes be quite difficult if the code uses a lot of abbreviations.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows for rapid successful data flow between multiple Healthcare systems. This reduces the time doctors need to take to receive information, which means they can spend more time caring for their patients.

What do you like best about the product?

I really appreciate the 'easy to use' aspect of InterSystems IRIS for Health. I like the ability to process and route HL7 messages efficiently. Although it's initially a bit tricky to find everything, over time all the functions and features become easier to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

Even though it's tough and robust, I think the UI could be a little more simple. Maybe to be more 'Modern' designed, and better readability. At first it's a bit difficult to understand where everything is located, but with the right time, all the functions and features it gets easier.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

InterSystems IRIS for Health solves major interoperability and data management problems, making these tasks less complex and time-consuming.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about IRIS for Health is its powerful interoperability capabilities and high performance. It provides a unified data platform that simplifies integration between healthcare systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and strong security.

What do you dislike about the product?

The platform has a steep learning curve, especially for teams new to the InterSystems ecosystem. Initial setup and configuration can require significant expertise.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

InterSystems IRIS for Health helps us solve interoperability challenges by seamlessly integrating data from multiple healthcare systems and formats (HL7, FHIR, etc.). As a result, we can deliver more reliable solutions faster while maintaining compliance and security standards.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about InterSystems IRIS for Health is how it brings data integration, interoperability, and analytics together in one platform. It makes working with healthcare standards like FHIR and HL7 much easier while still being fast and scalable. I also appreciate the built-in tools for real-time data processing, which reduce complexity and speed up development.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing I dislike about IRIS for Health is the learning curve, especially for developers who are new to the InterSystems ecosystem or to ObjectScript. Some concepts and tooling feel quite different from more mainstream stacks, which can slow onboarding. I also find that documentation can be fragmented, making it harder to quickly find practical, end-to-end examples.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

InterSystems IRIS for Health is solving the problem of healthcare data silos and complex interoperability. Healthcare data comes from many systems, formats, and standards, and IRIS for Health provides a single platform to ingest, normalize, route, and store that data using standards like HL7 and FHIR.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the ability to quickly manage data formats like HL7 or FHIR in the healthcare world and also to support other more common types of integration like SOAP or REST. It is particularly simple to manage and quickly create REST through the platform and its management portal. I also greatly appreciate the database capabilities, in fact, it is not just an enterprise service bus but also a database management system. The InterSystems IRIS for Health database is very efficient thanks to the use of globals, the data format in which everything is saved in the IRIS DB.

What do you dislike about the product?

I believe that in general the documentation is somewhat lacking regarding the InterSystems world, although they have been improving a lot on this point lately. What can certainly be improved is the user interface, which seems a bit outdated. Moreover, there are many functions available today but not much utilized by users, such as the entire business intelligence sector or that of machine learning and embedding vectors.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

With InterSystems IRIS for Health, it is very simple to create highly performant and fast-to-develop HL7 or FHIR integrations, thanks to the use of native classes developed specifically to handle data types in HL7 or FHIR formats. Additionally, it is very simple to create REST integrations. I also greatly appreciate the efficient database in data management, which recently also supports embedding vectors.

What do you like best about the product?

I'm surprised to say, the Ensemble (now Integration) Productions. When I first started learning about them, I thought they would either be 1) hard to use or 2) very slow performing due to the fact they use a browser-based GUI setup system instead of code. Now that I've used them quite a bit, I find them an indispensable tool for my job, and they've solved several long-lived issues.

What do you dislike about the product?

Licensing and cost-of-entry. InterSystems has (if you can find it) an installer for Raspberry Pi hardware which actually performs quite well on these tiny little computers. I would love to be able to purchase a personal license for the technology as I have several projects around the house that would be much easier to implement using this technology instead of having to "roll my own." I've asked many times how to purchase a valid single-user license, and I've never received a response. There's millions of Raspberry Pis across the globe, it would be phenomenal (IMHO) to have a tool like this available on a small but very capable computer.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has solved several data collection and data gateway problems that previously used external (and ancient) tools to accomplish. It was nice to be able to bring that functionality back under the InterSystems technology to make improvements and maintenance of our systems easier.

What do you like best about the product?

Very easy to use, very intuitive, and has great support from a developer community that makes projects much easier.

What do you dislike about the product?

Although many automated processes do not require extensive knowledge, the security configuration is quite complicated.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Integration with third parties is very simple, and large operations can be carried out with minimal development time. We have integrated 20 laboratories, securely storing analytical results and ensuring their confidentiality.