With corporate offices located in Grand Rapids, and a footprint that covers the entire state of Michigan, USA, Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit system of care dedicated to improving the health of families and individuals. Recognised nationally as a leader in top-tier care delivery, Spectrum Health was named one of the nation's top 10 health system providers by Thomson Reuters in 2010.

All of the Web services-based data exchange, field mapping and transformations are delivered to the portal via Ensemble, which is used to integrate six disparate systems and multiple information repositories.

"MySpectrum is a patient-centric Web portal that combines patient and consumer functionality, allowing Spectrum Health to offer patients electronic access to their medical records," Kim Gordon, Integration Solutions Manager explained. "The portal is based on a patient-centric philosophy with Ensemble used to integrate data across the enterprise to ensure a seamless clinical experience for patients wherever they may access or receive services. With Ensemble, our solution also provides a dashboard and control mechanism for the HL7 integrations involved in MySpectrum. This makes it possible to monitor, stop, start, and visualise data as it flows to and from the portal."

Patients use the portal for pre-registering for treatment, requesting an appointment, paying bills, checking an outstanding balance, viewing test results and discharge summaries and receiving messages. The new smartphone app now makes it possible for mobile healthcare consumers to:

• View wait times at Spectrum Health's five urgent care centers
• Access lab test results and appointments securely through their MySpectrum Web site account
• Get phone numbers, addresses and maps for Spectrum Health locations
• Find a physician
• Check symptoms

"We view MySpectrum as a resource for valued health information that provides patients with the information they need when they must make informed health decisions," continued Gordon. "And, from a business perspective, MySpectrum will increase patient loyalty and grow market share."

"Ensemble provides the rich set of capabilities and solid development platform we need to orchestrate data from rapidly changing and expanding data repositories and to continue the evolution of MySpectrum in order to achieve Spectrum Health's goals for next-generation healthcare," Gordon stated.

"Spectrum Health's ability to leverage sophisticated technology for information delivery is a good illustration of the breakthrough solutions being delivered by the end-user organisations and application partners using our advanced technologies," said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems Vice President of Strategic Planning.

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InterSystems Corporation is the worldwide leader in software for connected healthcare. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 23 countries, InterSystems provides advanced software technologies for breakthrough applications. InterSystems Ensemble® is a seamless platform for integration and the development of connectable applications. InterSystems Caché® is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems HealthShare™ is a platform that enables the fastest creation of an Electronic Health Record for regional or national health information exchange. InterSystems DeepSee™ is software that makes it possible to embed real-time business intelligence in transactional applications. InterSystems TrakCare™ is a connected healthcare information system that is Web-based and rapidly delivers the benefits of an Electronic Patient Record.

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