InterSystems, Virtusa partner on patient data integration, analytics

InterSystems has announced a partnership with digital engineering specialist Virtusa to enhance the healthcare data integration capabilities of Virtusa’s vLife life sciences platform. The vLife cloud-based platform consists of a comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant data lake with multiple data sources, in addition to pre-built APIs and artificial intelligence and machine learning models. Through interoperability and integration with InterSystems’ IRIS for Health Data Platform, Virtusa consumers will have broader access to patient data from electronic health record systems and other clinical applications. Improved analytics across the life sciences and healthcare industries has enormous potential to drive positive patient outcomes while reducing cost, with similar benefits for research and healthcare data management in general. Virtusa data APIs, aimed at the life sciences industry, consist of academic and research data for EHRs, claims, clinical trials, devices and sensors, and DNA banks. The vLife platform also boasts predictive tools with the capability to analyze more than one billion rows of public, synthetic or acquired data, and is HIPAA-compliant and recently attained HITRUST CSF Certified status.