InterSystems CEO Terry Ragon Provides Expert Testimony to U.S. Senate on Healthcare Information Technology; Recommends Affordable, Fast Path Strategy for Deployment of National Electronic Health Records.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- InterSystems Corporation today announced that president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon was called upon as an expert witness in health information technology to testify To provide evidence as a witness, subject to an oath or affirmation, in order to establish a particular fact or set of facts. Court rules require witnesses to testify about the facts they know that are relevant to the determination of the outcome of the case. before the U.S. Senate. The testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation took place on June 21. Ragon is the founder and CEO of InterSystems Corporation, a leading provider of database and integration software technologies. In written testimony, Ragon discussed the availability of new technology that makes it easier to introduce electronic patient records (EPRs) and to connect them in regional and national entities. He cited InterSystems technology implementation successes at the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. , Department of Defense and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. as clear examples that the choice of technology is critically important and that "evolution works better than revolution" in healthcare IT. Ragon also outlined a new vision for introducing EPRs in which the medical record application is built as a "composite application In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. " that communicates with already installed departmental systems, enabling organizations to avoid "rip and replace" of existing systems. Ragon further testified that, "This need for interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. within a hospital -- to share information among departments -- is strikingly similar to the emerging need to share information between organizations. The same technology we built for connecting an organization and supporting composite applications is also being used to link organizations into regional and national entities." Ragon pointed to the use of InterSystems' integration technology to implement a national electronic health record (EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND ) in the Netherlands as evidence that "the technology to achieve regional and national EHRs exists today." About InterSystems For over 25 years, InterSystems Corporation has been a technology innovation leader in database and integration software. The CACHE post-relational database and Ensemble rapid integration platform enable software developers in every industry sector to rapidly create, deploy and integrate high-performance applications. With world headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , InterSystems has offices in 20 countries and provides support to customers in 88 countries. For more information, visit www.InterSystems.com InterSystems is a leader in integration technology and the world's #1 database provider in healthcare, with its products used by most major hospitals and labs, including America's 10 best hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report. |
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