InterSystems
Corporation today announced that Goold Health Systems (GHS) is rolling out its core processing application on the InterSystems
CACHÉ
® high-performance object database platform. The rollout began after successfully completing an in-depth proof-of-concept (POC) project where "CACHÉ
immediately stood out from all of the other competitors," said Jason Skeffington, Director, MIS.
The global leader in software for connected healthcare, InterSystems
develops innovative database, integration, and business intelligence products. Known worldwide as a highly scalable object database for transactional systems, CACHÉ
handles SQL queries faster than relational databases and enables rapid Web application development.
Headquartered in Augusta, Maine, GHS is a healthcare management company focusing on State Medicaid services. GHS is a health care management company that specializes in providing pharmacy benefit services, clinical services and business process outsourcing services to State Medicaid agencies, non-profit clients and private sector clients.
Starting From a Clean Slate
Migrating to CACHÉ
was the result of an IT strategy based on the long-term future of GHS. "As we looked to the future, we realized that the legacy platform on which we run our software would not serve our mid-term and long-term strategic IT vision," said Skeffington. "On the back-end, for example, we had growing demands for more robust disaster recovery and scalability. It was clear that the legacy platform could not fulfill our expanding requirements," he said. "We considered virtually every possible alternative, including outsourcing our development and evaluating shrink-wrapped applications, as well as new database platforms for our core processor," he continued. Once the decision was made to stay with GHS' own software running on a MultiValue environment, the next step called for in-depth evaluation and comparison of multiple DBMS platforms.
"We designed and implemented a very careful and rigorous POC to test product capabilities and limits and CACHÉ
immediately stood out from the competition," according to Skeffington. "InterSystems
CACHÉ
has other DBMS products beat by light years. The company is delivering technology innovations that their competitors haven't even thought about yet. And CACHÉ
has made it possible to move to an object database environment without having to rewrite our MultiValue applications."
The smooth interoperability, massive scalability, and high performance provided by CACHÉ
are technology hot buttons for the IT staff at GHS. "The fact that development can be done with either a relational or an object-oriented approach offers flexibility that is key to our future plans," Skeffington noted.
"Our first CACHÉ
-based implementation was the result of a contract for a state Medicaid Pharmacy Project in Wyoming," Skeffington said. "The algorithms for this project are more consistently complex than many we've had to write. Even with that level of complexity, the performance of CACHÉ
has been outstanding." The system went live and the customer is completely satisfied with the system speed and performance, according to Skeffington, who said that GHS is now migrating other pharmacy customer systems to the CACHÉ
platform on an aggressive schedule.
"It's great to have the opportunity to partner with GHS as they move to a database that supports their leadership position in the specialized and complex Medicaid management segment of the healthcare technology industry," said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems
Vice President of Strategic Planning. "We are committed to providing the rich features, high performance and enterprise scalability they require for ongoing growth in this intensely competitive market sector."
InterSystems CACHE' is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble® is a seamless platform for integration and the development of connectable applications. 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 capabilities in transactional applications. InterSystems TrakCare™ is a Web-based healthcare information system that rapidly delivers the benefits of an Electronic Patient Record. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.
InterSystems has enhanced the Caché database with MultiValue
data access. Caché natively supports MultiValue data files and
dictionaries, a MultiValue query language, MultiValue Basic,
PROCs, and more.
Not only do MultiValue applications run on Caché, but the skills
that built those applications can be used throughout the InterSystems
technology stack. MultiValue developers can take advantage of: