TechSpring, the innovation center launched by Springfield, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health, has launched a software development environment built on top of the InterSystems HealthShare platform.
TechSpring partners with a variety of health IT vendors -- including Cerner, Imprivata, Medecision, NTT Data and Premier -- giving them HIPAA-compliant, real-life representative healthcare data to help them speed the development of data management, app connectivity and other tools.
Implemented with help from IT services company J2 Interactive, the new HealthShare-based environment will help those technology partners more "safely and securely develop and test technologies and analytics in a real-world healthcare environment to determine whether their solutions are likely to succeed in the market," said Joel Vengco, TechSpring founder and Baystate chief information officer, in a statement.
By enabling easy access to embedded analytics and standards-based interoperability tools (including FHIR capabilities, RESTful web services) HealthShare can help give TechSpring development partners more competitive advantage as they develop technologies to go to market, he said.
"We strongly support the efforts led by TechSpring to enable third-party application developers to leverage healthcare data," said InterSystems Director of Innovation Qi Li, MD, in a statement. "We’re encouraged to see the industry continuing to evolve towards data democratization so that advanced technology can help organizations transform healthcare."
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