Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Selects InterSystems CACHÉ Database

InterSystems Corp. has announced that Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) has selected the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database as the database for their laboratory billing system. PAML is the largest independent laboratory in the Northwest.

According to Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice president of strategic planning, there were three major factors in PAML's selection of CACHÉ. “As a medical customer, reliability and availability are very important to them so I think some of the high availability features of CACHÉ were key,” Grabscheid told DBTA. Second, he noted, “The performance and the ability to scale up as their business grows was important to them.” Additionally, Grabscheid stated, PAML has “some new development that they want to do so some of the flexibility and open capabilities were key for that.”

CACHÉ offers an open environment “so we can leverage technologies such as Java, .NET and Web services,” noted Mark Johnston, CIO, PAML, at the time of the announcement. He said the speed of CACHÉ was important to PAML's database technology selection. "We wanted to move forward as rapidly as possible with migrating the billing system to a new, high-performance platform that provides top-level MultiValue facilities," Johnston said.

InterSystems is a leading provider of innovative database and integration software. Its product line includes the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database, InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform, and InterSystems HealthShare platform for regional and national electronic health records. Headquartered in Spokane, WA, PAML delivers a wide range of testing services to thousands of physicians and more than 100 hospitals throughout a core market that includes Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, California, Utah, Wyoming and Alaska.

In addition to using the billing application internally for the testing services that it provides, PAML offers billing services to more than 20 medical laboratories, and expects that base to continue growing. CACHÉ offers the “high availability and massive scalability” needed to support PAML's end-users as well as the outside customer population while also providing a direct MultiValue migration path that minimizes the challenges of a legacy system migration, according to Johnston.

For more information about InterSystems, go here. For more about PAML, go here.