Northwell Health + InterSystems Northwell Health Leverages a Billion Data Points for Innovations in Care and Care Coordination Northwell Health, based on Long Island, New York, is one of the largest private health systems in the United States. Its growth has been simplified by leadership’s decision to avoid the disruptions of “ripping and replacing” the different EMRs used by acquired organizations. Instead, Northwell uses InterSystems HealthShare® to aggregate, integrate, store, and use information from the disparate EMRs and other clinical systems across its 23 hospitals, 655 outpatient facilities and more than 18,500 affiliated physicians. Using HealthShare’s unified health record, Northwell now has at its disposal a healthcare database holding over 1 billion data points.

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