Cerner vs InterSystems

Cerner Corporation is a supplier of health information technology solutions, services, devices and hardware. As of April 2015 its products were in use in approximately 18,000 facilities around the world Cerner was founded in 1979 by Neal Patterson, Paul Gorup, and Cliff Illig, who were colleagues at Arthur Andersen. Its original name was PGI & Associates but was renamed Cerner in 1984 when it rolled out its first system, PathNet.

InterSystems Corporation is a privately held vendor of software systems and technology for high-performance database management, rapid application development, integration, and healthcare information systems. The vendor's products are the InterSystems Cach DBMS and application development environment, the Ensemble integration platform, DeepSee embedded real-time business intelligence, and the HealthShare healthcare informatics platform. InterSystems also sells the TrakCare healthcare information system outside the United States.