The association between Cache (and similar technologies) and healthcare systems goes back many years. Vendors such as InterSystems can rightly be proud of the long line of successful systems that their products have supported. However, the market place in this sector is aggressive and becoming increasingly so. Are the traditional strengths of Cache still relevant today? What key benefits can Cache bring to the table?

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Cache is a high performance database. But then, a modest investment in extra hardware can make an 'inferior' database perform as well as a 'superior' one. Cache allows you to develop applications quickly. But don't all modern application development environments allow you to do just that? Applications developed using Cache perform and scale extremely well. And, of course, vendors of other technologies make the same claim.

Users of Cache will know that these statements are 'more true' for Cache than for other competing technologies but is being 'better at the same game' enough, for example, to motivate users of other technologies to migrate to Cache? Or are there areas where Cache can offer solutions and advantages that are genuinely not available elsewhere?

In this presentation we will discuss how Cache and related products are being successfully used at the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) and identify at least two areas where we believe these technologies offer distinct advantages over their immediate competitors.

We will also discuss how the InterSystems family of products are helping the RMH to meet the challenges created by the National Health Services National Program for IT (NPfIT).