FCG India has entered a strategic partnership with InterSystems Corporation, the Massachusetts-based global software provider, to provide integration and business process management (BPM) solutions to hospitals, public and research health networks in India. FCG India, a leading software services and healthcare IT company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of First Consulting Group (FCG). This alliance enables FCG to renew its focus on the Indian healthcare IT market.

FCG will provide systems integration and implementation on InterSystems platforms. The goal of FCG and InterSystems is to integrate billing, radiology, pharmacy, lab systems, PACS, dietary, dictation, and effective interfaces and reports for healthcare management.

"This partnership allows us to enhance our healthcare IT service offering," said Vadeesh Budramane, VP & chief operating officer, FCG India. "FCG and InterSystems will offer leading data platforms with expert healthcare implementation and integration services to offer hospitals a total solution," he said.

The Indian healthcare industry will benefit from the services provided by this partnership, which will include business process automation, health delivery network integration, and electronic health records.

"InterSystems appreciate the opportunity to team with an industry leader such as FCG," said Sameer Vatsa, Country Manager of InterSystems India. "FCG India is a valuable systems integration and implementation partner that will allow us to deploy effective software solutions to help streamline care in India, he said."

InterSystems will deploy Ensemble, an application integration platform, and Cache, a high-performance object database that runs SQL five times faster than relational databases. FCG will leverage these and other technologies from InterSystems while providing solutions to clients.

FCG India is an SEI CMMI Level 5 & ISO 27001 compliant IT company providing services with focus on healthcare (health plans& health delivery), Life Sciences, Independent Software Vendors (ISV) & Software Services for organizations in North America, Europe & Asia.