IBM and business partner Mainsoft are working together to ensure interoperability between proprietary and open standards-based software systems, which can help healthcare providers to better integrate patient records and deliver healthcare information.

Larry Bowden, vice president of portals and web interaction services at IBM, said: IBM WebSphere Portal is trusted by the world’s leading healthcare organizations because of the secure and personalized experience that has been delivered reliably to many millions of users. WebSphere portal makes it easy to integrate existing software assets, web 2.0, and SOA features and now with Mainsoft’s .NET Extensions; customers can easily leverage any existing .NET development skills and applications.