Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: How InterSystems Is Designing AI Infrastructure That Can Think, Act, and Endure in Healthcare

This IDC Market Perspective provides coverage of the InterSystems READY 2025 event held from June 22 to 25, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. It highlights InterSystems' commitment to AI across its products, emphasizing the shift toward AI as a foundational element in healthcare infrastructure. The event highlighted AI's role in enhancing data management, patient care, and operational efficiency, with a focus on trust, governance, and collaboration. Key insights included the importance of building resilient systems, fostering strategic partnerships, and ensuring the accountability and transparency of AI. The overarching message is the necessity of AI-driven infrastructure for future healthcare transformation."Forget the man behind the curtain; READY 2025 revealed that the true wizardry in healthcare AI won't come from platforms that merely have AI. Instead, the yellow brick road to transformative care will be led by platforms where AI is not an add-on but an infrastructure layer, governed, integrated, and built to act, like an Emerald City's core that can bring forth a new era of health," says Mutaz Shegewi, senior research director, Worldwide Healthcare Provider AI Platforms and Technologies.