Persistent Systems and Partners HealthCare, founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, announced today a strategic collaboration to develop a new industry-wide open-source platform with the goal of bringing digital transformation to clinical care.

Persistent will help the digital transformation of clinical care at Partners and, together with Partners, develop an open-source platform to lower the barriers for knowledge exchange across health care providers and enable a new generation of decision support apps in the clinical environment.
 
This four-year collaboration will bring together the world class clinicians and researchers at Partners HealthCare with Persistent's innovative healthcare technology and product engineering expertise.
 
The co-developed digital platform will be based on Substitutable Medical Applications & Reusable Technologies (SMART), an open, standards-based technology platform along with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). The platform will enable provider systems across the country to rapidly and cost effectively deploy industry-leading best practices in clinical care across their ecosystems.
 
''The collaboration serves as a powerful example of how healthcare visionaries and leaders in technology can create positive disruption. By combining forces with Partners HealthCare to design this platform, we're striving to bring continuous transformation of the healthcare experience. We're confident this is just the start,'' said Sudhir Kulkarni, President of Digital at Persistent Systems.

Shares of the company gained Rs 3.2, or 0.56%, to trade at Rs 571.00. The total volume of shares traded was 4,032 at the BSE (9.37 a.m., Wednesday).