Mass General Brigham

Mass General Brigham, formerly Partners HealthCare, is a Boston-based nonprofit academic medical system that includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital — two of the most respected teaching institutions in the country.

To support coordinated care across its vast network of imaging centers, Mass General Brigham has relied on Iguana as its integration engine since 2002. Iguana plays a central role in streamlining the flow of patient demographics, lab orders, and results, ensuring clinical data is delivered accurately and efficiently between systems.

Over the years, Iguana has helped standardize the exchange of HL7 messages (such as admission, update, order, and result types) across facilities. Incoming messages are transported via LLP and are either written directly to SQL Server databases or transformed through Iguana's Translator before being routed onward. This flexible architecture has made it easy to adapt to new workflows without needing to overhaul core infrastructure.

In 2020, Brigham and Women's Hospital undertook a successful migration of 15 legacy interfaces from Siemens Medicalis Intelligo and Ensemble to their existing Iguana environment. This project demonstrated Iguana's ability to absorb legacy systems, simplify maintenance, and unify integration strategy — ultimately reducing system complexity and long-term IT overhead.

With two decades of proven performance, Iguana continues to support Mass General Brigham's mission to improve patient outcomes by enabling timely, secure, and reliable exchange of healthcare information across its academic medical network.