About Us
Known for its innovation when it was formed more than 30 years ago, London-based Misys plc was the first software company listed on the FTSE 100. However, through a number of acquisitions and mergers over the years, the company had begun to lose its identity as an innovator. That was until Mike Lawrie, a key investor for Value Act Capital with rich experience in running much of the IBM business worldwide as one of its senior vice presidents, identified great potential in the Misys banking, treasury capital market, and healthcare businesses. After taking over the reigns as Misys’ CEO in November 2006, Mr. Lawrie immediately made dramatic management changes, and in the first quarter of 2007 created the Misys Open Source (MOSS) Division, headed by a former IBM executive, Bob Barthelmes.
By July of that year, an announcement by Mr. Lawrie was picked up by The London Daily Telegraph in an article titled “Misys Gambles on the Open Source Revolution,” and the company’s intentions became formally known. These included both the creation of an open source carbon trading platform and an open source interoperability platform for healthcare.
MOSS released its first code to the open source community on February 8, 2008, and received positive reinforcement after some initial missteps. In support of its strategy to create an open source community that would build the core server-based IHE profiles necessary to run a health information exchange (HIE), MOSS began to build out and release the server profiles beginning in February 26, 2009 at IHE Connectathon, when MOSS released its version of the first open source IHE Patient Identifier Cross-Reference and Patient Demographics Query (OpenPIXPDQ Project) profile. Since then, MOSS has led its open source community to build additional IHE components, which are detailed in the technical sections of this web site.
On July 21, 2009, MOSS announced its initial major engagement: to build the nation’s first state-wide open source HIE in Connecticut. The project includes MOSS Governance Consulting and implementation of both the Misys Connect Exchange and Misys Connect Portal.
For Misys plc, the open source solutions group represents disruptive innovation—both inside Misys and throughout the proprietary software-led healthcare industry. MOSS takes pride in attempting to break the old way of doing business. We are living the Innovator’s Solution and are looking to work with other enlightened partners to change the way healthcare is delivered throughout the world. We get up every day to find better solutions for our customers, and are having fun doing it.
