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What is Iguana?

Iguana, iNTERFACEWARE's development-based integration platform, is the only tool you need to build fully custom interfaces, quickly and reliably. Iguana's environment-agnostic platform offers a robust and reliable platform to connect everything from EMRs and EHRs to your entire healthcare ecosystem. Connect all message formats: HL7, FHIR, X12, JSON and more. Iguana is the world's most trusted integration engine with over two decades in the business and thousands of installs globally. So get started today and Connect any System right away!

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Iguana has everything you need to build, test, monitor and troubleshoot any healthcare interface - all in a single platform.


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Year Founded
1997
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Toronto, Canada
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Recent Iguana Reviews

Rich M.
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Rich M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Solid product that is very helpful for data integrations both on-premise and cloud-based"
Iguana is easy to use and has great tools for analysis, evaluation, troubleshooting, etc. It is hosted by the company using it, which enables both...
Tarmo H.
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Tarmo H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Using Iguana with router and mapper between APIs"
Reliable HL7 2.x message delivery and easy routing.
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5.0 out of 5
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Ease of Implementation. install was simple and the tutorials for learning were very helpful.
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Iguana Demo - Dashboard by Iguana X
Connect ANY System, ANY Protocol, with ANY Data Format.
Iguana Demo - Dashboard by Iguana X
Create, control, and monitor your interfaces while also having at-a-glance insight into the health and status of your interfaces and servers.
Iguana Demo - Translator by Iguana X
The Translator, Iguana's patented development environment, offers a unique real-time, test-driven development process. By writing custom scripts in Lua, you can precisely control how to format your data, ensuring compatibility with any system you need to connect to, featuring autocompletion. ...
Iguana Demo - Logs by Iguana X
Iguana's Logs offer a quick and easy way to identify errors, troubleshoot performance issues, and modify and resubmit messages directly in Iguana.
Iguana Demo - History by Iguana X
Iguana's History offers an overview of all configuration changes made in Iguana. Should any user make a configuration change that introduces an error or needs to be undone, you can easily revert the Iguana configurations to a previous commit/state.
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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Iguana?

It is very easy to use. I have used Iguana for years and have rarely had to contact support. The times I have, they have been very helpful and resolved my issues quickly. Each new upgrade has only improved the usability and function of Iguana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

One of the downsides of Iguana is the way it stores logs. At least in my scenario, it will fill a log drive quickly and I have to maintain a smaller number of days in my history. I have had to create a secondary database to store the log files for future reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Iguana allows us to communicate with our clients via HL7 and transmit orders, demographics and reports between our systems and theirs. They send us orders to our workflow management and dictation systems and we send reports back to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rich M.
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Director of Technology & 3rd Party Integration
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What do you like best about Iguana?

Iguana is easy to use and has great tools for analysis, evaluation, troubleshooting, etc.

It is hosted by the company using it, which enables both on-premise and cloud-based implementations. This is very powerful, especially for outside US implementations and minimizing regulatory and data privacy/protection requirement challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

Would like to have more FHIR support and tools. Would also like the ability for Interfaceware to provide more Services. For example, to help offset company resources and enhance expertise, especially regarding EHR integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplifying and expediting data integrations. Enables our company to be more agile and support more integrations. Also enables us to test and debug faster than was traditionally possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

The Iguana interface engine is powerful in its simplicity to provide data integration between our EMR and pharmacies, labs, clearinghouses, etc. One of the most appealing features is the ease of starting and stopping channels and the ability to review errors in a human-readable format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

I am not a Developer nor a "subject matter expert" on Iguana, so it is difficult to answer this question. If anything, I would like to know if there is a way to identify which other channels or instances uses a particular shared lua. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Iguana is helping us integrate our EMR product with countless interfaces. These integrations allow our customers to process thousands of HL7 messages daily without the downtime observed using other integration engines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

Reusable integration code with endpoints for https / llp / sftp and file manipulation.

Many pre-existing modules for a wide range of existing interface specifications. JSON/XML/HL7 V2/HL7 V3 (CCS) / FHIR Client APIs / http post and get libraries for any restful web services.

Integrations that can be coded once and deployed to a number of agencies with only configuration changes that drive each customer's customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

Alerts on errors and no standard scheduler controller to cause integrations to run at specific times. However, we coded one ourselves in an iguana channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reusable code with repeatable deploy processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

Iguana is stable, reliable, powerful, logical, linear, and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

The only downside I can think of is that Iguana isn't as "well known" as some other products and to the extent that it can become a barrier for people who are skeptical of integrating with Iguana (favoring more "well known" products like Mulesoft) and despite whatever folks like me can offer in terms of experience with and evidence of its value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

I cannot think of a relevant business problem that we have been unable to solve with Iguana. We use it to monitor for edge cases and clean up data exceptions. We use it for batch jobs. We use it for API's and SFTP interfaces. We use it for huge database operations. We use it for alerting and email notifications. Folks from different areas of our business continually come to our team with ideas/requests for bringing efficiency and optimizing existing processes due to our proven track record for developing solutions with Iguana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

What I like most is the flexibility for creating and updating custom interface channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

There is nothing to dislike. Great support, very reliable, easy to troubleshoot issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to create custom HL7 interfaces between two different EHR systems so we can receive electronic lab results via an interface that could otherwise not exist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

What I like most about Iguana is its simplistic build which makes support and maintenance less of a headache, and the use of Lua for translation/filter code, being an easy language to learn for anyone familiar with any other programming or scripting languages, allows us to customize interface channels quickly with the necessary complexity needed. Dealing with Interfaceware staff is always a pleasant experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

Iguana currently has scaling, and "high-availability" shortcomings; its current message logging system has reliability and efficiency issues when dealing with large messages (HL7 containing encoded PDFs, etc.) and large volumes of data. While I like Lua, the language lacks the functionality and performance needed at times. There is also the issue of needing multiple Iguana servers to spread out channel loads; this makes support and configuration changes much more cumbersome. Ideally, Interfaceware would improve these issues by allowing the Iguana software to better utilize multi-core CPU server architecture that can be load balanced between 2 servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

We recently migrated our EHR to Epic from Cerner; as Epic doesn't allow the same level of message manipulation and flexibility on their Bridges engine that Cerner's OpenEngine provided, we are more reliant on Iguana for making sure data is properly formatted, filtered, and getting to where it needs to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicolas P.
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What do you like best about Iguana?

Iguana is a very easy product to use, the training options and extensive knowledge base articles explain how to get started on the product. The ongoing support by the Interfaceware team is reliable and quick to reply to any needs. This is a product that works for both small companies (we started with only 3 interfaces) or huge companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

The reporting options are very limited and must be built by your own team, unless you have the enterprise package. There are few functionality updates with the product over a number of years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a large amount of data that needs to be transformed from CSV / HL7 / Delimited into HL7 data and Iguana helps streamline the initial interface builds as well as track and fix any ongoing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Iguana?

The speed, primarily due to lua's efficiency is great, but from my perspective the dashboard is the best feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

This is a tricky question to answer because I'm not sure I dislike anything. For our purposes, it does everything we need and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clients are sending us HL7 data which we process in Iguana through Iguana before routing to our database, where the bulk of our logic is built, as well as in our C# engine. Iguana allows us to structure this process and visualize this data in ways we otherwise could not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maynard C.
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What do you like best about Iguana?

The business model is built on service! This is refreshing and puts me in the mindset to look for opportunities to engage.

We are not a number – Your team is viewed as an extension of our local resources. In today’s Customer/Vendor relationships, this is all but unheard of.

Iguana is a solid solution – With 25+ years of message processing experience in-house, Iguana is extremely stable and has handled everything we have asked of it with ease! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Iguana?

I have no negative feedback. Keep doing what you are doing today, and do not lose who you are as the business grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Iguana solving and how is that benefiting you?

Iguana is an affordable solution with robust functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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