IBM zEnterprise: Healthcare

George Mattathil -
5/10/2011

IBM zEnterprise System
business value for the healthcare industry
Smarter systems for a smarter planet™

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To succeed, health care organizations are focusing on three key
Smarter Healthcare™ imperatives that are directly benefited by the
new IBM zEnterprise System advantages.

IMPROVE OPERATIONAL ACHIEVE BETTER QUALITY
EFFECTIVENESS AND OUTCOMES
 Contain costs
DELIVER COLLABORATIVE
CARE FOR PREVENTION  Improve quality of care,
 Improve operational prevention and wellness
AND WELLNESS
efficiency  Proactively manage chronic
 Create new business  Activate patients and disease
value communities to improve health  Measure and demonstrate
and wellness reporting compliance
 Increase health care value

IBM’s healthcare industry value proposition
IBM collaborates with health benefits organizations to help them operate efficiently, achieve better
quality and performance, and develop new care models to create member value.

The IBM healthcare industryvalue proposition is enhancedwith the introduction of the new
IBMzEnterprise™ System.

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Healthcare organizations‟ IT-dependent business
goals and outcomes advantaged by zEnterprise.

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eHealth and 2 Quality and Modernization and
collaborative care Performance Transformation
DESIRED OUTCOMES of high-priority payor IT initiatives
 Better personal health management for • More informed, timely decisions based  Reduced core operations cost and
members and patients on member-centric, enterprise increased business flexibility
 Strengthened collaborative information  Improved service responsiveness
partnerships with members, patients • New member and business value, and through rapid adoption and response to
and providers improved financial results risks and opportunities
 Improved health decision effectiveness,  Improved business and compliance risk
• Increased member growth and
quality and safety, and reduced management covering privacy, security,
retention through delivery of higher-
medical costs long-term data retention and
value products and services
 Improved stakeholder satisfaction and information availability
member, patient and provider • Improved risk transparency and
experience reduced losses

DESIRED OUTCOMES of high-priority provider IT initiatives
• Improved quality of care and • Higher quality outcomes, process efficiency • Improved core operational flexibility to
patient safety through collaboration and cost reductions through intelligence support cost reduction and excellence
• Better integration of care teams infused into decision-making • Faster service responsiveness and
• Improved efficiency to control • Improved transparency and quality reporting more efficient and effective IT-
healthcare costs • Optimized business performance and enabled business services
• Improved efficiency through clinical operational knowledge to act on new • Improved management of business
automation of Electronic Medical opportunities and compliance risk related
Records

Healthcare business processes addressed by new
IBM zEnterprise System advantages.
IMPROVE OPERATIONAL ACHIEVE BETTER QUALITY DELIVER
EFFECTIVENESS AND OUTCOMES COLLABORATIVE
CARE

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Cost containment Insight and compliance Increased efficiency and value

EXAMPLE: Independent findings indicate that healthcare institutions can realize significant
cost and operational efficiencies with the IBM zEnterprise™ System, such as:

24 percent
lower IT cost-per-
hospital bed

“… in the long run the marketplace rewards those that make the optimum use of the right
computing resourcesin the right way as evidenced by business performance”
— Dr. Howard Rubin, CEO and Founder Rubin Worldwide

Built on best-in-class systems and software technologies, IBM
zEnterprise helps unify IT for predictable service delivery healthcare organizations demand.

Three new innovations of IBM zEnterprise™ System

IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) zEnterprise Unified zEnterprise BladeCenter
Resource Manager Extension (zBX)
 Optimized to host large-scale  Unifies management of  Selected IBM POWER7 blades
database, transaction, and resources, extending IBM and IBM System x Blades* for
mission-critical applications System z qualities of service tens of thousands of AIX and
 The most efficient platform end-to-end across workloads Linux applications
for large-scale Linux  Provides platform, hardware  High-performance optimizers
consolidation and workload management and appliances to accelerate
 Capable of massive scale-up time to insight and reduce cost
 New easy-to-use z/OS V1.12  Dedicated high-performance
* All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice,
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Extending IBM System z® qualities of service to make
clouds ready for healthcare organizations.

Security Virtualization
Industry-leading security at the Centralized management of
core of an integrated virtual servers across a
infrastructure heterogeneous pool
Identifies potential fraud in near More than 100,000 virtual servers in
real time a single IBM zEnterprise™ System

Availability Efficiency
Resiliency management and Economies of scale for labor,
fewer points of failure software and environmental costs
Centralized management of Helps reduce labor, energy, and
heterogeneous workloads development costs, by up to 70
aligned to business priorities percent, 90 percent, and 20 percent,
respectively
(IBM Internal Study based on Oracle SW with
Nehalem 4 core running 25% utilization)
Scalability
Ability to help meet massive demands
from users and data
Process up to a trillion instructions per
second with a single IBM zEnterprise System


Healthcare provider—information hubs

Challenges and issues:
 Client grew through acquisitions and has multiple systems—looking to consolidate data
and systems to reduce complexity and the number of systems to update
 Challenged to support new industry mandates
 Need to standardize on platforms to reduce complexity for development, test and
production
 Need to reduce the time required to configure a new development and test environment
 Need ability to monitor the end-to-end transaction flow to determine bottlenecks
 New application—some architectural choices still being investigated

Business advantage:
The Future with IBM
Consolidation and simplification can provide client
zEnterprise™ System
agility to better compete in the highly volatile and
Consolidate information into competitive healthcare industry
„information hubs‟ that will be used
Operational advantage:
by all of the adjudication systems.
Two options being considered  Application and data proximity
include Master Data Management  Manage and monitor cross actions on one ensemble
using IBM DB2® on IBM z/OS®  Network—high speed, private, possible opportunity for reduced
for data store with IBM requirements for firewalls and encryption
WebSphere® on either IBM AIX®  Allows for virtualization across multiple tier workloads
or Linux® for IBM System z®  Consistency and standardization of operating system, middleware
and application reduces variations in test
 Consolidated floor space
 Reduced energy costs

Summary: A new dimension in computing for
healthcare organizations.

Management Multi-platform  The world‟s fastest and most scalable
integration integration enterprise systems with virtually
unrivalled reliability, security and
manageability
 The industry‟s most efficient platforms
for large-scale data center simplification
and consolidation
 A “system of systems,” integrating IBM‟s
leading technologies to help improve
dramatically the productivity of today‟s
multi-architecture data centers and
Stack tomorrow‟s private clouds
integration

For more details:
ibm.com/systems/zenterprise

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