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SinfoníaRx: Delivering better patient outcomes and billion- dollar savings through analytics

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • IBM LinuxONE
  • IBM Db2
  • IBM Security AppScan
  • IBM Security QRadar SIEM
  • IBM Security Guardium
Tech Stack
  • Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • Apache
  • PHP
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
  • Logistics & Transportation
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Cybersecurity
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • Cybersecurity Services
  • Data Science Services
About The Customer
SinfoníaRx is an industry leader in Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services, helping optimize medication use and improve the health of patients with chronic illness. Its highly customizable MTM programs support approximately 50 million patients in across more than 350 health plans. The company has a team of pharmacists solely focused on providing medication reviews and clinical interventions to improve health, wellness and the management of chronic health conditions. Each patient gets a comprehensive medication review, and SinfoníaRx works with them and their doctors on an ongoing basis to optimize treatment plans. This includes monitoring the medications they take to ensure that they are safe, effective and being taken correctly.
The Challenge
SinfoníaRx, a leader in Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services, was facing a challenge of managing and analyzing vast amounts of prescription data for millions of patients. The company needed to ensure fast, accurate analysis of this data to improve patient outcomes and save healthcare providers millions. The complexity of modern healthcare, with thousands of prescription drugs approved for use, made it difficult for doctors and pharmacists to determine the right combinations of medication for each patient. SinfoníaRx was established to address these needs by pioneering modern Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services. However, as demand for its healthcare data analytics services rocketed, SinfoníaRx needed a data-processing platform capable of huge scalability and uninterrupted performance.
The Solution
SinfoníaRx chose IBM LinuxONE and IBM Db2 as the core platform for its business to address its challenges around scale, growth, security and performance. The company recently bought its second IBM Linux-only enterprise server, moving the original machine to act as a disaster-recovery option in a second location, and using Db2 native data replication to mirror production data. The application servers (both production and integration/testing) run alongside the database servers on LinuxONE, all virtualized on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Development sits on an x86 server, and the resulting PHP code runs without modification in the Apache environment on LinuxONE. Running on LinuxONE gives SinfoníaRx the flexibility and low cost of Linux, combined with the bulletproof reliability of an enterprise server platform that also supports many of the world’s largest companies.
Operational Impact
  • IBM LinuxONE and Db2 support rapid, reliable analysis of billions of lines of data, translating into fast, insightful reporting to SinfoníaRx’s clients and their patients.
  • When the system identifies potentially harmful clashes between drugs, alerts go out to doctors and their patients, enabling them to avoid potentially life-threatening complications.
  • Beyond the immediate benefits to patient outcomes, the intelligent reporting delivered by SinfoníaRx helps reduce both unnecessary prescriptions and the need for repeated medical interventions, saving huge amounts of money for the industry.
  • The robustness and scalability of the LinuxONE platform gives the company full confidence in its ability to serve both existing and new clients.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Over $1B in cumulative savings delivered to the healthcare industry
  • Over 20M members onboarded within a single year with no impact on performance
  • 1 in 7 U.S. citizens served with potentially life-saving analytics

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