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

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

IBM

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Cybersecurity Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services Data Science Services
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Data Science Services

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.

About 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.

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.

Impact #1	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.
Impact #2	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.
Impact #3	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.

Impact #1

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.

Impact #2

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.

Impact #3

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.

Benefit #1	Over $1B in cumulative savings delivered to the healthcare industry
Benefit #2	Over 20M members onboarded within a single year with no impact on performance
Benefit #3	1 in 7 U.S. citizens served with potentially life-saving analytics

Benefit #1

Over $1B in cumulative savings delivered to the healthcare industry

Benefit #2

Over 20M members onboarded within a single year with no impact on performance

Benefit #3

1 in 7 U.S. citizens served with potentially life-saving analytics

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

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