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Company: Midland Memorial Hospital
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Midland, Texas
Business Challenge: Replace an existing proprietary health information system (HIS) with an open-source-based suite of integrated applications to improve quality of patient care while cutting costs.
Migration Path: Moved from proprietary HIS legacy system to an open-source solution based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP hardware.
Software: Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution.
Hardware: Two HP Proliant DL580 G2 servers and one HP ProLiant DL380 server; HP Compaq desktops for client machines.
Implemented an open-source EHR that put patient information at the fingertips of healthcare providers for less than half the price of an equivalent proprietary system.
“Red Hat continues to make an incredibly valuable contribution to the technology industry by putting its tremendous resources behind Linux and commercializing it for enterprise use. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast for years, and I absolutely trust my organization’s well-being to Red Hat.” –David Whiles, Director of Information Systems for Midland Memorial Hospital
CSI-Piemonte, Iride Energia and City of Marsala implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and additional Red Hat solutions
Raleigh, NC — October 23, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support. » Read more
Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Louisville, CO
Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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Industry: Healthcare
Geography: San Francisco, CA
Opportunity: Integrate disparate software applications on one unified platform to provide a comprehensive solution to improve patient care
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, and Hibernate
Applications: McKesson healthcare solutions, Oracle RAC
Hardware: Intel dual and quad-core Xeon server platforms
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
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