Red Hat Innovation Award Finalists in the Healthcare Arena

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced the finalists of the seventh annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red Hat technology. The following are three of the finalists in the healthcare arena.

Outstanding Open Source Architecture

• Cigna - As health care reform introduced new regulations that demanded greater business and IT agility, one of the largest health service companies in the world embarked on a company-wide business transformation project to evolve its internal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategy. By utilizing Red Hat's enterprise Linux, middleware, and virtualization solutions, Cigna has successfully designed and built a self-service provisioning component to develop frameworks and solutions that will be used to transform Cigna IT, while also rapidly responding to new health care regulations. Cigna is one of the largest health service companies and health care insurance providers in the US market, Cigna also operates internationally in 30 countries, and has more than 70 million customer relationships worldwide.

Superior Alternatives

• Roche - The European research-based healthcare company needed to revamp its middleware platform infrastructure for shared environments worldwide. Roche looked to open source technology as the foundation for its migration. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Data Services, and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network has provided the framework for Roche to drastically improve its application delivery time from three weeks to three days. As a research-focused healthcare company, Roche discovers, develops and provides innovative diagnostic and therapeutic products and services that deliver significant benefits to patients and healthcare professionals – from early detection and prevention of diseases to diagnosis, treatment and treatment monitoring.

Best Middleware Implementation

• Spin Systems, Inc. - Asked to develop a healthcare data collection and aggregation system by a U.S. Department of Defense agency, Spin Systems used Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware to build a system that has collected more than 1.2 billion records a day from medical diagnostic devices, electronic medical records, information kiosks, and a broad range of other sources. In addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, with the new solution, DoD professionals can now access healthcare records in minutes. Spin Systems provides a wide array of innovative products, technical services and solutions for Government agencies - especially for surveillance and early detection of global health and biological threats, and bio-threat containment programs.

For more information about the Red Hat Innovation Awards and award winners announced at the Red Hat  Summit held this past week in Boston – go to http://www.redhat.com/summit/

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