Accountable Health Inc uses ClusterControl to outcompete larger rivals
Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 20/07/2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database infrastructure management software, today announced its latest customer, Accountable Health INC (AHI). This move comes at a time when technology is disrupting healthcare globally with the introduction of self-service medicine kiosks and virtual medical consultations.
AHI is a US-based company which helps pharmaceutical and healthcare firms to enhance their business and technical performance. Subsidiaries of AHI, such as Connect Health Solutions and Accountable Health Solutions, help employers build health and wellness programmes to facilitate a stronger return on investment in employees. Severalnines’ ClusterControl enables AHI to remedy database issues affecting business performance.
This is the second time the IT team at AHI has chosen Severalnines’ ClusterControl over rivals such as Oracle, Microsoft and Rackspace to provide database infrastructure. With the acquisition of Connect Health Solutions, AHI learnt the existing database infrastructure was inadequate. The pressure on the database caused severe data overloads and failed to handle the massive queries the business required, meaning client portals crashed regularly and employees were waiting for hours for the server to upload claims documents. AHI estimated the previous IT set-up was losing the business thousands of dollars each day in productivity loss.
To compete in a highly competitive US healthcare market, AHI needed to achieve high database uptime, availability and reliability for all businesses across its portfolio. Having successfully deployed ClusterControl in the past, AHI deployed the database management platform again to improve technology performance and customer satisfaction. Other solutions were seen as unattainable due to technical complexity and prohibitive costs.
It took 10 days to fully deploy ClusterControl and migrate to a clustered database setup. Severalnines assisted AHI with the migration. AHI can now access Severalnines’ database experts with one phone call which is different to the tiered support systems offered by the large software vendors.
ClusterControl is now the database management platform for all wholly-owned subsidiaries of AHI, who themselves currently deploy clusters on commodity off-the-shelf hardware. The ease of deployment and management along with competitive pricing meant AHI could be agile in its growth strategy and compete with US healthcare rivals such as Trizetto, Optum and Cognizant Healthcare Consulting.
Greg Sarrica, Director of IT development at AHI, said: “Using ClusterControl was an absolute no-brainer for me. AHI looked for an alternative to Oracle and IBM, which could match our demands and with our budget. We wanted to give our clients frictionless access to their healthcare information without portals crashing and potentially losing their personal data. Now we have a solution that allows us to be agile when competing in the fast-moving US healthcare market.”
Vinay Joosery, Severalnines CEO said: “The security and availability of data is indicative of the performance of healthcare providers. The US healthcare industry is so compact that smaller businesses need to punch harder than their bigger rivals to gain market share. We are happy to be working with AHI and help the team there deliver fast and accurate customer service.”
About Severalnines
Severalnines provides automation and management software for database clusters. We help companies deploy their databases in any environment, and manage all operational aspects to achieve high-scale availability.
Severalnines' products are used by developers and administrators of all skills levels to provide the full 'deploy, manage, monitor, scale' database cycle, thus freeing them from the complexity and learning curves that are typically associated with highly available database clusters. The company has enabled over 8,000 deployments to date via its popular online database configurator. Currently counting BT, Orange, Cisco, CNRS, Technicolour, AVG, Ping Identity and Paytrail as customers. Severalnines is a private company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan. To see who is using Severalnines today visit, http://www.severalnines.com/company.
About Accountable Health Solutions
Accountable Health Solutions was founded in 1992 as Molloy Wellness Company and acquired by the Principal Financial Group in 2004, with ownership transferred to Accountable Health, Inc., and whose name changed to Accountable Health Solutions in 2013.
Accountable Health Solutions offers comprehensive health and wellness programs to employers and health plan clients. Accountable Health combines smart technology, healthcare and behavior change expertise to deliver solutions that improve health, increase efficiencies and reduce costs in the delivery of healthcare. The company's product suite ranges from traditional wellness products to health improvement programs. Accountable Health Solutions is an industry leader with more than 20 years in the health and wellness industry and a 97% client retention rate. More at accountablehealthsolutions.com.
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