| Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine Achieves Record Message Processing Results |
Top-Rated Solution Processes over 1.3 Million HL7 Messages Per Hour, for Faster Communication between Healthcare ApplicationssSANTA MONICA, Calif.- September 5, 2006 Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announces Rhapsody™ Integration Engine achieved high performance HL7 messaging throughput of 1.36 million messages per hour on an IBM P Series p570 high performance machine at IBM's Innovation Centre, Sydney, Australia.Integration engines, also called integration brokers, provide message transformation and routing services, aiding communication between software programs. Using integration engines, healthcare providers can integrate data previously residing in separate applications without a costly investment in new software infrastructure. Orion Health recently teamed with the globally-recognized IBM Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia to undergo performance testing and analysis. Rhapsody Integration Engine was put through its paces to take advantage of high performance machines, and to achieve a superior performance for message processing. "Having access to high performance hardware, and the ability to test on multiple configurations has enabled us to achieve record-breaking benchmarks for processing HL7 messages on both the UNIX and Windows platforms with our Rhapsody Integration Engine," said Paul de Bazin, Group General Manager for Orion Health Rhapsody. "The scale of testing at the IBM Innovation Centre meant that we were able to gain a much greater understanding of the performance characteristics of Orion Rhapsody on a variety of hardware and software configurations. By creating complex customer-use scenarios we have identified barriers to maximum throughput and can now make recommendations to customers based on these test results," continues de Bazin. Rhapsody was tested on IBM System p(R) hardware using IBM WebSphere(R) software with phenomenal results, demonstrating how maximum throughput can be achieved for Rhapsody customers. Rhapsody was designed specifically for healthcare organizations, delivering the unique expertise and functionality required. Worldwide, Orion Health is implementing health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users. About Rhapsody Integration Engine Consistently rated the number one healthcare integration engine by KLAS, Rhapsody has been designed to meet the present and future needs of health integration. The Rhapsody Engine manages and streamlines message exchange between hospital applications, databases and external systems. Rhapsody delivers an integration solution with the lowest cost of ownership and highest return on investment. About Orion Health Orion Health's easy-to-use applications and tools integrate and enhance existing healthcare information systems and deliver secure, universal access to information. The innovative company delivers an end-to-end information technology (IT) integration platform that brings together clinical content to improve clinician effectiveness and the quality of patient care. Orion's partners include leading health and IT vendors such as Oracle Corporation, Philips Medical Systems, LogicaCMG, Hewlett Packard, McKesson, and Sierra Systems. Orion also has more than 1,000 clients worldwide including Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York State Department of Health, Central Washington Hospital, US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and many more. More information can be found at www.orionhealth.com. |
