Comparative Healthcare Outcomes Systems Company Chooses Red Brick to Improve
Scalability and Performance; Expects Greater Business Success
Through Red Brick Partnership
LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(R), today announced that HBS
International, Inc. (HBSI) replaced an existing data warehouse database with
Red Brick to help improve business and increase growth. HBSI, a leading
provider of comparative healthcare outcomes information, found that Red Brick
Warehouse, Red Brick's relational database management system designed from the
ground up for data warehousing, provides greater scalability and overall
performance for its complex data warehouse architecture. HBSI expects that
the use of Red Brick will reduce its data warehouse cost of ownership, help
improve services to its clients and provide significant growth potential.
"We have an enormous opportunity to provide comparative healthcare
information on performance outcomes that ultimately helps physicians choose
better treatments and healthcare organizations better manage their costs, but
our system needs to be top-notch in order to provide that information
accurately and on a timely basis," said Gregg Bennett, CEO of HBS
International, Inc. "We believe Red Brick provides the edge in database
performance that we were unable to get with our previous database. We expect
our partnership with Red Brick will help us attain our growth potential and
meet the demand for comparative information where our products and services
provide the right solutions to healthcare organizations."
"Companies with complex data, such as healthcare organizations, need
partners who can identify how to optimize that data to help improve their
business goals," said Chris Erickson, president and CEO of Red Brick. "This
is not simply a technology fit. This is a combination of industry expertise,
application of the appropriate technology and the desire to work together for
a common goal--bottom line success. HBSI demands the best in data warehouse
performance and we intend to provide it."
Since its inception as a company in 1991, HBSI has been focused on
building a large comparative database that integrates all aspects of
healthcare outcomes including operational efficiency, cost, quality,
functional status and patient satisfaction. HBSI's data warehouse is
considered one of the largest clinical and financial databases in the nation,
with data drawn from a large number of its 800 clients including hospitals,
physicians and other healthcare organizations.
The data warehouse enables HBSI member hospitals to evaluate patient care
at the transaction level and link individual patient events to clinical
outcomes. This gives the hospitals the ability to compare their services to
similar services of other hospitals. They can then make strategic decisions
regarding outcomes, length of stay and costs that ultimately enhance their
operational and clinical performance.
HBSI's products and future business hinge on its data warehouse
performance. "We discovered that we were restrained in terms of database
growth with our previous database. It was unable to scale to the levels we
anticipated reaching with our business goals," explained Greg Heitlauf, vice
president of Development at HBSI.
"We brought in Red Brick and benchmarked it against the existing
database's data models. Without even tuning the data warehouse for Red Brick,
the performance improvement in loading times, query speed and scalability was
incredible," added Heitlauf. "We're convinced that with Red Brick's
technology and its superior support and services, we've got a great business
partner who will help us reach our business goals."
Red Brick Warehouse offers the broadest range of industry-leading indexing
and joining technologies available in the market today to address the complex
data models required by healthcare organizations. These advanced technologies
deliver superior query processing and data warehouse performance.
Healthcare organizations worldwide such as Blue Cross Blue Shield
Association, Covenant Health, Hospital for Sick Children and Tufts Health
Plans chose Red Brick for its technology, support and recognition of
healthcare environments and requirements.
About HBSI
HBS International, Inc. provides comparative performance systems and data
repositories that enable healthcare organizations nationwide to measure,
benchmark and improve health outcomes. The company is headquartered in
Bellevue, Washington and has 195 employees. More information about the
company is available on the World Wide Web, at http://www.hbsi.com.
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is a leading provider
of comprehensive, integrated, high-performance software products and services
for data warehousing. Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse, is the
world's fastest and most scalable relational database for data warehousing,
including data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.
Red Brick helps businesses transform data into information for faster,
superior decision-making.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information
may also be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, please call
(800) 758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
Red Brick, the Red Brick logo and The Data Warehouse Company are
registered trademarks of Red Brick Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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