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Cerner Corporation, a global health care information technology company, has successfully leveraged Red Hat Enterprise Linux to enhance the stability and performance of its world-class application hosting services. Combined with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved scalability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has helped Cerner meet the healthcare industry’s growing demand for IT solutions and services.
Combining clinical, financial, and administrative information management solutions, the Cerner Millennium® suite of solutions provides tools for managing electronic medical records, patient care, and health information access. A substantial portion of Cerner’s clients, representing nearly 14,000 facilities and 250,000 U.S. healthcare beds, choose to host their Millennium solutions remotely via CernerWorks?, Cerner’s application hosting service, meaning that uptime, reliability, and scalability are of vital importance.
In the mid-2000s, Cerner sought to migrate the database tier of its hosted Millennium platform from UNIX-based proprietary systems to Linux running on x86 servers, and ultimately selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on previous experience with the technology. The migration began in earnest in 2006, with Cerner moving their database tier to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP ProLiant servers.
The database tier migration was so successful that in 2008, Cerner elected to move the application tier of Cerner Millennium, the most critical component of Cerner’s hosted solution architecture, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP ProLiant servers using Intel Xeon processors. Almost immediately, Cerner began to see dramatic improvements in the Millennium platform’s stability, uptime and performance, with the company able to tout greater than 99.9 percent availability while substantially decreasing or outright eliminating technology costs. Scalability of the hosting infrastructure also improved, with Cerner now able to provision servers for new clients in a fraction of the time versus the proprietary UNIX systems.
