Case studies

The Institute for Information Industry employs a security-rich infrastructure to protect the privacy of genetic information.

Halton Borough comprises four separate directorates. Each ran its own systems and maintained its own data sets, sharing little information with each other. System Architect was used to target key areas of public-facing services, aiming to increase service quality by improving the interactions between the directorates.

HHSC needed to evolve to a multichannel business model and provide better and more varied services over the phone, at hospitals, in community centers, at agency offices and via the Internet. Its SOA solution met all these needs and leveraged an existing $350 million IT investment.

By standardizing on IBM Cognos, the City of Coquitlam has given its users increased insight into city-wide data, as well as the ability to consolidate information.

A District Health Bureau in China needed to share information among 500 healthcare organizations and 22 hospitals. The bureau implemented an electronic medical records (EMR) system based on an IBM service oriented architecture (SOA) integrating vital patient information from myriad disparate systems.