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> ( BW)(DELOITTE/DIGITAL/ORACLE)(DEC)(ORCL) Deloitte & Touche
> Consulting Group, Digital Equipment, and Oracle announce cutting-edge
> data warehousing solution for the health care industry
>
> Business Editors
>
>
> SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 18, 1997--Deloitte & Touche
> Consulting Group, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Oracle
> Corporation announced yesterday the release of a Health Care Data
> Warehouse, an innovative data warehouse solution set to offer health
> care professionals a system solution for managing critical patient
> and management information. Developed by Deloitte & Touche
> Consulting Group in cooperation with Digital Equipment Corporation
> and Oracle Corporation, the prototype integrates related sets of
> information from separate transaction systems and provides users with
> a set of applications to test, analyze, and deliver answers to
> real-world questions based on real-world data.
> "The data rich, information poor, health care industry has been
> struggling to fulfill the demand for quality health care services and
> to understand and control costs," said Larry Neiterman, National
> Health Care Practice Director, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group.
> "We designed the Health Care Data Warehouse to equip health care
> providers with the best tools to help them meet their information
> needs, manage day-to-day operations with greater efficiency, control
> costs, and ultimately improve the quality of patient care through
> improved information management."
> The power of the solution rests in its ability to quickly and
> efficiently provide users with tools and methods that help transform
> mountains of data residing in multiple systems into information and
> analyses designed to impact cost and quality of care. "Digital,
> Oracle and Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group have combined their
> proven strengths to deliver a world-class solution," said Mike
> Gallup, Vice President of Worldwide Systems Marketing at Digital.
> "In addition to being a highly data-intensive environment, today's
> health care industry must also address sky-rocketing costs. This
> initiative provides a much needed solution that enables customers to
> take advantage of the power, scalability, and proven performance of
> Digital's AlphaServer systems and services; the health care and
> integration experience of Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group; and
> Oracle's dynamic software in a single solution set."
>
> The system components are comprised of:
>
> -- Digital's AlphaServer family of systems: the industry's only
> complete line of high-performance 64-bit RISC servers, ranging from
> the AlphaServer 8000 enterprise servers at the high end, to the
> departmental and network AlphaServer 4000 and 2000 class systems, to
> the workgroup and LAN AlphaServer 400 platform.
> -- Oracle's Oracle 7 Release 7.3: the first commercial relational
> database to support 64-bit operating systems. Also in use are Oracle
> Express Objects, Oracle Sales Analyzer, and Oracle Discoverer/2000:
> industry leading tools for development, query, and analysis of both
> relational and multi-dimensional data warehouses.
> "The value created by this relationship is to deliver a powerful
> solution to the health care industry. Deloitte & Touche Consulting
> Group has the in-depth knowledge and experience in the health care
> industry and has the leading-edge systems integration capabilities
> to design the solution, and Digital offers a superb platform on which
> to run our data warehouse software," said Polly Summer, Oracle's
> Vice President of Worldwide Alliances. "Their experience coupled
> with our technology has proven to be a win-win situation for all."
> Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group is one of the world's leading
> consulting services practices with revenues of $1.55 billion in 1996.
> With 10,000 professionals around the world, it provides an array of
> seamless services to industries including health care, manufacturing,
> financial services, consumer intensive businesses,
> telecommunications, public sector, and utilities. Deloitte & Touche
> Consulting Group work with clients to create change that produces
> results.
> Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group is part of Deloitte & Touche
> Tohmatsu International, a global leader in professional services with
> over 63,440 people providing consulting, audit, tax, and related
> services to clients in 125 countries. Information on Deloitte &
> Touche Consulting Group is available on the World Wide Web at
> http://www.dtcg.com .
> Digital Equipment Corporation is a leader in open client/server
> solution from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
> systems. Digital's scaleable Alpha and Intel platforms, storage,
> networking, software and services, combined with industry-focused
> solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win
> in today's global marketplace.
> The Oracle Alliance Program creates, fosters, and expands
> relationships with leading information technology companies to
> deliver best-of-breed solutions to customers around the world. For
> more information on the Oracle Alliance Program, visit
> http://alliance.oracle.com .
> Oracle Corporation is the world's second largest software company
> and the largest supplier of software for information management.
> With annual revenues of more than $4.5 billion, the company offers
> its database, tools, and application products, along with consulting,
> education, and support services, in more than 90 countries around the
> world.
> This Data Warehouse Solution will be featured at the 1997 Annual
> HIMSS Conference in San Diego, California from February 16 - 20,
> 1997. To see this and other innovative technology solutions for the
> Health Care Industry, visit the Deloitte & Touche booth, No.
> 3214-3218.
>
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