GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.- April 18, 2011 –The TriZetto Group, Inc. today announced a new performance lab in which the company is using IBM hardware to test the scalability of its software applications for healthcare payer organizations. The testing will determine how many members each system can support without compromising performance. The company expects to announce results later this year.

TriZetto’s core enterprise platforms automate and streamline member enrollment, premium billing, claims adjudication, customer service and other administrative tasks. Its care management systems support case, disease and utilization management functions.

“Our applications serve all types and sizes of health plans,” said TriZetto’s Bruce Kaurene, vice president and chief technologist. “Our systems must be able to scale up to efficiently process the high volume of transactions of the largest payer organizations, with predictability and low risk, and scale down to enable the most cost-effective streamlining and automation of administrative functions for local and regional healthcare payers. This lab will demonstrate that TriZetto’s solutions can rise to the challenge.”

“While TriZetto has long tested its applications in lab settings, we embarked on a journey to establish a permanent performance, scalability and benchmarking lab to perform predictive modeling, drive higher quality and deliver higher value,” said David MacLeod, Ph.D., TriZetto Services chief technology officer. “This lab provides a near real-world environment in which to test and evaluate combinations of TriZetto and third-party partner products, both technology-based and manual procedures, to identify and confirm enhancements that provide operational acuity and efficiencies. In partnership with IBM and others, TriZetto will demonstrate the scalability of products and technologies that support large and small health plans, including those with growing, multimillion member counts.”

“TriZetto is a valued and long-time partner of IBM,” said Kathy Bennett, a vice president of IBM Systems and Technology Group, ISV Technical Enablement. “We’re confident that testing will support that TriZetto systems scale to varying membership levels, without performance degradation, running on IBM hardware. We believe that work in the performance lab over the coming months will prove that a payer’s investment in TriZetto and IBM can yield optimal performance with minimal hardware and maintenance. We are committed to working with TriZetto to scale solutions that help optimize workload performance with potentially lower total cost of ownership for our mutual payer customers.”

Located in TriZetto’s data center in downtown Albuquerque, the company’s performance lab is the nation’s only such dedicated facility that benchmarks the scalability of a software vendor’s systems for healthcare payer organizations. Sitting atop a raised white floor beneath a fire-retardant ceiling, the IBM equipment is industry-leading and, largely, just rolled off assembly lines in mid-2010. The equipment includes an IBM DS8000^® series-class storage system, IBM Power^®780 AIX server, set of 10 IBM System x3850 X5 Intel^® servers and N-Series Network-Attached Storage system. Under watchful eyes of cameras throughout this tidy, high-security data center, a combined team of TriZetto engineers and remote IBM technicians tune and tweak the software and hardware technology as they conduct simulations of the benefits and care administration tasks performed by health plans.

About TriZetto

TriZetto provides world-class healthcare IT software and service solutions, including patented and patent-pending innovations, that drive administrative efficiency, improve the cost and quality of care, and increase payer and provider collaboration and connectivity. TriZetto’s solutions touch half of the U.S. insured population and reach more than 21,000 physician practices representing more than 75,000 practitioners. The company’s payer offerings include enterprise and component software, application hosting and management, business process outsourcing services and consulting that help transform and optimize operations. TriZetto’s provider offerings through Gateway EDI, a wholly owned subsidiary, include advanced tools and proactive services to monitor, catch and fix claims issues before they can impact a practice. TriZetto’s integrated payer-provider platform will enable the deployment of promising new models of post-reform healthcare. TriZetto is committed to the integration and convergence of technology systems that enable its vision of Integrated Healthcare Management, the coordination of benefits and healthcare to drive more value from every healthcare dollar spent. For more information, visit www.trizetto.com.

 

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The TriZetto Group
Loren Finkelstein
303-542-2460
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