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Foil 22 Anecdotes from Insurance Industry

From HPCC Applications in Industry IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Empire Blue Cross / Blue Shield in Syracuse processes
  • 6.5 million transactions per day using an IBM3090-400 with a data center of 200 people
  • Expects IBM ES9000 to allow system to expand gracefully for future growth
  • Already all documents are scanned in and store in archives
  • Interested in fault tolerance
  • Does not need high performance unless goals change ....
  • Consumer Reports estimates that 20% of health care costs ($200B) is waste ....

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