Case Study: Cerner achieves near‑real‑time analytics and 6,000% faster RTMS processing with Vertica

Vertica helps optimize health information solutions to improve efficiency and quality of patient care

Cerner Corporation, the maker of the Millennium electronic health record platform used by thousands of providers, embeds roughly 2,000 Response Time Measurement System (RTMS) timers that generate billions of performance and workflow records each month. As adoption grew, Cerner’s legacy data warehouse could not analyze that volume fast enough to proactively detect performance issues or optimize clinician workflows.

Cerner implemented the Vertica Analytics Platform for its superior speed, concurrency and scalability—cutting analysis of a large client’s 6 million daily RTMS timers from 20 minutes to 20 seconds (a 6,000% improvement), supporting 450+ concurrent users, and scaling from roughly 6 billion to 10 billion monthly records. The result is faster, proactive performance management, predictive monitoring, clinician workflow “coaching,” and dramatically reduced query times for clinical analytics—improving service availability and quality of patient care.

Cerner

Dan Woicke

Director, Enterprise System Management