ICW LifeSensor Passes Performance Benchmark

Personal Health Record Ready for Heavy Volume Use

WALLDORF, Germany, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- 10,000 virtual users access 10
million LifeSensor(R) personal health records simultaneously. Response times
are
stable at less than two seconds. In a nutshell, this is the result of a
ten-day
performance test conducted by eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW)
at
the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Center. The result
proves
again: LifeSensor is ready for large-scale use.
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The performance test verified LifeSensor's capacity, performance and
scalability under extreme conditions. LifeSensor is a Web-based personal
health
record that enables anyone to safely store copies of their health relevant
information and manage it, no matter when or where. Only the owner has access
to
this personal information. However, users can permit their doctor, pharmacist,
hospital or other health care providers to access their data. The
performance test scenario not only simulated access by 10,000 virtual
users to a database consisting of 10 million personal health records, but also
simulated use by 20,000 doctors and pharmacists. While patients, for example,
enter health information relating to their most recent medical appointments or
create new appointments, doctors process larger amounts of data when
synchronizing
their patients' personal health records with their own local patient
documentation
systems. Peak loads during the performance benchmark showed that up to 700
simultaneous record accesses were possible, with system performance remaining
stable. That means that even over a prolonged period of time up to 8,500 users
could process personal health records at any given time. At times of peak use,
more than 10,000 simultaneous users were online. The results confirmed that
the
LifeSensor personal health record is not only highly capable and scalable but
also
especially secure.

"ICW has done exemplary work in designing and developing the LifeSensor
personal health record platform. Running on HP's hardware, LifeSensor delivers
outstanding results and fulfills the requirements of markets worldwide," says
Hans-Jurgen Preuss, sales manager for the health sector of Hewlett Packard
Germany. "Personal health record platforms need to be scalable, highly
accessible,
stable, and above all secure, so that users and health care providers can use
the
records anytime, world-wide. The test results prove once again that LifeSensor
is
ready for widespread use," adds Peter Reuschel, CEO of ICW.

Test parameters
The benchmark test was conducted using industry-standard hardware and
operating system software from leading technology providers. Among the
equipment
used was ProLiant DL 380 G5 servers with quad-core Intel-Xeon processors and
AMD
Opteron quad-core processors. Also used was an HP EVA 4000 SAN storage system
equipped with 5 TB hard disk storage. The system was run using the Novell Suse
SLES 10 64-bit operating system, and with Oracle 10g R2 and Real Application
Cluster Option as the database. The desired high level of user load was
simulated
using Apache JMeter freeware.
Along with ICW's Master Patient Index (MPI), one of the components of
ICW's
Professional Exchange Server, LifeSensor is the second solution out of the ICW
portfolio to be subjected to performance testing at the Hewlett Packard
European
Performance and Benchmark Center. Together with its partners, ICW conducts
periodic performance benchmarks for the continuous improvement of its product
line.
For additional information, please contact:
InterComponentWare AG (ICW)
Dirk Schuhmann
Tel: +49 (0)6227-385-133
Fax: +49 (0)6227-385-199
E-Mail: dirk.schuhmann@icw-global.com

About InterComponentWare:
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialist
with
locations in Germany, the United States, Austria, Switzerland, and Bulgaria.
Its
solutions for networking the various players in the healthcare system
lastingly
improve process-oriented communication and data integrity, and therefore also
the
quality of healthcare. Among other things, ICW develops and distributes
software
and hardware components for national and regional eHealth infrastructures, the
LifeSensor personal health record as well as networking solutions for
hospitals
and physician offices. As part of the bIT4health consortium, ICW provided
important consulting services for the implementation of the electronic health
card
in Germany, is involved in the Austrian eCard project and has recently won the
pilot project for the national health card in Bulgaria.

SOURCE InterComponentWare AG

Dirk Schuhmann of InterComponentWare AG, +49-0-6227-385-133, or Fax,
+49-0-6227-385-199, dirk.schuhmann@icw-global.com