Insurers’ Market Repository Update July 2009
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Insurers’ Market Repository Update July 2009
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IMR: The need for change
This is a large, vital piece of Market Infrastructure
• Hardware sized for 1,000 users and 60,000 new claims a year
• Growth has clearly exceeded the designed capacity
Month J an Feb Mar Apr May J un
Name Business days > 21 20 22 20 19 22Pages
Total per Business day > 586,768 581,832 604,324 611,643 702,840 738,921
DRI Messages
Total per Business day > 13,171 12,725 12,929 13,308 13,625 23,555
Users
Increase per month > 82 -81 112 82 38 99
Documents
3,422,284Total per Business day > 18,309 17,766 18,217 19,126 18,742 19,246
6,739,800
518,210
5,960,294 6,316,389
5,732 5,651
11,636,638 13,295,123 12,232,860 16,256,272
276,586
13,353,958
5,763
5,176,999 5,577,783
258,876254,504 284,430 266,158
Number of Registered Users (Users with a login to the repository)
Volumes of Document stored
12,322,134
4,821,675
Volumes of messages and pages served (Numbers reflect the number of
hits, rather than pages served)
5,845 5,883 5,982
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IMR2 requirements were conceived
Big – planned capacity growth to meet demand
Speedy – improved Service Levels
Resilient - no single points of failure & enhanced DR
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This translated into
New Hardware
• New data centre
• Hardware, storage and networks replaced
New Software
• Core Repository software upgraded
• Appearance of screens changed
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New hardware
• 70 new servers
• 19 kilometres of copper cable
• 7 environments
• 77 switches & routers
• 14 firewalls
• 8 databases
• 1 Global site selector
A complex undertaking
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New Software Every screen was changed and had to be tested along with all
functions
This required extensive (and occasionally painful!) testing involving the following organisations
Thank You
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Market Delivery
On Time
IMR P2 Jul 09 On time IMR P2 Jul 09 On time
ECF6A May07 On timeECF6A May07 On time
A&SR2 Aug07 On timeA&SR2 Aug07 On time
ECF6B Aug07 On timeECF6B Aug07 On time
ECFIUA Nov07 On timeECFIUA Nov07 On time
A&SR3 Nov07 On timeA&SR3 Nov07 On time
A&SR4 May08 On timeA&SR4 May08 On time
ECF7A May08 On timeECF7A May08 On time
ECF7B Nov08 On timeECF7B Nov08 On time
IMR P1 Oct08 On timeIMR P1 Oct08 On time
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Some issues
Two outages in the first week
Online system 2 hours Monday, DRI 8 hours Tuesday
Viewing and uploading of documents
Large claims files, ACL issue
Desktop Issues
Browser cache, cookies, Proxies and firewalls
Functionality
Small number of functional issues to be addressed
PerformanceAnecdotal evidence suggests this is improved
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What’s next?
IMR Security Model Nov 09
MTBC, MTMC, Confidential Terms, TPA, Conflict of Interest
eAccounts Release 1 Nov 09
non-fundamental messaging, autoload to core systems
2009
2010
eAccounts Release 2 Q2
acceptance of fundamental-level submissions and rollout of a central Accounting Splits service
ECF2 Q1 / Q2Document File Viewer, Claims Workflow Triggers, Claims Performance, Claims Workflow Service, Claims Agreement Screens