Healthcare organizations today operate in a highly regulated environment where data volumes are growing exponentially, compliance requirements are stricter than ever, and IT budgets face constant pressure. Legacy systems—especially mainframe claims systems—pose a significant challenge to innovation. They are expensive to maintain, difficult to integrate with modern platforms, and often limit data accessibility.
In this context, claims system retirement has become more than a cost-saving measure—it is a strategic enabler for modernization, compliance, and better patient outcomes.
This Solix case study illustrates how one of the nation’s largest managed health plans partnered with Solix Technologies to retire two complex mainframe claims systems, migrate more than 212 terabytes of structured and unstructured data, and enable HIPAA-compliant data retirement. The result was multi-million-dollar healthcare IT cost savings, faster modernization, and improved access to historical data.
For decades, many health plans have relied on mainframe systems to manage claims processing, provider contracts, and member data. While these systems were reliable in their time, they have become unsustainable:
Clearly, mainframe claims modernization was critical, but the path forward required a trusted partner with deep expertise in enterprise archiving for healthcare.
The health plan selected Solix Technologies for its proven ability to handle large-scale application retirement projects in highly regulated industries. Solix’s Application Retirement and Enterprise Archiving Solution provided:
Solix deployed a comprehensive data retirement solution across multiple parallel workstreams.