Gyeongsang National University Hospital Cuts System Recovery Time from Two Hours to 40 Minutes
 
 

Gyeongsang National University Hospital Cuts System Recovery Time from Two Hours to 40 Minutes

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Gyeongsang National University Hospital was established in 1987 as an affiliate hospital of Gyeongsang National University’s School of Medicine. The 950-bed hospital offers a wide range of medical treatments and undertakes extensive research into public health. It strives to provide high-quality care, particularly to marginalized members of the community.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Gyeongsang National University Hospital

  • "A system failure has serious implications on our ability to care for patients. By implementing Oracle GoldenGate, we have a robust, reliable standby database to fall back on in the event of a failure, ensuring our patients’ health is not compromised.” – Park Chan-hu, Chief, Medical Information Department, Gyeongsang National University Hospital

  • Install a disaster recovery system that will help ensure continuity of patient care with minimum downtime in the event of a system failure
  • Supplement a hardware replication system that was resilient to server failures but vulnerable to operating system and user issues, such as problems that occurred when transactions are not backed up in real-time
  • Ensure seamless integration with existing hospital databases to enable future expansion

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Engaged Oracle Partner DB Core to implement Oracle GoldenGate, which ensured the main hospital database can be swiftly restored in the event of a failure
  • Increased database stability by 30% during the pretesting stage, ensuring hospital systems are available to enable the delivery of prompt, efficient, and consistent medical services
  • Shortened system recovery time from two hours to 40 minutes, by replicating information in real time from the main hospital database to a standby database
  • Ensured patients receive optimum care even in the rare event of a system failure, as doctors and nurses can access the standby database to view patient records
  • Created an electronic medical record system containing patients’ medical histories, ensuring data is duplicated in real-time using Oracle GoldenGate so that critical patient data and test results are available if the main database fails
  • Reduced workload on the main hospital database by using the standby database for nonpatient care activities such as reporting, statistics collection, and testing
  • Enabled high compatibility between disparate hospital databases to protect against failure during system expansion

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