Active-active Data Center Solution for Regional Healthcare

I. Industry status

With the development of information technology, Internet-based medical and health services such as health education, medical information inquiry, electronic health records, electronic prescriptions, telemedicine, and rehabilitation have gradually changed the traditional medical service model. The way to improve operational efficiency and service quality by using medical information has become a new problem faced by medical and health institutions.

II. Pain points and requirements of small- and medium-sized hospitals

Most hospitals in China have implemented information system construction for many years. After the application and promotion of various application systems, the information system construction of hospitals is gradually advancing from hospital management to healthcare management. However, the degree of information automation in each hospital varies greatly.

When promoting information construction, small- and medium-sized hospitals encounter the following problems:

● Due to the outdated facilities of the existing campus and the continuous growth of the outpatient visits, the original supporting facilities and IT equipment can no longer meet the current business needs. Hospitals need to build a new campus to improve outpatient visits and service quality

● With the advancement of hospital information system and the continuous increase of application systems, the shortcomings of the original systems featuring information silos and stovepipe IT architectures have been exposed, such as complex decentralized management, overmuch equipment in the equipment room, and low utilization rate

● As for conventional single-room data centers, there are data loss and service interruption. Hence, it is necessary to deploy dual equipment rooms or build active-active data centers as required to improve service continuity and ensure data reliability and integrity

III. Active-active data center construction solution for small- and medium-sized hospitals

After considering the planning of information construction of small- and medium-sized hospitals and their current service planning, we propose the following solution.

For the new campus, a new system platform will be constructed, which helps form an active-active data center together with the original campus, to ensure the reliability of the system platform and the continuity of the service system.

IV. Advantages of the solution

● Open standard, common architecture, and advanced technologies

Dedicated high-speed networks are used for storage sharing between application servers. Based on the high-speed replication of data between storage devices, the whole platform enables unified management and O&M. The platform is an open platform, which ensures effective interconnection between various devices.

● Well performance and scalability

The mainstream architecture of the data centers in the two campuses is fiber channel storage area network (FC SAN) architecture, which is connected via optical fiber links. Optical fiber features strong interference immunity, long transmission distance, and fast transmission speed, which can effectively satisfy the high concurrency access requirements of the hospital in a certain period of time. Based on the SAN architecture, the solution has high scalability. With the improvement of the hospital's grade and the growing number of application systems, the capacity of the server or storage device can be expanded at any time without changing the original architecture, enabling a smooth upgrade of the platform.

● End-to-end product line and thorough support services

H3C provides rich and comprehensive product lines for your selection to meet different needs and to fit into different forms of servers and storage products. Moreover, H3C provides comprehensive support services to ensure stable, reliable, and efficient operation of the user's application platform.

Cases:

The People's Hospital of Liuyang, Xingsha Hospital of Changsha County, Ningbo Women and Children's Hospital, Wuxue No. 1 People's Hospital, Changzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention