IBM SOA at Catholic Medical Center - Healthcare Industry

IBM SOA - Catholic Medical Center chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML over legacy DBMS to support its integrated healthcare platform.

IBM Service Oriented Architecture SOA in Healthcare Industry - Catholic Medical Center, IBM SOA Customer

“Now that we can store XML data directly on our IBM DB2 9 data server, we have been able to streamline access to medical records and improve care to our patients—all while reducing storage costs with the deep compression feature.” —Lee Hungu, Team Manager of Development Service Team, Catholic Medical Center - —Lee Hungu, Team Manager of Development Service Team, Catholic Medical Center

Customer: Catholic Medical Center
Deployment Country: Korea - Republic of
IBM Business Partner: Daou Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Solution: Database Management, Enabling Business Flexibility, Information On Demand, Leveraging Information, Openness, Service Oriented Architecture

Overview

Catholic Medical Center is an association of eight large hospitals and 23 other Catholic medical facilities across the Republic of Korea. The organization is a leading provider of a variety of medical services in Korea including cancer treatment, cardiology and rehabilitation.

Business need: To improve the quality and timeliness of patient care, managers at Catholic Medical Center decided to integrate the organization’s healthcare platforms onto a unified health information system. With this change, staff could do away with outdated paper information processes and reduce patient management costs. Ideally, the new system would also offer heightened system availability and a flexible architecture that could support future data sources and formats.

Solution: Looking for an offering that would be cheaper, more flexible and more reliable than their existing Oracle and Sybase database systems ,they migrated patient files to an IBM DB2® 9 data server. With the IBM software’s ability to support pureXML data, the client was able to easily integrate its operations. The program acts as a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that unifies hospital systems, including electronic medical records and picture-archiving communications systems files.

Benefits: • Simplifies data access methods while increasing system flexibility as a result of DB2 9’s ability to support native XML data • Provides a lower total cost of ownership than the previous DBMS solution by leveraging the deep compression capability of the DB2 9 data server, minimiz­ing storage requirements • Raises the availability and accessibility of patient information with the IBM platform’s HADR functionality