Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Case Studies Peking University Third Hospital Enhances Patient Care with Hitachi IoT Solutions

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Peking University Third Hospital Enhances Patient Care with Hitachi IoT Solutions

Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Education Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Challenge	Peking University Third Hospital, a comprehensive tertiary hospital established in 1958, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The hospital, which integrates healthcare, education, scientific research, preventative healthcare, rehabilitation, and health management, was struggling to meet the increasing demand for services due to its growth, new scientific research, and the global pandemic. The ageing IT assets led to performance degradation and reliability issues, increasing the workload for the IT teams. The hospital's disaster recovery capabilities were also insufficient to support business continuity. The hospital needed a better data infrastructure to respond quickly to patients and consistently deliver a good experience. Read More
About Customer	Peking University Third Hospital is a comprehensive tertiary hospital founded in 1958. The hospital integrates healthcare, education, scientific research, preventative healthcare, rehabilitation, and health management. The hospital was facing challenges with its ageing IT infrastructure, which was struggling to meet the increasing demand for services due to the hospital's growth, new scientific research, and the global pandemic. The hospital needed a better data infrastructure to respond quickly to patients and consistently deliver a good experience. Read More
Solution	After conducting thorough market research, Peking University Third Hospital chose to implement the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series to replace its legacy storage systems. The hospital established active-active data centers based on the Hitachi Global-active device (GAD), which maximized resource utilization and provided better access to backend storage resources. This approach significantly improved the performance and availability of business applications. The Hitachi solution ensured high availability for vital hospital-wide solutions such as Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), and VMware platforms. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Education

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Challenge

Peking University Third Hospital, a comprehensive tertiary hospital established in 1958, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The hospital, which integrates healthcare, education, scientific research, preventative healthcare, rehabilitation, and health management, was struggling to meet the increasing demand for services due to its growth, new scientific research, and the global pandemic. The ageing IT assets led to performance degradation and reliability issues, increasing the workload for the IT teams. The hospital's disaster recovery capabilities were also insufficient to support business continuity. The hospital needed a better data infrastructure to respond quickly to patients and consistently deliver a good experience.

About Customer

Peking University Third Hospital is a comprehensive tertiary hospital founded in 1958. The hospital integrates healthcare, education, scientific research, preventative healthcare, rehabilitation, and health management. The hospital was facing challenges with its ageing IT infrastructure, which was struggling to meet the increasing demand for services due to the hospital's growth, new scientific research, and the global pandemic. The hospital needed a better data infrastructure to respond quickly to patients and consistently deliver a good experience.

Solution

After conducting thorough market research, Peking University Third Hospital chose to implement the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series to replace its legacy storage systems. The hospital established active-active data centers based on the Hitachi Global-active device (GAD), which maximized resource utilization and provided better access to backend storage resources. This approach significantly improved the performance and availability of business applications. The Hitachi solution ensured high availability for vital hospital-wide solutions such as Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), and VMware platforms.

Impact #1	The implementation of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series brought about significant operational improvements for Peking University Third Hospital. The active-active approach ensured high availability for vital hospital-wide solutions such as Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), and VMware platforms. The hospital experienced better application performance with faster response times, greater storage scalability to meet current and future needs, reduced maintenance windows and planned downtime, and a smaller data center footprint. The enhanced data security provided by the new system also ensured a more secure and reliable IT environment, enabling the hospital to meet the growing demands for hospital services while delivering better patient care.

Impact #1

The implementation of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series brought about significant operational improvements for Peking University Third Hospital. The active-active approach ensured high availability for vital hospital-wide solutions such as Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), and VMware platforms. The hospital experienced better application performance with faster response times, greater storage scalability to meet current and future needs, reduced maintenance windows and planned downtime, and a smaller data center footprint. The enhanced data security provided by the new system also ensured a more secure and reliable IT environment, enabling the hospital to meet the growing demands for hospital services while delivering better patient care.

Benefit #1	Doubled performance to improve the user experience
Benefit #2	Reduced data center footprint by 50% to free up space and resources
Benefit #3	Improved storage operation and maintenance efficiency to reduce costs

Benefit #1

Doubled performance to improve the user experience

Benefit #2

Reduced data center footprint by 50% to free up space and resources

Benefit #3

Improved storage operation and maintenance efficiency to reduce costs

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Peking University Third Hospital Enhances Patient Care with Hitachi IoT Solutions

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