Big Data Enhances Hospital’s Patient Care
customer
Located in the Lujiazui area, this hospital is a comprehensive health institution providing medical treatment, disease prevention, professional education, and research. The 850-bed hospital is one of the largest healthcare providers in the Pudong New District, employing 22 PhD tutors, 65 masters degree supervisors, and other senior healthcare professionals. The hospital provides up to 1.4 million outpatient services, 25,000 inpatient services, and 100,000 emergency treatments a year.
“Oracle’s business solutions streamlined the integration of our hospital’s management systems, lowered overall complexity and costs, enabled intersystem data exchange and connections, and made it easier to-share patient data”
challenges
- Integrate hospital management systems to enable information such as doctor and technician schedules to be shared between different clinical and technical departments
- Enable staff to improve the use of hospital resources by analyzing doctor and technician workloads and the use of medical equipment
- Lower system development and maintenance costs
solutions
- Engaged Oracle Gold Partner Shanghai Yanhua Smartech to integrate disparate systems using Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Service Bus, and to build an analysis system using Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Essbase
- Facilitated a smooth information exchange between clinical and technical departments using the Oracle platform, facilitating up to 100 system queries per second
- Enabled hospital management to analyze doctor and technician workloads, allowing accurate schedules that ensure a health professional is always available to treat patients
- Optimized the use of medical equipment and avoided scheduling conflicts
- Cut system development workload by 50%
- Expect to explore the use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Essbase to analyze patients’ prescription rates for preventing drug misuse and analyzing prescription trends