Kettering Medical Center Network Relies on GoldenGate(R) Solutions to Provide Continuous Availability of Critical Patient Data.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- GoldenGate Transactional Data Management Solutions Support Continuous Operations for Accessing Critical Patient Data Through Major Application Migration GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that Kettering Medical Center Kettering Medical Center (KMC) is located in Kettering, Ohio, United States. Its network of area facilities, known as Kettering Health Network, also includes Grandview Hospital (an osteopathic teaching hospital) located in Dayton; Sycamore Hospital, in the southern suburb of Network (KMCN KMCN Kettering Medical Center Network ), an award-winning, comprehensive healthcare network, has deployed GoldenGate solutions to support continuous operations of their mission-critical patient data management system -- the GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. Carecast(TM) application. KMCN turned to GoldenGate to address the migration of their patient data during a major application upgrade. A growing number of healthcare organizations are leveraging GoldenGate transactional data management solutions to facilitate seamless migrations and upgrades, specifically to GE Healthcare's Carecast(TM) enterprise clinical system. Today, in conjunction with healthcare applications partner GE Healthcare, GoldenGate solutions support continuous operations for critical clinical information systems (CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S ) applications across all five KMCN hospitals and area clinics -- more than 52 facilities in total. In the past, to perform maintenance, application upgrades and other system tasks, the IT team was forced to schedule windows of downtime. But as the number of users and the volumes of data on the system increased, the regular maintenance windows became inadequate to accomplish everything, and the performance of the production system began to suffer. "GoldenGate was instrumental in the upgrade to Carecast(TM) by rapidly transforming the data and bringing the new systems online with as little downtime as possible," explained Dan Townsend, Technical Integration Manager for Kettering. "Because of GoldenGate's unobtrusive change data capture technology, our team was able to accomplish the entire upgrade without creating interruption or response issues on the production sites." Townsend added, "For the extended network of hospitals, clinics and health clinics, it remained 'business as usual.'" More and more healthcare organizations today are upgrading their infrastructure to support disaster tolerance efforts due to stricter government requirements. However, the risk of significant downtime during a system migration is troubling because patient data must be available around the clock. In a healthcare environment, patient safety takes priority over all other issues, and inaccurate or delayed data can literally mean the difference between life and death. Kettering joins a growing roster of healthcare organizations, which includes Montefiore Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, New York, is the university hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The hospital, named after Moses Montefiore, is one of the 50 largest employers in New York State [1]. , Thomas Jefferson University It began as Jefferson Medical College in 1824. On July 1, 1969 the institution officially became Thomas Jefferson University. The university is made up of three colleges:
"Today, more than ever, IT plays an active role in ensuring patient safety and improving quality of care within the healthcare provider," said Barry Runyon, Research Director with Gartner. "The integrity of patient data is part of that responsibility. Continuous operations are critical to ensuring the accuracy and availability of patient information." "The need for real-time access to critical patient data is now more important than ever for healthcare institutions as they strive to improve their services through new technologies," said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate Software. "The biggest challenge for a major system migration is the risk of lengthy downtime, and it's a risk that most hospitals can't afford. GoldenGate solutions minimize downtime. GoldenGate is proud to help healthcare organizations in the management of their patient data and the improvement of the quality of care." About GoldenGate Software GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. GoldenGate provides technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data in real time across major databases and environments. Fortune 500 companies use GoldenGate solutions to manage critical initiatives including high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , disaster tolerance and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. integration. Customers include Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative Worldwide, GE Healthcare, MySQL AB, Teradata, a division of NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , and HP. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com. |
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