IBM Systems Magazine, Power Systems - AIX digital edition - April/May 2009 - (Page 11) A MEDICAL NECESSITY ProHealth Care improves backup and recovery processes by deploying a near real-time mirroring solution BY JIM UTSLER n the past (and in some cases, still), personal medical records were recorded on paper and stored in filing cabinets. With recent IT advancements and increasing medical-industry regulation, much of that information is now digital. This allows for easy access to patient charts and critical medical information, includ ing, for example, t he resu lts of medical tests, details on shor t-ter m or ongoing medical conditions and lists of prescriptions drugs. In IT-savvy medical institutions, this t ype of digital record keeping also allows physicians to share patient information with each other as bits and bytes rather than scribbled and hard-to-read notes, hand-delivered X-rays and other imaging results. If all of this high-tech support system were to crash— and the proper disaster-recovery processes and procedures weren’t in place—all of that data could be lost and the results could literally be life threatening. Thankfully, most medical organizations have taken pains to ensure this doesn’t happen. In the case of ProHealth Care, this meant reducing its reliance on tape backups and instead using near real-time system mirroring with EchoStream for AIX* from Vision Solutions. This allowed the health I system to ensure patient records—including personal medical records, billing information and mission-critical applications—are almost immediately available to users if a system meltdown occurs. A SINGLE SOURCE Based in Waukesha, Wis., ProHealth has provided medical services to residents of Waukesha County and surrounding communities for nearly a century. Of course, it’s grown since its inception and now has more than 6,000 employees—including doctors, nurses, care providers and support staff— making it the largest employer in the county. “When I first started working here 21 years ago, there was just one hospital and a couple of clinics,” notes David Gates, team leader, DBA/systems administrator with ProHealth. “So we’ve grown quite a bit since then, whether through natural expansion or acquisitions, including the recent purchase of a physicians group. We were at around 5,000 employees, but now we’re at about 6,000 as of the beginning of the year.” ProHealth’s primar y locations include Wau k e s h a M e m or i a l H o s pi t a l a n d Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital, as well as 26 ProHealth Care medical associates clinics, several assisted- and indepen- PHO TOGR APH Y B Y JOH N N IEN HUIS AP RIL/MA Y 2 009 i bms ystemsmag . com /aix 11 http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/aix Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IBM Systems Magazine, Power Systems - AIX digital edition - April/May 2009 IBM Systems Magazine, Power Systems — AIX digital edition - April/May 2009 Editor's Desk: High-Flying Security Focus of Storage: Solid-State Disks Will Become Integral to Many Enterprise Storage Infrastructures Case Study: ProHealth Care Improves Backup and Recovery Processes by Deploying a Near Real-time Mirroring Solution. Cover Story: High-availability Offerings for Power Systems Running AIX Help Guarantee a Resilient Infrastructure. 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