Digitizing Health Records: Overcome Barriers and Maximize Opportunities

Executive Overview Digitizing patient records helps healthcare organizations increase efficiency and improve patient care. Now, as part of President Obama's economic stimulus package, healthcare organizations can also receive financial benefits, and avoid penalties, by implementing digital record systems. For healthcare IT systems to live up to their true potential, however, they must maintain high levels of availability to ensure uninterrupted service delivery. Unfortunately, the most common approaches to providing continuous availability require too much downtime to recover from system outages and failures. In addition, they lack the ability to eliminate downtime necessary for planned outages such as migrations, upgrades, and maintenance. This white paper highlights how Oracle GoldenGate provides continuous availability for digital records—despite any type of interruption—to enable healthcare organizations to develop highly effective, trusted record systems that enhance patient care.