Protecting patients with a rapid, uninterrupted medical infrastructure 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Providing all-flash 'ExtremeIO', scale-out NAS storage 'Isilon', and disaster recovery solution 'VPLEX'

EMC Korea (CEO Kim Kyung-jin) has newly built the Hospital Information System (HIS) for Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Changwon Hospital (President Hong Seong-hwa), a leading regional hub hospital in Masan-Changwon, Gyeongnam, based on its All Flash Array (AFA) 'ExtremeIO' and other products.

Through this, Samsung Changwon Hospital has acquired a top-tier data center infrastructure based on all-flash technology, achieving fast response times and zero (0) RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective).


In large hospitals like Samsung Changwon Hospital, a failure in the information system can not only disrupt core hospital operations such as medical treatment, medication, food service, and admissions/discharges, but also lead to potential risks such as medical accidents.

With the aim of providing the best medical services to patients, Samsung Changwon Hospital decided to establish an uninterrupted hospital information system that would not paralyze operations 24 hours a day even in the event of a failure, and conducted thorough benchmark tests on various solutions. As a result, we selected EMC Korea, which demonstrated the highest performance and stability best meeting the standard requirements, built a new system, and opened it last month.

Through this project, EMC elevated the service quality of Samsung Changwon Hospital's Hospital Information System (HIS), including PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and EMR (Electronic Medical Records), to the highest level in Korea. The EMR system, utilizing EMC's all-flash storage 'XtremIO,' contributed to reducing patient waiting times and improving diagnostic accuracy, with response speeds perceived by hospital staff improving by more than eight times. Furthermore, the efficiency of support departments was enhanced as overall hospital management information, such as real-time inventory tracking, is provided rapidly.

EMC's virtual storage solution 'VPLEX,' introduced alongside it, supports an uninterrupted hospital information system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with an active-active architecture. An uninterrupted hospital system is a rare occurrence in Korea and is the first case in the Yeongnam region. In addition, the introduction of EMC Isilon, a scale-out NAS storage, into the PACS system has enabled the efficient management of various unstructured data, such as MRI, CT, and X-rays, and has laid the foundation to flexibly cope with future data explosions.

Jang Young-deok, Head of the Information Support Team at Samsung Changwon Hospital, stated, "To build an IT infrastructure befitting a top-tier regional hub hospital in Korea, Samsung Changwon Hospital selected EMC Korea, which stood out for its solutions with outstanding performance and stability, as well as its deep understanding of medical infrastructure and thorough preparation." He added, "Based on the medical information system successfully launched through rigorous testing and a commitment to prioritizing patients, we will solidify our position as a leading hospital in the domestic medical industry."

"Unlike advanced medical facilities where all-flash-based synchronous, non-stop medical information systems are the mainstream, many Korean hospitals are still exposing patients to potential risks with conventional hard disk-based asynchronous infrastructure," said Kim Kyung-jin, CEO of EMC Korea. "EMC Korea's solutions, which guarantee stability and high performance, are the best way for medical institutions to protect patients."

EMC’s ExtremeIO, which played a key role in the new infrastructure for Samsung Changwon Hospital, is a market-leading product with a share of over 40% in the global AFA market (as of Q4 2015), characterized by sub-millisecond response latency and consistent high performance. It is suitable for workloads such as databases, analytics, server virtualization, and VDI (desktop virtualization), as well as block-type data, and provides the industry's only inline data compression and deduplication capabilities.