Accelerating Smart Maternal and Child Healthcare Informatization with SmartX ECP

As the refinement of services at Foshan Women and Children Hospital continuously improves and patient service demands increase, hospital information services must innovate alongside hospital development, leading to rapid growth in system resource requirements. The hospital's original centralized storage faced performance bottlenecks; meeting future performance needs would have required large-scale, one-time investments in higher-end controllers. Furthermore, with the increasing number of virtual machines, traditional storage would require a massive accumulation of hard drives to maintain high IO capability. This approach is not only costly but also consumes significant machine room space and power, resulting in a highly complex overall architecture.

In 2017, the hospital established a dedicated working group to conduct equipment selection and testing for the new campus data center. Following extensive research and testing, the hospital determined that SmartX ECP met expectations. In 2018, the working group performed practical business testing of an active-active HCI model across two server rooms at the old campus, ultimately deciding to adopt SmartX ECP. Regarding vendor selection, the hospital focused on product stability, O&M convenience, and localized service capabilities.

Since 2019, the hospital has implemented a VMware + SMTX OS deployment, progressively migrating business systems such as PACS, Critical Care Maternal and Child Healthcare, RIS, and DRGS to the platform. Simultaneously, the hospital established an Oracle database disaster recovery resource pool and utilized fast cloning technology to generate development and testing databases for core systems like HIS and EMR, reducing the process time from 20–30 minutes to just 1–2 minutes. With many systems—including HIS, EMR, and Clinical Pathways—developed in-house, the deployment of SmartX ECP has significantly enhanced overall R&D and testing efficiency.