Changsha First People’s Hospital

Overview

Changsha First People’s Hospital

Country: China

Industry: Healthcare / Tertiary Grade-A General Hospital

Solution: Multi-Strategy Disaster Recovery Management Platform

Changsha First People’s Hospital is a large-scale, Grade-A tertiary general hospital integrating medical services, teaching, scientific research, preventive care, and public health emergency response. With the advancement of hospital digitalization, a wide range of core business systems such as PACS, OA, HRP, EMR, and LIS generated massive amounts of critical medical data requiring robust protection. The hospital sought to establish a disaster recovery center to ensure compliance with disaster recovery classification standards and guarantee the continuous operation of healthcare services.

Customer Challenge

• Multiple heterogeneous systems — PACS, OA, HRP, EMR, LIS, and HIS all required tailored disaster recovery approaches.
• Compliance — Needed to meet disaster recovery classification protection standards for healthcare.
• Data integrity & availability — Critical medical data demanded continuous protection and fast failover.
• Business continuity — Required minimal RPO/RTO to avoid disruption to patient care and hospital operations.

I2 Solution

Implemented a multi-strategy disaster recovery platform to unify protection across different systems.

• i2Availability: Delivered one-to-one disaster recovery high availability for OA, Outpatient, EMR, LIS, and PACS DB systems, achieving near-instant RPO failover.
• i2Active: Enabled real-time dual-active synchronization for HIS system databases, allowing standby-side query access and achieving RPO/RTO ≈ 0.
• Disaster Recovery Platform: Supported PACS system emergency takeover within 5 minutes, ensuring continuous imaging services.
• i2CDP: Provided real-time protection for all core hospital data, with recovery possible to any historical point in time.

Solution Effects

• Achieved comprehensive, multi-level disaster recovery protection across all hospital systems and data.
• Ensured compliance with healthcare disaster recovery classification standards.
• Realized seamless disaster recovery construction between the hospital’s main data center and the disaster recovery center.
• Greatly enhanced IT resilience, ensuring uninterrupted healthcare services and improved hospital governance.