Case Study: Peking University People's Hospital

First hospital in China to achieve HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

Peking University People's Hospital

Peking University People's Hospital was founded in 1918. It was the first comprehensive Western medicine hospital in China to be funded and managed by Chinese people. It is a modern, comprehensive, tertiary A-level hospital that integrates medical treatment, teaching, and scientific research. The hospital has 3 main medical campuses, employing more than 4,800 staff.

Hospital Overview

  • •   HIMSS Stage 7 in 2014 (1st in China and 2nd in Asia), No.8 in the annual Chinese hospital ranking
  • •   Three main medical campuses with 4000+ beds, handling 18,000 outpatient visits daily
  • •   Odin Engine Cluster Edition processed over 43 million messages daily in 2023, with volume continuting to grow, load testing of 430 million messages daily

Challenges

Over 10 years ago, Peking University People’s Hospital initially chose a globally renowned Enterprise Service Bus product, despite its shockingly high implementation cost, to meet their needs. As years passed and the healthcare industry evolved with new standards and requirements, significant challenges emerged, including:

  • •   Unexpected downtimes with complex maintenance processes
  • •   Huge Ongoing costs including maintenance cost, integrating new applications
  • •   Not designed for health, lacking support for health standards including FHIR

Why choosing Odin Engine Cluster Edition?

  • •   Supporting active multi-node clustering for scaling and resilience, no single point of failure
  • •   API Services + Workflow Engines, enabling easy management, monitoring and implementation of modern workflows
  • •   Native support for health standards including FHIR

 

Achievements

  • •   Upgrade/transformation of core systems across three hospital campuses at lightning-fast speed due to extremely easy usage, within 4.5 months
  • •   Replaced/added 46 systems and seamlessly integrated them with 74 existing systems, with the number of systems continuing to grow.
  • •   Centrally manage 700+ interfaces from 49 vendors across the entire hospital.

 

 Odin Engine Cluster Edition