Smart Healthcare Upgrade: GBase Database Powers Full Go-Live of the Information System at Suzhou Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Recently, the Suzhou Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine officially opened. To build a new information system aligned with the development needs of a smart hospital, the hospital partnered with GBase (General Data Technology Co., Ltd.) and leveraged the GBase database to achieve smooth migration and stable support of core business systems, successfully completing the upgrade of its digital infrastructure.
Project Core Requirements: Addressing Key Challenges in Smart Hospital Construction
Healthcare information systems demand extremely high levels of continuity, security, and stability. This project faced multiple challenges during the upgrade:
Stringent Business Continuity Requirements: The hospital must ensure system stability and high availability to meet business continuity demands. The migration must achieve minimal service disruption, or even a "zero-perception" switchover.
High Compatibility and Smooth Transition: The existing system was built on Oracle, with a large number of stored procedures, complex queries, and proprietary syntax, requiring maximum reduction in code rewriting and adaptation costs.
Full-stack Domestic Ecosystem Adaptation Pressure: The project required end-to-end support for domestically produced hardware, operating systems, and databases, posing a systemic test of the database’s compatibility, stability, and ecosystem integration capabilities.
High Concurrency and Performance Assurance: The new system must support real-time concurrent access by all departments across the hospital, and after data migration, maintain response speed and stability no lower than the original system.
Solution: A "High Compatibility + High Availability" Architecture for Smooth Migration and Stable Support
Achieving Smooth Oracle Migration with High Compatibility
Leveraging the GBase database's high compatibility with Oracle data types, SQL syntax, and various database objects, the project devised a minimal SQL rewrite plan to complete the database replacement. After migration, synchronized comparisons between the old and new systems, along with comprehensive regression and stress tests, verified that system functionality and stability matched the level of the original Oracle database.
Ensuring Continuity of Healthcare Services with a High-Availability Architecture
Using GBase’s primary deployment solution, the system can automatically switch nodes upon failure, effectively safeguarding the stability and continuity of core business services.
Full-Process Migration Support and Adaptation to China’s Domestic IT Ecosystem
The GBase database provided end-to-end technical support covering installation, deployment, data migration, and go-live drills. By leveraging GBase’s ability to integrate with a fully domestic platform of servers, storage, operating systems, and middleware, a secure and reliable domestic IT foundation was established.
The successful practice at Suzhou Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine not only solidified the data cornerstone for the hospital’s smart development but also demonstrated the reliable strength of GBase database in critical business scenarios of the healthcare industry. As a core sector vital to national economy and people's livelihoods, healthcare relies on information systems that are self-controlled, secure, and stable, directly impacting public health security and the health rights of the people.
In the future, GBase will continue to focus on the core needs of the healthcare industry, continuously optimizing product performance and solutions, and empowering more medical institutions with advanced data technology to achieve digital and smart transformation, injecting the core power of domestic databases into building a Healthy China.