Hospitals and medical practitioners have traditionally underinvested in information systems compared to other industries due to numerous challenges, such as interoperability, privacy, and business process pressure. But new market drivers—both political and economic—are forcing the healthcare industry to turn to IT to improve its effectiveness and efficiency. In fact, one of the top priorities in the healthcare industry is to broaden the use of electronic records and other health information technology to help reduce costs and dangerous medical errors and improve patient safety.

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MySQL is a cost-effective, reliable and proven database that enables healthcare providers, payers, as well as ISVs and System Integrators to automate the management of health information. That is why some of the leading solution providers including eClinicalWorks and MacPractice rely on MySQL for their database requirements.

MySQL enables these organizations to realize the benefits of numerous healthcare initiatives including:

• Practice Management Solutions including Computerized Practitioner Order Entry (CPOE) that automate patient and insurance billing, reports, eclaims, and scheduling to reduce costs.
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR)/ Electronic Health Record (EHR) for documenting full patient information such as demographics, medication lists and allergies to improve patient care.
• Monitoring Equipment such as cardiac equipment, fetal monitoring supplies and blood pressure monitoring systems that give caregivers a clear view of patient data and information.
• Digital Imaging Systems that streamline the process of capturing medical images, reduces costs over traditional systems, and improves clinical diagnosis with enhanced imagery.

The fundamental component behind these initiatives is the Clinical Data Repository (CDR), which requires a high-performance transactional database for processing patient information. MySQL enables organizations to quickly deliver modern, flexible healthcare solutions by providing significant benefits.

Additional Resources

White Papers

• White Paper: Guide to Choosing an Embedded Database
• MySQL 5.0's Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture
• A Look at MySQL 5.0 Performance Benchmarks

On Demand Webinars

• Embedding MySQL for OEMs
• Upgrading to MySQL 5.0 for OEMs and ISVs
• Best Practices for Securing MySQL 5.0
• MySQL Performance Tuning: Top 5 Tips

Customer Stories

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