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ICT systems used in the health industry typically have the following important characteristics:
  • Large national/global networks, often supplied by multiple network service providers
  • Applications hosted on high-end servers with unique performance characteristics, e.g. mainframe systems and Sun Fire servers
  • Very large data and transaction volumes, comprising up to tens of millions of records
  • High resilience. The clinical users expect the system to available all the time. This requires highly resilient IT infrastructure
  • No data loss. Patient record information cannot be lost
  • Sub second response times. The clinical users expectations of the system are for sub-second response times, especially in life threatening emergencies
  • Standards such as HL7 messages which may impact response times
Capacitas can provide:
  • SLA Review and Assurance
  • Capacity Modelling and Planning
  • System Sizing
  • Cost Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • System Performance Review
If you wish to find out more about Capacitas services for the health industry please contact enquire@capacitas.co.uk.
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