Nth Generation and Compaq Serve Children’s Hospital

The Challenge

With rapid growth in its caseload, an insatiable demand for high-tech patient services, and a fast-track merger with a neighboring hospital, the IS Department at Children’s Hospital in San Diego faced a daunting challenge. Who could help this 700 physician, 3,000 employee, 7x24 healthcare system meet its demanding information management, processing and storage requirements?

The Experts

Mary Hart, Compaq’s local Account Manager, recommended Nth Generation Computing, the leader in designing and implementing Compaq enterprise solutions. With over 20 years experience designing mission-critical enterprise solutions and with over 150 Storage Area Networks (SAN) installed nationwide, Nth Generation leads the industry in providing Compaq-based solutions to solve business problems. After thorough business and technical consultations with Children’s Hospital and an in-depth analysis, Nth Generation designed a high performance, high availability infrastructure that reduced costs, simplified system and data management, and decreased IT support requirements.

The Solution

used Compaq front end, application, and database servers to consolidate and organize the hospital’s business administration applications. Nth then created a data warehouse for storing and managing Children’s rapidly growing databases using a fibre-channel switched Compaq SAN. Finally, Nth Generation provided 7x24 backup services with a high speed Compaq Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) hosting four Compaq DLT tapes using Compaq’s Module Data Router (MDR) software.

Nth Generation’s Compaq solution for Children’s Hospital is based on open standards. This gives the hospital confidence to adopt the latest healthcare technologies and choose best-in-breed medical solutions as they are developed, knowing that their commitment to hospital-wide integration can be honored. In addition, Children’s new infrastructure will scale quickly to address the overwhelming growth and demand spikes facing one the nation’s leading pediatric trauma centers.

Nth University

Children’s Hospital also benefited from Nth Generation’s commitment to client education and knowledge transfer. Nth University was founded three years ago to offer comprehensive instructor-led training from the basics of information technology to advanced SAN architecture and implementation. Nth Generation has invested over a million dollars in this training facility in San Diego to provide students with the latest in technology for hands-on learning. Children’s Hospital has already sent three of IT employees through Nth University’s renowned Storage Area Networks classes.

The Bottom Line

Thanks to Nth Generation’s expertise and commitment to client service, Children’s Hospital has reduced costs while bringing order to a rapidly growing environment. Heterogeneous medical technologies can be adopted and managed across Children’s campus thanks to Compaq’s open architecture. Nth Generation’s knowledge and service coupled with Compaq technology have created a comprehensive healthcare business solution, enabling Children’s Hospital to become the #7 pediatric facility in the United States while handling 125 child trauma cases per month and providing care to more than 350,000 children in San Diego County.

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