Sometimes I shake my head at the gadgets you can connect to the Internet these days. A basketball that tracks your shooting arc? A ”smart” fork that records your eating speed? No thanks.
But wearable medical devices? Now you’re talking – especially cardiac monitors. It makes a lot of sense to have those devices hooked up to the Internet of Things. One of ScaleArc’s newest customers, Spectocor, leverages continuous monitoring and exception-based reporting to deliver a better patient experience and outcome.
“Doctors have to be able to log in any time to pull down patients’ reports, so it’s vital that we maintain zero downtime, despite the heavy data load,” explains Joe Khan, CIO at Spectocor. And “heavy data load” is right! A typical patient’s monitoring lasts 30 days and generates 500 data points per second, creating billions of data records per study.
The devices relay the data over cellular networks, and then a combination of algorithmic applications and teams of EKG technicians analyze the data to build highly detailed, comprehensive reports. The ScaleArc software front ends the reports database to ensure it’s continuously available to physicians.
By leveraging ScaleArc, Spectocor has been able to:
- Scale infrastructure to handle 300% to 400% growth year over year
- Deliver zero downtime for its cardiac monitoring application
- Upgrade to SQL Server 2014, with AlwaysOn and scale out, with no code changes
- Focus application development resources on new functionality and lines of business rather than database optimization
- Adopt technologies that fit within the private cloud architecture, including the ability to support rapid deployment with no disruption to service
- Adhere to HIPAA compliance for patient data
You can read more about this fascinating zero downtime environment in the press release and case study detailing the Spectocor deployment.