Use of a multiserver architecture for enabling access to a complex
medical information system at any time and from anywhere
Provision of greater computational power at minimum cost for a
community-wide primary healthcare service has been achieved in Kondopoga, in
the Karelia region of northwest Russia. Dr Alexander V Gusev explains
how it was done.
ABSTRACT
The article outlines the multiserver architecture of a complex medical
information system (MIS), focusing on the advantages of dividing workloads
between several servers by physical division of databases and increasing MIS
accessibility and efficiency by mirroring. The upgrading of the
geographically distributed MIS database (DB) in order to increase the
system’s efficiency and provide offline access to the MIS DB is described.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2006; 23(10): 22-4. |
