CASE STUDY
Building a reliable , scalable IT foundation for an integrated digital health network
The Ministry of Health focused its technology search on open source . “ Open source code is advantageous for public entities , because it helps us take advantage of our budget and other resources more efficiently , including developing in-house skills ,” said Núñez .
It considered solutions from a variety of leading technology providers , such as Amazon , Google and Microsoft . But due to government regulations , it needed a solution that could provide the right capabilities and performance while running on ARSAT ( Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales
ABOUT THE ARGENTINE MINISTRY OF HEALTH updated from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to Red Hat OpenShift 4 to simplify application installation and improve resiliency for distributed applications with the service mesh component .
Running on Red Hat OpenShift , Red Hat Fuse , part of Red Hat Integration and Red Hat Data Grid connects healthcare providers ’ databases with the ministry ’ s federated database system . Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) capabilities to its reliability engineers for faster application testing .
Since 2018 , more than 6 million patients from the country ’ s 24 provinces have been registered in the national digital health network . Its work to use enterprise open source technology to improve national healthcare earned the Ministry of Health recognition as a winner of a Red Hat Innovation Award in 2020 and 2021 .
The Argentine Ministry of Health is a public entity responsible for addressing administrative issues related to health service , including epidemiology , vaccination campaigns , border health control , registration of health professionals and a drug bank , to guarantee the accessibility and quality of medical attention to the whole of society .
THIS NEW DIGITAL HEALTH NETWORK HELPS ARGENTINA CONTINUE TO STREAMLINE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE .
Sociedad Anónima ), the government ’ s main data center . Red Hat ’ s enterprise open source technology met this need , backed by expert , hands-on support .
Through the Red Hat Container Adoption Journey engagement , the ministry worked with Red Hat Consulting and a Red Hat technical account manager to define the project and build its new architecture , as well as receive related training .
Connecting care providers for holistic healthcare insight
Established container-based integration for improved patient care The Ministry of Health ’ s national digital health network has successfully united disparate data sources using container and microservices technology to help improve the patient experience .
With a central application programming interface ( API ), any healthcare center in the country can request and transfer information , verified by a patient crossidentification system . Providers in different cities can collaborate to ensure patients who travel for treatment for chronic conditions will be seen by doctors who have access to their complete health information .
Each province and private institution retains autonomy over their local systems while the national government defines standards and maintains the central infrastructure .
This new digital health network helps Argentina continue to streamline the patient experience . For example , the country is implementing a national digital prescription standard to let doctors create prescriptions , check for interactions with prescriptions from other providers and share them digitally with pharmacies .
The core of the IT infrastructure supporting Argentina ’ s national digital health system is Red Hat OpenShift running on premise on ARSAT servers . After initial deployment , the ministry
Improved efficiency with scalable , reliable platform and new work approaches Automation of routine provisioning tasks with Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform has
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