HERMES Medical Solutions Helps Save Lives with MySQL

HERMES Medical Solutions was established in
1976 in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a leading innovator in medical imaging
hardware/software products for health care facilities worldwide. HERMES
delivers a plethora of different medical imaging solutions to optimize hospital
workflow.

HERMES advanced algorithms make it
possible to detect the smallest changes under therapies important and necessary to optimize different therapeutic methods
and doses.

Challenges

• Fighting illness & disease requires
  state-of-the-art imaging modalities and software in order to diagnose
  accurately, stage disease appropriately and select the best treatment
  available.
• Selecting and implementing a new database
  platform that would deliver the needed performance, reliability, security and
  flexibility required by the high-end medical solutions offered by HERMES.

Solution

• Decision to migrate from in-house database to
  an embedded SQL database powering the HERMES products, delivered either as
  software, integrated hardware and software solutions, or via the cloud in a
  software-as-a-service configuration.
• Evaluation of several databases and selection
  of MySQL based on its high performance, ease of use and integration, and low Total
  Cost of Ownership.
• On average, between 4 and 12 Terabytes of data
  are stored in MySQL databases underpinning the HERMES solutions. The data
  generated by each medical study is indeed stored during 10 years or more after
  the treatment was performed.
• MySQL-based HERMES systems also allow doctors
  worldwide to conduct new drug research projects leveraging the large amount of
  medical data collected.
• Hospitals and other HERMES customers worldwide highly
  value the “zero administration” capabilities and reliability of MySQL, enabling
  them to perform medical analysis without any downtime.
• Relying on MySQL as their embedded database,
  the HERMES team has been able to increase their focus on further developing
  their clinical applications.
• HERMES Medical Solutions could leverage the Oracle
  Financing payment plan to spread its investment over time and make the MySQL
  choice even more valuable.

“MySQL has proven to be an excellent database
choice for us. We offer high-end medical solutions, and MySQL delivers the
reliability, security and performance such solutions require.” Jan Bertling, CEO.