Case Study of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. Source: Archdaily

The Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) is the first hospital
in the Asia-Pacific region to be fully digitalized and paperless. Established in
2003, SNUBH is a national medical research hospital and hosts a regional
medical center that provides general and emergency care to patients in the
area.
At SNUBH, the doctors use in-memory computing to improve preoperative
care with real-time feedback by featured products from SAP HANA and SAP
Data Services. With the digitalized big data service, doctors and nurses are
able to configure the systems with precise clinical information. Currently at
SNUBH, there are approximately 3,000 different end-user
configurations. This real-time data feedback reduced the time of
patient referral from 48-hours to 4-6 hours.
In 2006, SNUBH introduced the Hospital Information Exchange System for
easy sharing of patient records through big data. SNUBH has shared its
digitalized medical records with more than fifty primary clinic
hospitals up to year 2014. These data guides clinical decision-making,
diagnosis and management of individual patients for other clinic hospitals.
Through a combination of quantitative and quantitative data, SNUBH
combined research, clinical, and business data to take its operations and
quality of patient care to another level.

Wireless device and system used in SNUBH. Source: SNUBH Presentation on

Introduction of SNUBHs Healthcare System
As the potential of big data in medical environment is widely recognized,
Korean government actors and stakeholders are largely investing in big data
projects which help the advancement of big data research. These
efforts success will be determined by the expansion of technical capability in
effectively integrating and accurately analyzing the collected medical
information by taking a step-by-step approach with realistic expectations.