Smart Healthcare Networks: Pioneering the Future of Medical Infrastructure
Chapter 1:
Digital Health Pioneers
Chapter 2: Imaging Speed Revolution
The Digital Pulse of Healthcare: Building China's Future-Ready Hospital Networks
In modern healthcare, a hospital's network is its digital heartbeat. Across China's hospitals, digitisation isn't a one-time event, it's a continuous journey. Every new medical breakthrough and evolving technology demands seamless integration, bit by bit. This underscores the vital need for a truly robust, future-ready network, one that is inherently flexible, scalable, and reliable.
With deep roots and extensive experience in China's hospital IT infrastructure, Ruijie is redefining what's possible. We're collaborating closely with healthcare institutions, building foundational networks that support continuous adaptation and high-quality service delivery. Empowering China's hospitals with cutting-edge technology is key to delivering world-class care today and well into tomorrow.
The Evolving Network Demands of China's Hospitals
As China's healthcare industry delves deeper into informatisation, the demand for upgrades to the foundational network within hospitals is growing exponentially. This push for advanced digitalisation presents several pressing challenges that require immediate and intelligent solutions.
Flexible Deployment and Enhanced Patient Experience
To boost medical service efficiency and improve patient experience in clinics and wards, network deployment must be highly flexible. Traditional methods like frequent drilling and extensive cabling disrupt operations, while relying on basic switches introduces instability and complicates management.
Instant Access to Critical Medical Imaging
High-definition medical images are core to diagnosis and treatment, requiring instant access for clinical practice. A single scan can generate hundreds to thousands of images, often several gigabytes in size, and traditional networks, limited by speed, struggle with such large, concurrent access.
Streamlined Operations and Maintenance
As medical networks expand, their management becomes increasingly complex. Hospitals urgently need intelligent tools to monitor, diagnose, and optimise network performance efficiently, alongside ensuring security and compliance, which places immense pressure on IT departments.
Pioneering Digital Health: Hospitals Embrace the Future of Networking
Against the backdrop of increasing digital demands, Ruijie's Simplified Optical Ethernet (SOE) Solution has emerged as a transformative choice for numerous hospitals across China.
This advanced technology directly addresses the complex challenges of modern healthcare networks, proving its capability to deliver the robust, flexible, and reliable infrastructure required.
Let's delve into specific examples from medical IT professionals who have championed its implementation.
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Xiyuan Hospital Jinan Hospital – Automated O&M for Enhanced Intelligence
This hospital adopted the SOE Solution, leveraging innovative SDN technology to transition from reactive, high-cost operations to automated maintenance. This dramatically simplified equipment management, ensuring business continuity and significantly boosting the hospital's overall intelligence and service quality for high-quality development.
Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences Wuwei Cancer Hospital – Unprecedented Speed for Medical Imaging
Wuwei Cancer Hospital chose the SOE Solution, specifically utilising CWDM technology to enable 8 signals to transmit simultaneously over a single fiber. This delivered dedicated gigabit bandwidth to the desktop, allowing a 1GB high-definition medical image to load in just 5 seconds, a dramatic reduction from the original 5 minutes, representing a nearly 60-fold speed improvement for critical diagnostic workflows.
Shandong Linyi Third People's Hospital – Minimised Fault Impact for Operational Stability
Shandong Linyi Third People's Hospital implemented the SOE Solution by deploying optical switches directly into individual rooms. This design confines any network fault to a small, independent space like a single consultation room, significantly minimising service disruption and greatly reducing the hospital's operational risks.
Third Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine – Flexible Expansion for Dynamic Service Adaptation
This hospital implemented the SOE Solution by extending switches into patient rooms, enabling dynamic network expansion and flexible upstream bandwidth. The network now adapts seamlessly to evolving service demands, simplifies departmental restructuring, and allows for efficient resource reallocation, supporting a truly patient-centric approach to hospital management.
Beihai People's Hospital, Guangxi – Enhanced Security and Efficiency for Clinical Operations
Beihai People's Hospital utilised the SOE Solution to build an all-optical Ethernet architecture without altering its existing Ethernet network. This native Ethernet structure supports east-west traffic, mitigating risks and latency in critical areas like operating rooms, thus ensuring efficient and smooth clinical operations and boosting the hospital's overall development.
Forging the Future of Healthcare Networks
Ruijie has consistently pioneered the optical-Ethernet pathway, driving continuous innovation in network solutions from architecture to deployment. Our cutting-edge CWDM technology has been a game-changer, integrating with its optical-Ethernet architecture to create Layer 2 networks with passive transparent aggregation and zero maintenance in Extra-Low Voltage (ELV) rooms.
Further tailoring our third-generation SOE Solution for hospitals, we've integrated network expansion units supporting PoE and wall-mounted deployment. This dramatically simplifies in-room installation and power, delivering simple connections, high security, and an excellent user experience essential for smart hospitals.
This innovation, deeply rooted in understanding the healthcare industry's needs, has solidified Ruijie's role as a trusted partner in digital transformation. We remain committed to exploring diverse application scenarios, driving the comprehensive upgrade of medical informatisation across China.
Chapter 2:
Transforming Local Governance
Wuwei Cancer Hospital: the Digital Leap
As a beacon of advanced oncology in China, Wuwei Cancer Hospital is home to the nation's pioneering heavy ion therapy system. This cutting-edge treatment, however, generates massive high-definition medical images, pushing their traditional network to its limits. To truly unlock the potential of its world-class clinical services and ensure seamless data flow, the hospital faced a critical decision.
Wuwei's Battle Against Network Bottlenecks
Despite its cutting-edge medical capabilities, Wuwei Cancer Hospital grappled with significant network infrastructure limitations. Its pioneering heavy ion therapy system, along with other advanced services, exposed critical bottlenecks. Overcoming these core challenges became essential to fully leverage their advanced equipment and deliver seamless, world-class patient care.
Performance Bottlenecks
Their aging 100Mbps Ethernet network struggled with multi-gigabyte high-definition medical images crucial for heavy ion therapy. New demands from telemedicine and surgical robots also created significant network continuity and packet loss issues.
Limited Network Expansion
Original network designs couldn't accommodate new information points, leading to switch cascading and shared bandwidth. Restricted cable tray space further hindered expansion, complicating the integration and power supply for growing IoT medical devices.
O&M Burden
Managing the hospital's vast 213,180 sqm campus with traditional operations and maintenance (O&M) was highly inefficient. On-site fault location consumed significant time and resources, creating immense pressure on the IT team and hindering responsiveness.
Ensuring Stable Operations
Maintaining uninterrupted network stability was critical for all daily medical services, from asset management to remote diagnostics. The hospital urgently required a highly professional and responsive project team, coupled with an efficient, visual O&M system.
"Ruijie's Simplified Optical Ethernet Solution makes expansion incredibly convenient. When adding new terminals, there's no need to pull cables all the way from the ELV room like with traditional copper, we can simply run cables directly from within the room to the desktop."
— Shang De, Director of IT Department, Wuwei Cancer Hospital
Strategic Infrastructure Revolutionising Healthcare Networks
To overcome these profound network challenges, Wuwei Cancer Hospital undertook a strategic transformation, seeking an infrastructure that could match its advanced medical ambitions. After a thorough evaluation of various technologies, they decisively chose Ruijie's Simplified Optical Ethernet (SOE) Solution. This pivotal decision established a new foundation for the hospital's network.
Robust Core Network
The new foundational network leverages two Ruijie core switches at its heart. These powerful devices utilise VSU virtualization technology to ensure highly stable and secure data transmission across the hospital. This robust core forms a reliable backbone for all critical operations.
High-Capacity, Resilient Backbone
The network's backbone is built upon 10 Gigabit fiber, engineered with reserved 40/100G expansion capabilities for future growth. Furthermore, dual-link transmission is implemented across this backbone to significantly enhance network reliability, creating a robust and dependable data highway.
Seamless Fiber-to-Room Access
At the access layer, fiber-to-the-room connectivity is deployed, linking directly to minimalist optical access switches. This ensures that all terminal information points, from patient rooms to diagnostic areas are seamlessly and reliably connected to the network nearby, optimising access and performance.
Advanced Network Enhancements
Beyond these core architectural elements, the SOE Solution incorporated key enhancements to meet the hospital's unique needs. This included CWDM technology for efficient fiber utilisation, SDN for intelligent O&M capabilities, and integrated Wi-Fi 6 APs with PoE for seamless IoT deployment, addressing evolving demands comprehensively.
"Under the high-quality delivery of Ruijie's service team, the SOE Solution has built a high-speed, stable, and reliable network highway for our hospital's informatisation. It has fully guaranteed the efficient and stable operation of medical services in our Heavy Ion Center."
— Professor Guan Zhaoyu, Vice President, Wuwei Cancer Hospital
Transforming Care: Tangible Outcomes of Network Upgrade
The strategic deployment of the SOE Solution at Wuwei Cancer Hospital directly addressed its critical network challenges, translating technical innovation into tangible operational improvements and enhanced patient care. The hospital now experiences a new era of digital efficiency and reliability, directly benefiting those it serves.
Rapid Diagnosis, Better Outcomes
The SOE Solution dramatically improves the efficiency of medical image processing, meaning quicker diagnoses for patients. A 1GB high-definition medical image now loads in just 5 seconds, down from 5 minutes. This 60x speed improvement directly accelerates critical diagnostic workflows, leading to faster, more precise treatment planning and better patient outcomes.
Innovation Directly to Patients
The new network's flexible nature allows for 5x faster deployment of new services and seamless IoT integration. This means patients gain quicker access to innovative medical applications, from smart monitoring to personalised care delivery. The hospital can rapidly roll out cutting-edge services, ensuring patients benefit from the latest advancements without delay.
Uninterrupted Patient Care
By implementing the SOE Solution, the hospital achieved zero maintenance in ELV rooms, eliminating potential disruptions and fire risks. Fault recovery within 30 minutes and a 50% boost in O&M efficiency mean critical systems are always available. This unwavering reliability ensures uninterrupted patient care and constant access to vital medical information for clinicians.
Sustaining High-Quality Care
Wuwei Cancer Hospital now provides unwavering network stability crucial for critical operations like heavy ion therapy, directly impacting patient safety. The "ten-year future-proof" design safeguards their investment, ensuring the hospital can seamlessly adopt future medical technologies, providing consistent, high-quality care and life-saving treatments for decades to come.
Setting a New Benchmark for
Smart Healthcare
Through its strategic embrace of tailored technology, Wuwei Cancer Hospital has forged a multi-layered, innovative, and open smart hospital. This achievement not only sets a compelling new benchmark but also serves as a vital demonstration for other institutions pursuing digital transformation, significantly contributing to the dawn of a new era in intelligent healthcare.