YugabyteDB Underpins New Electronic Health Record System for Eight Million Catalans

Historically, health data management was siloed, with data held by care providers, insurance companies, and test equipment providers. This prevented a unified view of patient health data and timely access for new providers. 

To accelerate the modernization of the European healthcare industry, several countries and organizations developed EHRbase, an open source software backend for clinical application systems and electronic health records (EHR). 

Based on that vision, the Catalan Health Service asked the Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CTTI), the public company that manages and delivers telecommunications, computer systems and services for the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia), to develop a modern EHR system. CTTI required a highly scalable and resilient data platform to deliver on this vision of patient-centric health care. 

After an extensive review process, CTTI chose vitagroup, a German-based health technology specialist for vendor-independent digitalization, whose design included YugabyteDB Anywhere as the core transactional database layer. 

YugabyteDB Anywhere will serve as the key layer to store and unify all of the Catalan health records and support the concurrent access, updates, and use from healthcare professionals including hospitals and general practitioners.

The project will deliver an efficient and future-proof system to store and access healthcare data. By developing a standardized approach, they will accelerate new opportunities to work with relevant partners. More importantly, it will provide a complete overview of patients’ history and current health requirements to reshape and improve the overall healthcare space and the lives of their patients.