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Oracle Health Applications Load Balancing with Progress Kemp LoadMaster

Help clinicians stay productive and keep patients connected with fast, reliable access to Oracle Health Applications.

 

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Why Load Balancing Matters for Oracle Health Application Environments

 

Healthcare organizations depend on Oracle Health applications to support clinical care, administrative operations and patient engagement. From electronic health records and patient portals to laboratory systems and revenue cycle workflows, clinicians and staff require fast, reliable access to critical information throughout the day.

As healthcare systems expand across hospitals, clinics, remote facilities and hybrid cloud environments, application demand continues to grow. The Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® platform helps healthcare organizations maintain application responsiveness, improve availability and strengthen resilience by intelligently managing traffic across Oracle Health environments.

 

 

 

 

Reliable Application Delivery for Oracle Health Applications

Oracle Health supports a broad range of healthcare workflows that organizations rely on every day. Application performance issues or downtime can impact patient care, clinician productivity and operational efficiency.
The LoadMaster solution helps organizations deliver a reliable Oracle Health experience through intelligent traffic management, health monitoring and high-availability capabilities.

Simple to Manage

Deploy and manage application delivery services through a centralized platform that simplifies operations and reduces administrative overhead.

Better Value

Achieve enterprise-grade availability, performance and scalability without the complexity and cost often associated with traditional ADC solutions.

World-Class Support

Leverage the expertise of the Progress support organization to help optimize application delivery and maintain critical healthcare services.

How LoadMaster Supports Oracle Health Availability and Performance

The LoadMaster load balancing solution provides intelligent application delivery and traffic management capabilities designed to help healthcare organizations improve Oracle Health application availability, performance and operational resilience.

Improve Application Availability

Improve Application Availability

Help clinicians and staff maintain access to patient information, documentation workflows, scheduling systems and administrative services during infrastructure failures and maintenance activities.

 

Enhance the User Experience

Deliver Consistent User Experience

Distribute workloads across available resources to support responsive application performance across healthcare facilities and user populations.

Support Business Continuity

Strengthen Business Continuity

Reduce downtime and support resilience through health monitoring, failover capabilities and highly available deployment architectures.

 

Scale

Scale Healthcare Applications Efficiently

Accommodate increasing numbers of users, facilities and patient interactions without sacrificing application performance.

Enhance the User Experience

Improve Access to Critical Workflows

Help provide reliable access to charting, scheduling, results review, patient communications and administrative functions.

Operational Simplicity

Centralize Application Delivery Operations

Consolidate traffic management, security and monitoring capabilities through a unified application delivery platform.

Key LoadMaster Capabilities for Oracle Health Applications

High Availability for Mission-Critical Radiology PACS

High Availability

Help reduce single points of failure by deploying LoadMaster in a highly available configuration designed to support uninterrupted access to critical healthcare applications.

Performance

Optmize Application Performance

Distribute user requests across multiple application resources to help optimize performance, improve infrastructure utilization and maintain a consistent user experience.
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Application Visibility and Analytics

Gain insight into application traffic and server health with LoadMaster 360 to help identify performance issues, troubleshoot problems faster and make informed infrastructure decisions.

 

Multi-Site and Remote Access

Security and Access Management

Maintain secure and seamless access to Oracle Health environments through SSL/TLS encryption, pre-authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), Active Directory integration and granular traffic control policies, including Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection.
Faster Performance for Imaging Workflows

Application Health Monitoring

Continuously monitor backend application services and automatically direct traffic to healthy resources when issues are detected.

 

Operational Simplicity

Zero-downtime Maintenance

Perform maintenance activities and system upgrades with minimal disruption by gracefully directing traffic to available resources during planned changes.

 

Site Resilience and Disaster Recovery

LoadMaster Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) intelligently directs users to the healthiest available Oracle Health application deployment, helping maintain application availability during site outages, maintenance events or unexpected disruptions. Automated site failover and traffic steering help organizations strengthen disaster recovery readiness, support business continuity objectives and provide clinicians with reliable access to EHR systems when and where they are needed most.

Supporting the Full Oracle Health Ecosystem

Healthcare organizations often rely on multiple Oracle Health applications and services. The LoadMaster load balancer helps support availability, performance and security across:

 

  • Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) environments
  • Patient portals and patient engagement applications
  • Revenue cycle management platforms
  • Laboratory information systems 
  • Pharmacy and medication management systems
  • Clinical integration services
  • Imaging and diagnostic application environments
  • Healthcare APIs and webservices

Optimizing Oracle Health with LoadMaster

Oracle Health applications play an important role in clinical and operational healthcare workflows. The LoadMaster platform provides the application delivery services organizations need to help keep healthcare applications available, secure and performant.

 

The LoadMaster load balancing solution helps healthcare organizations deliver a more resilient experience for clinicians, administrators and patients by combining intelligent traffic management, health monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery capabilities and security services.

 

Resources

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Optimizes 24/7 Clinical IT Operations with Advanced Load Balancing Solution

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Keeping the Lifeline Open: Driving Availability, Security and Optimization in Healthcare IT with LoadMaster

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Download a ready to use template for Oracle Health EHR system (formerly Cerner Health)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does LoadMaster help improve Oracle Health application availability?

The Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® load balancing solution helps improve application availability by distributing traffic across multiple application resources and supporting highly available deployment architectures. Health monitoring and failover capabilities help organizations maintain access to critical Oracle Health applications during infrastructure failures or maintenance activities.

Can LoadMaster be deployed with Oracle Health in cloud, hybrid or on-premises environments?

Yes. The LoadMaster platform is available as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance or cloud deployment, helping healthcare organizations support consistent application delivery across on-premises, cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

Does LoadMaster support disaster recovery strategies for Oracle Health?

Yes. LoadMaster Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) helps organizations strengthen disaster recovery readiness by directing users to healthy application environments and supporting automated site failover during outages or disruptions.

How does LoadMaster help secure Oracle Health applications?

The LoadMaster load balancing capabilities help organizations protect healthcare applications through SSL/TLS encryption, pre-authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), Active Directory integration, access control policies and Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities.

Can LoadMaster help improve performance for Oracle Health users?

The LoadMaster application delivery controller (ADC) distributes application traffic across available resources to help optimize resource utilization, reduce server bottlenecks and support a responsive application experience for clinicians, staff and patients.

Which Oracle Health applications can benefit from LoadMaster?

The LoadMaster solution can support application delivery requirements across Oracle Health environments, including: Electronic health record (EHR) applications Patient portals Laboratory information systems Pharmacy systems Revenue cycle management platforms Clinical integration services Healthcare APIs and web applications

Can LoadMaster help support maintenance and upgrades?

Yes. The LoadMaster load balancing solution helps organizations perform maintenance activities with minimal disruption by directing traffic to available resources while application infrastructure is updated or serviced.

What business benefits can healthcare organizations expect?

Organizations can benefit from improved application availability, stronger operational resilience, reduced downtime, better user experiences and a more reliable healthcare IT infrastructure. These outcomes help support both patient care objectives and operational efficiency.