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Revitalizing a Medical Data Warehouse

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Overview At the center of the Canadian technology triangle that has Montreal, Quebec City, and New England at its corners, Sherbrooke is a vibrant city with the largest concentration of universities and colleges in the region. One of the most highly regarded institutions here is Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre, better known by its French acronym, CHUS. It needed to provide researchers and medical staff with fast and easy access to clinical data for secondary use, while reducing IT maintenance costs and improving system reliability. It migrated data warehouse from legacy UNIX server to HP ProLiant server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard (HP)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Upgrades and Migration

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