Case Study: FairWarning achieves scalable, high-performance patient privacy monitoring with MySQL

Privacy Monitoring Solutions Rely on MySQL to Secure Patient Data

FairWarning is the world’s leading supplier of patient privacy monitoring solutions, used by 1,200 hospitals and 5,000 clinics across 47 U.S. states and 7 countries to protect electronic health records. As healthcare moved from paper to EHRs, customers faced growing regulatory requirements and sprawling systems containing protected health information (one customer had over 100 systems), producing massive event volumes and operational strain on limited resources.

FairWarning relies on MySQL to power its on‑premise and SaaS monitoring platform, migrating to InnoDB and MySQL 5.6 and using MySQL Enterprise Hot Backup, Enterprise Monitor, and Workbench to ensure 24x7 availability and efficient administration. MySQL has scaled to handle terabytes and billions of events (FairWarning has audited 120 billion events), cut data load times by 500%, reduced restore times by up to 80%, and kept DBA overhead low—enabling FairWarning to grow without adding significant operational costs.

FairWarning

Chris Arnold

Vice President of Product Management & Engineering