Case Study: Royal Flying Doctor Service achieves real-time patient care and faster data access with Oracle Autonomous Database and OCI

RFDS builds a life-saving IT architecture on Oracle Autonomous Database

Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) needed a better way to manage patient data across Australia’s remote regions, where unreliable connectivity and paper-based records made it hard to access critical information in real time. With hundreds of aircraft and ambulances supporting more than 380,000 patient interactions a year, RFDS sought a countrywide patient record system and turned to Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to improve access, consistency, and security.

Oracle implemented an aeromedical electronic health records platform using Oracle Autonomous Database, OCI GoldenGate, and OCI to synchronize data across seven operating entities, even when staff worked offline. The result was a fault-tolerant, zero-data-loss architecture that cut administrative work by 30%, gave clinicians about 30% more time for face-to-face care, and reduced patient-outcome processing from hours to minutes.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

Ryan Klose

Chief Information Officer