Executive Summary
Modernizing Medicine believes quality healthcare is more achievable when your focus is on the patient, not clunky software. That’s why Modernizing Medicine® created intuitive solutions to free EMA® and gGastro® EHR users from the burden of excessive typing and clicking. Now you can treat your patient while allowing our technology to document the entire experience. EMA is even available on your iPad. Instead of adding more work to your day, Modernizing Medicine brings the human experience back into the exam room, just as the best healthcare technology should.
Healthcare Medical Equipment Industry
The industry includes almost 2 million jobs in the United States, including both direct and indirect employment. Medical technology directly accounts for well over 300,000 of these jobs. More than 80 percent of medical device companies in the United States consist of fewer than 50 employees, and many (notably start-up companies) have little or no sales revenue. U.S. medical device companies are highly regarded globally for their innovative and high technology products. R&D spending continues to represent a high percentage of medical device industry expenditures, averaging 7 percent of revenue. Compared to several other industries including automotive, defense, and telecommunications, the medical device industry invests a higher percentage of yearly revenues into product innovation, reflecting the competitive nature of the industry and constant innovation and improvement of existing technologies.
The medical device industry relies on several industries where the United States holds a competitive advantage, including microelectronics, telecommunications, instrumentation, biotechnology, and software development. Collaborations have led to recent advances including neurostimulators, stent technologies, biomarkers, robotic assistance, and implantable electronic devices. Since innovation fuels the medical device sector’s ongoing quest for better ways to treat and diagnose medical
conditions, when coupled with patient life expectancy increasing and aging populations globally, the medical device sector should continue growing at a positive rate in the future.
Customer Challenge
As a result of rapid growth during the past 10 years, product development processes and systems were cobbled together based on the best practices at the time. Consequently, fragmented manual and automated legacy processes were required to be executed to manufacture product updates. In addition, a backlog of unreleased product updates resulted.
High Level Requirements were:
Deploy Backlog of Application Fixes:
Several application fixes have been generated by an architecture team during the past year. Immediate responsibility was to deploy these objects by integrating into the existing release process cycles.
Optimize CI/CD per Cloud Best Practices:
Terraform was the preferred provisioning platform. However, it was underutilized and not parameterized for environment variables. As a result, parameterization of applicable parameters was required, and the build of all new service provisioning objects were executed via Terraform templates. Furthermore, configuration management tasks such executing database
DDLs were streamlined and implemented via Terraform resource objects.
Increased Monitoring and Container Logging:
Modernizing Medicine required additional visibility not only into the overall CI/CD process via a homogeneous interface, but also greater visibility relative to container activities. Hence, container performance monitoring and
logging infrastructure design and deployment was required.
Why AWS
Modernizing Medicine selected AWS as their cloud platform shortly after their inception a decade ago, and more recently, sought to take advantage of AWS’s innovative software product development infrastructure such
Elastic Kubernetes Service.
