CASE STUDY

Modernizing Legacy Architectures with Cloud Strategies & Solutions

Healthcare

Executive Summary

Healthcare Provider standardizes technology and modernizes their estate to enable the practice and allow for greater focus delivering excellent care to their patients.

Customer Overview

HEALTHCARE
Regional Healthcare Practice: Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapy for Children.

Pediatric Developmental Therapy (PDT) provides speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and evaluations. Evaluations and therapy treatments are modified based on the individual needs of the child.

The
Situation

Healthcare Provider is a growing therapy practice looking to improve the efficiency of its technology investments, reduce the distractions to the business from technology and modernize legacy architectures to a more cloud based and business outcome focused solution. Our organization was called in to help recover failing business critical technology services and evaluate how to best support them moving forward.

The
Solution

Aligned initially engaged with the Practice to stabilize their technology platforms, assess their security posture and governance mechanisms, and take a full inventory of the technology in place. After identifying business requirements and capabilities, Aligned recommended steps to enhance the client’s compliance with HIPAA standards. This included migrating and upgrading their EMR platform within Amazon Web Services (AWS), utilizing HIPAA-eligible services like Amazon S3 and RDS, helping them improve their data security posture. We implemented VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, and AWS Config, all aligned with HIPAA eligibility, to monitor network traffic and system changes, ensuring secure data handling practices. Furthermore, we secured their AWS account by applying HIPAA-eligible controls and services to improve their existing compliance efforts. Lastly, we assisted in the development of a backup and recovery strategy for their EMR and ePHI, leveraging AWS to improve data security, helping them move toward more robust compliance with HIPAA’s stringent data protection requirements.

Our
Engagement

  • Information Security Risk Assessment
  • Technology Current State Assessment
  • Technology Future State Roadmap
  • System Administration
  • AWS Cloud Posture Assessment & Compliance Assessment
  • Help Desk Outsourcing
  • IT Managed Services
  • AWS Cloud Backup Modernization
  • ERP Technical Assistance
  • Collaboration Platform Migration
  • Network Assessment & Rightsizing
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Last Updated on September 4, 2024 by Navin Zaman

Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.

Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.