Contrast Security Case Studies Creating Marketplace Efficiencies for the Healthcare Industry: A Digital Healthcare Company's Journey to the Cloud

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Creating Marketplace Efficiencies for the Healthcare Industry: A Digital Healthcare Company's Journey to the Cloud

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Leasing Finance Automation Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The digital healthcare company was facing a challenge of business and technology innovation being hampered by traditional legacy security and infrastructure tools. The company required a solution that could quickly and seamlessly accelerate the company’s digital future by migrating securely to a cloud infrastructure. The company was also facing the challenge of solving the healthcare access problem. With approximately 6 million patients visiting the company per month to schedule and book doctor appointments, they needed to adapt, innovate, and modernize the healthcare industry by providing a frictionless healthcare experience for healthcare practitioners and for the 21st century patient. The company initially focused on private healthcare practices and building a technology solution optimized for that specific use case. They experienced early success, building momentum, and critical mass. The company soon realized that there was a significant opportunity to turn its focus and expand to a larger piece of the healthcare system by addressing the changes in healthcare demands. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a digital healthcare company based in the United States. The company is in the industry of digital healthcare and medical technology. The company provides a platform for approximately 6 million patients per month to schedule and book doctor appointments. The company initially focused on private healthcare practices and building a technology solution optimized for that specific use case. They experienced early success, building momentum, and critical mass. The company soon realized that there was a significant opportunity to turn its focus and expand to a larger piece of the healthcare system by addressing the changes in healthcare demands. Read More
Solution	The company decided to migrate its workloads to the cloud and realign its products to the technology advances in the marketplace. They chose to migrate to the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabling them to integrate seamlessly with Contrast Security and secure their software applications. The company adopted a “Lift & Shift” migration approach to the AWS cloud. In this approach, existing workloads/applications and data from on-premises deployments were transitioned to the AWS (cloud provider) infrastructure. The company also used Amazon CloudTrail, a service that enables governance and risk auditing to facilitate compliance practices. As a result, the company merits the trust of its patients to manage their care and meet the compliance standard mandates and policies for the healthcare industry (e.g. HIPPA, HITRUST, NIST). Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Leasing Finance Automation

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The digital healthcare company was facing a challenge of business and technology innovation being hampered by traditional legacy security and infrastructure tools. The company required a solution that could quickly and seamlessly accelerate the company’s digital future by migrating securely to a cloud infrastructure. The company was also facing the challenge of solving the healthcare access problem. With approximately 6 million patients visiting the company per month to schedule and book doctor appointments, they needed to adapt, innovate, and modernize the healthcare industry by providing a frictionless healthcare experience for healthcare practitioners and for the 21st century patient. The company initially focused on private healthcare practices and building a technology solution optimized for that specific use case. They experienced early success, building momentum, and critical mass. The company soon realized that there was a significant opportunity to turn its focus and expand to a larger piece of the healthcare system by addressing the changes in healthcare demands.

About Customer

The customer is a digital healthcare company based in the United States. The company is in the industry of digital healthcare and medical technology. The company provides a platform for approximately 6 million patients per month to schedule and book doctor appointments. The company initially focused on private healthcare practices and building a technology solution optimized for that specific use case. They experienced early success, building momentum, and critical mass. The company soon realized that there was a significant opportunity to turn its focus and expand to a larger piece of the healthcare system by addressing the changes in healthcare demands.

Solution

The company decided to migrate its workloads to the cloud and realign its products to the technology advances in the marketplace. They chose to migrate to the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabling them to integrate seamlessly with Contrast Security and secure their software applications. The company adopted a “Lift & Shift” migration approach to the AWS cloud. In this approach, existing workloads/applications and data from on-premises deployments were transitioned to the AWS (cloud provider) infrastructure. The company also used Amazon CloudTrail, a service that enables governance and risk auditing to facilitate compliance practices. As a result, the company merits the trust of its patients to manage their care and meet the compliance standard mandates and policies for the healthcare industry (e.g. HIPPA, HITRUST, NIST).

Impact #1	Contrast Security and AWS enabled this digital healthcare company to employ a more layered security posture than they had previously, helping them transition more securely to the cloud. The organization’s synchronous technology has significantly reduced patient wait time to just 24 hours. This has helped redefine them as they expand their footprint. The company was able to reach the highest levels of compliance in healthcare (SOC 2 Type II, HITRUST). The company was also able to reduce the inefficiencies of manual work through automation and drove further innovation enabling the business. By migrating and utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company was able achieve these goals with flexibility, reliability, security, compliance, and scalability. The AWS offerings have helped the company launch and integrate new applications quickly and effectively, accelerating time-to-market and providing a key competitive advantage.

Impact #1

Contrast Security and AWS enabled this digital healthcare company to employ a more layered security posture than they had previously, helping them transition more securely to the cloud. The organization’s synchronous technology has significantly reduced patient wait time to just 24 hours. This has helped redefine them as they expand their footprint. The company was able to reach the highest levels of compliance in healthcare (SOC 2 Type II, HITRUST). The company was also able to reduce the inefficiencies of manual work through automation and drove further innovation enabling the business. By migrating and utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company was able achieve these goals with flexibility, reliability, security, compliance, and scalability. The AWS offerings have helped the company launch and integrate new applications quickly and effectively, accelerating time-to-market and providing a key competitive advantage.

Benefit #1	Greater flexibility and operational efficiencies
Benefit #2	Decreased time and cost maintaining the infrastructure
Benefit #3	Reduced the inefficiencies and limitation of static and dynamic tools through automation

Benefit #1

Greater flexibility and operational efficiencies

Benefit #2

Decreased time and cost maintaining the infrastructure

Benefit #3

Reduced the inefficiencies and limitation of static and dynamic tools through automation

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Creating Marketplace Efficiencies for the Healthcare Industry: A Digital Healthcare Company's Journey to the Cloud

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