PubNub Case Studies Transforming Physician Communication to Improve Quality of Care

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Transforming Physician Communication to Improve Quality of Care

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Remote Collaboration
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Building chat for the healthcare industry is more than just writing code. Strict compliance, complex rules, and closely-monitored regulation of sensitive healthcare data that’s stored and sent isn’t just an expectation – it’s a legal requirement. As a result, everything from the backend infrastructure to the end user features need to be carefully deployed, and maintained at a higher level of sophistication than other industries. After releasing the first version of their application, MedX started to notice stability issues with their backend infrastructure, as well as bugs with their client application. Devoting internal resources to focus on improving reliability, the MedX team quickly recognized they lacked the domain knowledge to continue to improve and innovate their app. With over 23,000 physicians using the application, MedX needed to improve reliability, and open up the opportunity to create new, innovative features for their users. Read More
About Customer	MedX is an Australian iPhone- and Android-based secure messaging system for AHPRA (the Australian equivalent of the US’s HIPAA compliance) medical doctors. The app offers free doctor-to-doctor messaging, legal compliance, a searchable directory and end-to-end encryption. MedX improves quality of care for patients by allowing doctors to quickly chat with each other, share test results and communicate urgent medical information. Distillery is a full-service software design and development company for startups and enterprises. Read More
Solution	MedX approached Distillery to rebuild the current version of their product, remedy existing bugs, deploy a reliable and secure backend infrastructure, and add new features required by their large user base of physicians. In turn, Distillery called upon PubNub to deliver the reliable backend messaging infrastructure, and to power all the new interactive realtime features. PubNub does the heavy lifting involved in orchestrating and maintaining a global infrastructure, which massively reduces the developer resource requirements otherwise called upon for in-house projects. Using PubNub’s reliable infrastructure and realtime APIs, Distillery was able to dedicate the lion’s share of the project to developing interactive, differentiating features MedX wanted. They were quickly able to release features like a realtime medical newsfeed and realtime message translation to automatically translate chat messages between users without a common spoken language. The language translation feature uses Amazon Translate and PubNub Blocks to serverlessly process and deliver the messages. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Remote Collaboration

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Building chat for the healthcare industry is more than just writing code. Strict compliance, complex rules, and closely-monitored regulation of sensitive healthcare data that’s stored and sent isn’t just an expectation – it’s a legal requirement. As a result, everything from the backend infrastructure to the end user features need to be carefully deployed, and maintained at a higher level of sophistication than other industries. After releasing the first version of their application, MedX started to notice stability issues with their backend infrastructure, as well as bugs with their client application. Devoting internal resources to focus on improving reliability, the MedX team quickly recognized they lacked the domain knowledge to continue to improve and innovate their app. With over 23,000 physicians using the application, MedX needed to improve reliability, and open up the opportunity to create new, innovative features for their users.

About Customer

MedX is an Australian iPhone- and Android-based secure messaging system for AHPRA (the Australian equivalent of the US’s HIPAA compliance) medical doctors. The app offers free doctor-to-doctor messaging, legal compliance, a searchable directory and end-to-end encryption. MedX improves quality of care for patients by allowing doctors to quickly chat with each other, share test results and communicate urgent medical information. Distillery is a full-service software design and development company for startups and enterprises.

Solution

MedX approached Distillery to rebuild the current version of their product, remedy existing bugs, deploy a reliable and secure backend infrastructure, and add new features required by their large user base of physicians. In turn, Distillery called upon PubNub to deliver the reliable backend messaging infrastructure, and to power all the new interactive realtime features. PubNub does the heavy lifting involved in orchestrating and maintaining a global infrastructure, which massively reduces the developer resource requirements otherwise called upon for in-house projects. Using PubNub’s reliable infrastructure and realtime APIs, Distillery was able to dedicate the lion’s share of the project to developing interactive, differentiating features MedX wanted. They were quickly able to release features like a realtime medical newsfeed and realtime message translation to automatically translate chat messages between users without a common spoken language. The language translation feature uses Amazon Translate and PubNub Blocks to serverlessly process and deliver the messages.

Impact #1	Distillery was able to deliver the MedX app significantly faster than building backend infrastructure in-house.
Impact #2	PubNub’s globally-redundant infrastructure sets MedX up for stress-free and successful international expansion.
Impact #3	Physicians will enjoy the same low-latency, high-performance experience that they do in Australia.

Impact #1

Distillery was able to deliver the MedX app significantly faster than building backend infrastructure in-house.

Impact #2

PubNub’s globally-redundant infrastructure sets MedX up for stress-free and successful international expansion.

Impact #3

Physicians will enjoy the same low-latency, high-performance experience that they do in Australia.

Benefit #1	Reliability for 23,000+ physicians on the app.

Benefit #1

Reliability for 23,000+ physicians on the app.

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Transforming Physician Communication to Improve Quality of Care

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