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Project Dates CASE STUDY Company Overview www.ibexlabs.com 11 / 2017 Kitchry 12 / 2017 Create HIPAA compliant infrastructure for Kitchry Health’s mobile application. Why Match Kitchry with AWS? With the launch of their dietary mobile application in mid-September 2017, Kitchry Health recognized the need to move onto software-supporting infrastructure that complies with HIPAA regulations. Created by dietitians, the software application combines meal planning, patient reports, and customizable dietary templates. The company has created a reliable database of up-to-date nutritional information which dietitians can share with clients in the form of personalized meal plans. COPYRIGHT © 2018 IBEXLABS / Kitchry Health Case Study Healthcare organizations like Kitchry need to ensure that the all the security surrounding EHRs and EHR software remains first-rate to prevent any breaches or cracks in cybersecurity, especially ones that can lead to identity theft and leaked patient information. By leveraging AWS, Ibexlabs provisioned application infrastructure for Kitchry Health that meets HIPAA compliance regulations while still helping their dieticians connect quickly and easily with clients. AWS infrastructure meets all the necessary security and privacy requirements at the same time as being agile and scalable to meet fluctuating traffic demands. Aimed at boldly transforming the delivery of health advice, Kitchry Health’s mobile application allows dieticians to store and view all their client information in one place. By having full access to their clients’ profiles in this way, these health professionals can create and send personalized diet plans plus nutrition and wellness recommendations. They can also fully communicate with and track their clients’ progress. Challenge Aim As Kitchry Health's application database stores an extensive level of sensitive Electronic Health Records (EHRs) regarding their dieticians’ clients in the form of Protected health information (PHI) and ongoing tracking data, the company needed secure infrastructure with appropriate privacy protections.
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Project Dates
CASE STUDY
Company Overview
www.ibexlabs.com
11 / 2017
Kitchry
12 / 2017
Create HIPAA compliant infrastructure for Kitchry Health’s mobile application.
Why Match Kitchry with AWS?
With the launch of their dietary mobile application in mid-September 2017, Kitchry Health recognized the need to move onto software-supporting infrastructure that complies with HIPAA regulations. Created by dietitians, the software application combines meal planning, patient reports, and customizable dietary templates. The company has created a reliable database of up-to-date nutritional information which dietitians can share with clients in the form of personalized meal plans.
COPYRIGHT © 2018 IBEXLABS / Kitchry Health Case Study
Healthcare organizations like Kitchry need to ensure that the all the security surrounding EHRs and EHR software remains first-rate to prevent any breaches or cracks in cybersecurity, especially ones that can lead to identity theft and leaked patient information.
By leveraging AWS, Ibexlabs provisioned application infrastructure for Kitchry Health that meets HIPAA compliance regulations while still helping their dieticians connect quickly and easily with clients. AWS infrastructure meets all the necessary security and privacy requirements at the same time as being agile and scalable to meet fluctuating traffic demands.
Aimed at boldly transforming the delivery of health advice, Kitchry Health’s mobile application allows dieticians to store and view all their client information in one place. By having full access to their clients’ profiles in this way, these health professionals can create and send personalized diet plans plus nutrition and wellness recommendations. They can also fully communicate with and track their clients’ progress.
Challenge
Aim
As Kitchry Health's application database stores an extensive level of sensitive Electronic Health Records (EHRs) regarding their dieticians’ clients in the form of Protected health information (PHI) and ongoing tracking data, the company needed secure infrastructure with appropriate privacy protections.
Reduced implementation risks: Cloud computing allows for rapid deployment as there is no need to purchase hardware, licenses and software.
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The Results
Kitchry
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With AWS, Kitchry Health receives the following benefits:
Cost reduction thanks to AWS’ pay-per-use resource model: Kitchry Health can reduce the cost of IT infrastructure investments and on-going maintenance expenditures by paying only for the services actually used.
Increased flexibility: AWS provides more flexibility in terms of response and speed for the company's dieticians to access their clients' information at any time, and from anywhere.
Improved storage capabilities, network agility, and application scalability: AWS dynamically scales resources up and down as needed so Kitchry Health don’t pay for any wastage.
The company can focus on core values: With secure and reliable infrastructure, the business can focus on delivering personal nutrition and wellness recoomendations as the technology is maintained in accordance with best practices.
RDS DB Instance
RDS DB Instance
ECS Cluster
ECS Cluster
ALBALB
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
UserUser
AmazonECS
AmazonECS
AmazonECR
AmazonECR
IAMIAM
Through the app, and thanks to compliant infrastructure, Kitchry Health is able to continue meeting it's audience needs for expert nutritional guidance according to personal circumstances and data. Storing clients' PHI on EHR is secure, private, and cost-effective thanks to AWS.
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JenkinsA continuous Integration (CI) server or tool which is written in java. It provides Continuous Integration services for software development.
Other Leveraged Technologies
About IbexlabsIbexlabs LLC, is a DevOps & Managed Services provider and an AWS consulting partner. Our AWS certified AWS experts evaluates your infrastructure requirements and make recommendations based on your individual business or personal requirements.
Kitchry
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DockerDocker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.
AWS Services EmployedIbexlabs leveraged the below AWS Services during the set up to streamline, automate, and implement a secure baseline for Kitchry Health’s infrastructure:
To launch instances on a private, isolated network and gain the benefits from AWS’ scalable infrastructure and automatic failover from the provisioned virtual private gateway.
Amazon Elastic ContainerRegistry (ECR)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
ECS is AWS' service for Docker container orchestration which allows Ibexlabs to deploy Docker-based applications on a cluster.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs)
Amazon ECR stores, manages and deploys private images of Docker containers, whichare managed cluster of EC2 instances.
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