What we’ve built from scratch is a point-of-care interoperability platform that links physicians and nurses to a variety of practical software systems. It’s strong, secure, and scalable. Our ePrescribing application recently won ‘Best New Product’ at the Health 2.0 conference.
We have a web-based portal and a mobile portal which are linked at a server level. The Remedy platform is device agnostic, which means it can be deployed on Blackberry, Palm, Apple, Windows Mobile, and Google Android devices. We built the first version on the Apple iPhone OS because right now we think it has the most advanced user interface and is generally considered a fairly sexy device - and that helps with physician adoption.
The Remedy platform draws on the insights, optimization strategies, and best practices we learned while developing and managing one of the Top 10 paid iPhone apps in 2008. On the iPhone, Remedy has been optimized to make extensive use of data caching and baked in business logic, avoiding excessive transactions with the backend servers that would be associated with “thin” applications. In addition, the protocols used for communications have been optimized to be as light-weight as possible. This allows us to avoid excessive bandwidth and server resources.
Remedy uses a data abstraction layer that exploits the natural data clustering in the practice/physician/patient model. This data clustering combined with smart load balancers allows us to direct traffic to server-groups containing the most pertinent data for the specific user. Scalability comes with diminishing costs because record-clusters and their corresponding traffic can be dynamically relocated to either new or less-loaded server groups.