CASE STUDY

OB Hospitalist Group Increases Reliability for Customers through ATG’s Elastic Engineering and HIPAA-Compliant AWS Migration 

Healthcare

Executive Summary

OBHG Management Group, the nation’s largest OB Hospitalist Provider, faced service disruptions due to a discontinued SaaS product. Aligned Technology Group (ATG) orchestrated a migration to a new secure AWS environment, ensuring uninterrupted services.ATG’s adaptive approach, detailed TCO analysis, and expertise in healthcare IT solutions demonstrate a successful partnership in navigating complex challenges.

Customer Overview

Healthcare
OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG).

OBHG ensures continuous and timely care for patients in labor and delivery, reducing wait times and improving outcomes. With a non-competitive, collaborative approach, OBHG hospitalists support local OB/GYN physicians, fostering unity in women’s healthcare. Through a national network of dedicated clinicians, OBHG pioneers best practices to elevate standards, reduce variability, and drive operational efficiencies, embodying core values of passion, principled leadership, delivering excellence, uncompromised integrity, and genuine service.

The
Situation

OBHG, was faced with a critical challenge. Their existing SaaS managed services provider discontinued support for a product they were leveraging, jeopardizing the continuity of services. They urgently needed a partner to assist in migrating them to a new AWS environment to maintain continuity for their end users, ensure seamless operations, and ensure compliance to HIPAA requirements. Further complicating things, they leverage Azure and GCP today for the remaining infrastructure along with on-premises servers.

The
Solution

ATG seamlessly migrated OBHG to a secure AWS environment, deploying a robust Secure Landing Zone, tailored Engineering and Security Services, and a meticulous Migration Strategy. Strategic Storage utilization, leveraging Amazon S3, ensured optimal performance and cost-efficiency for large-scale data storage. The project resulted in uninterrupted transition, highlighting ATG’s efficiency, with success metrics including consistent support through the Elastic Engineering and Catalyst Program, and securing funding from AWS to reduce total service costs during the migration.

Our
Engagement

  • Elastic Engineering
  • Cloud Security Posture Assessment
  • Strategic Cloud Advisory
  • Cloud Migration
  • Storage Service Deployment
  • Catalyst Resell Program
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Cloud, Aligned & Optimized

ATG Expertise, Realized

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.