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Medical Wizard's Use of WaveMaker to Enhance Healthcare Software Solutions
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Quality Assurance
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
With the increase of average life expectancy of the population, demand for good healthcare support has also become high. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers are finding it difficult to treat patients with limited resources. The traditional approach of creating a solution would require focus groups of doctors and other healthcare professionals to carefully go through all patient case studies and documentation. But this is a luxury that most doctors do not have due to their busy schedules. The healthcare industry also deals with a lot of personnel data including confidential patient history, patient healthcare information and other private information. The Australian government has legislation that protects this information. Therefore security is also a major concern. While Medical Wizard needs to provide software solutions to doctors and healthcare professionals that makes their cumbersome processes efficient, it needs to comply with the security parameters as well.
About The Customer
Medical Wizard is a software company headquartered in Melbourne that's been proudly serving the Australian healthcare industry for the past 24 years. It’s software has been developed from the ground up to meet specific needs of hospitals and specialist medical centers. Since its inception in 1994, Medical Wizard has gained an impeccable track record of providing the most intuitive practice management solution in the healthcare space.
The Solution
Given the challenges, Medical Wizard needed a platform that would allow them to rapidly prototype and build UIs to meet the frequently changing app requirements. The WaveMaker platform was also an easy fit for their existing development teams as the platform ran on open-standards based code. Moreover, a visual WYSIWYG app-building interface made it easy for inexperienced developers to adopt the platform. The developers could focus on solution building tasks such as creating logics and processes while the platform auto-generated code. As part of the decision-making process in choosing the right product, Medical Wizard was looking for a stable platform that was running open standards, had no lock-in and also had no runtime dependency to run apps or consume the application. WaveMaker provided all this and more. Medical Wizard’s development teams were able to deliver business and process critical applications to cater to the fast-paced needs of the Australian healthcare market.
Operational Impact
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