Situation
As one of the fastest-growing providers of digital healthcare services and solutions, the client was experiencing significant growth and demand for its Electronic Health Record Management, Revenue Cycle Management, Healthcare Practice Management, and Telemedicine Service, requiring quick and continuous development and deployment of its technology solutions.
Additionally, due to a considerably high volume of telemedicine usage, the healthcare applications required maximum performance, reliability, and scalability, necessitating continuous development, testing, and deployment of the client’s on-premise and cloud applications. This continuous process improvement could only be possible with reliable testing processes and tools in place. The client sought to:
- Improve performance and load testing coverage for EMR application areas;
- Implement failover and recovery testing per regulations;
- Gain real-time insights and a complete audit trail of performance and load testing metrics, execution results, and issues;
- Enable continuous performance and load testing as part of its CI/CD pipeline and for upgrade patch validations.
AST’s team provided comprehensive performance and load testing services for the client’s various cloud-based healthcare solutions. The client has realized significant gains in automated testing coverage, reduced time-to-market, and early detection of defects. This has also resulted in timely resolution and fine-tuning of performance bottlenecks with much higher confidence in the scalability, responsiveness, and reliability of the applications in production.”
Mark Meyer VP, Managed Services, ASTAST’s team provided comprehensive performance and load testing services for the client’s various cloud-based healthcare solutions. The client has realized significant gains in automated testing coverage, reduced time-to-market, and early detection of defects. This has also resulted in timely resolution and fine-tuning of performance bottlenecks with much higher confidence in the scalability, responsiveness, and reliability of the applications in production.”
Mark Meyer VP, Managed Services, ASTSolutions & Benefits
AST’s team partnered with the client to understand their needs and determine the appropriate path forward, including success criteria. In order for the platform to support a high number of users, preserve functionality under high loads, and maintain minimal page navigation response times, AST enabled comprehensive load, endurance, and performance testing, providing the client with the following business value:
- 82% gain in automated performance and load testing coverage for EMR application modules
- 100% datacenter failover and recovery testing coverage
- 100% real-time monitoring and insights into test metrics
- 70% reduction in patch testing time, ensuring faster time to production
- Identification of nearly 150 performance bottlenecks early in the CI/CD cycle, enabling risk analysis and timely resolution
Solution Components:
- JMeter
- Grafana
- Glowroot
- BitBucket
- JIRA
- SSMS
- SQL Profiler
Why AST?
AST provided a robust performance and load testing solution, improving performance across the client’s applications and resulting in enhanced delivery of services required for greater patient care.