EdLogics Addresses Health Literacy Gap with Linux Container and Cloud Solutions from Red Hat
Healthcare Education-as-a-Service provider builds scalable and agile
cloud infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat
JBoss Middleware and Ansible
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that EdLogics, a health education-based
consumer engagement company and innovator in game-based learning, has
built its digital health literacy platform on container and cloud
solutions from Red Hat, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform,
Red Hat JBoss Middleware, and Ansible by Red Hat. EdLogics’
Education-as-a-Service offering, based on Red Hat technology, is aiming
to transform the way consumers learn about health and improve health
literacy while simultaneously cutting consumer costs.
Studies have indicated that low health literacy - the ability to
understand and act on health information - can be tied to patient health
outcomes1. EdLogics’ mission is to address health literacy
issues through an interactive, personalized experience that makes
learning about health fun and engaging, and empowers individuals to take
greater responsibility for managing their health. The company's business
plan called for delivering a game-based learning platform as a minimum
viable product hosted in a public cloud. As interest grew in the
EdLogics offering, customers began signing up for the service, providing
support for the startup's approach. By offering innovative solutions to
address health literacy, EdLogics plans to improve health outcomes and
help control rising healthcare costs.
With its Education-as-a-Service platform developed, EdLogics turned to
Vizuri, an IT consulting firm that specializes in modern software
architectures, tools, and processes, and a Premier Red Hat partner, to
help build a modern and agile application infrastructure that could
support the startup’s long-term business objectives. Working with
Vizuri, EdLogics deployed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to
address the portability, scalability, and resiliency the company needed
for its cloud infrastructure. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is
specifically designed to provide a more secure, stable platform for
container-based deployments while allowing for mission-critical,
traditional applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and
container-based applications.
By deploying each client application in a multitenant, container-based
and more secure cloud infrastructure, EdLogics has found that it now has
dynamic and automated scalability, plus improved reliability, to help
support its client and user growth.
To implement this solution, EdLogics deployed Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform on BlackMesh SecureCloud, a managed service offering
that is compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Program
(FedRAMP), which provides a standardized approach to security and
monitoring for cloud products and services. BlackMesh, a Red Hat
Certified Cloud and Service Provider, enables EdLogics to comply with
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and FedRAMP,
which can free up the EdLogics team to focus on its core business
instead of infrastructure management and maintenance.
EdLogics also deployed Red Hat JBoss Middleware and Ansible by Red Hat,
the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation
framework, to support its integration and DevOps practices. With the
combination of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Ansible,
EdLogics and Vizuri created tailored continuous integration / continuous
delivery (CI/CD) processes, taking advantage of the Red Hat solutions
for provisioning, configuration management and deployment automation
solutions. Using Red Hat JBoss Middleware, EdLogics can integrate its
platform with strategic partners, electronic health records (EHRs),
patient portals, and care plan systems through a single sign-on
interface and share data through API architectures.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, in conjunction with our
technology partners, brings EdLogics the portability and scalability
they need for a growing platform that can require rapid changes to its
real-time information. We are proud to provide an open platform that
allows EdLogics to improve its customers’ health literacy and give more
accessible healthcare education to its user base, better meeting the
needs of today’s digitally-savvy patient.”
Thomas M. Chamberlain, PharmD, founder and chief executive officer,
EdLogics
“We believed that no one was delivering a personalized, fun, and
engaging way to educate consumers and improve health outcomes. So, we
set out to create an Education-as-a-Service offering and make it
available in the cloud to healthcare organizations, employers, and
government agencies. We've invested in the technology and infrastructure
necessary to support our platform and we are partnering with Red Hat and
Vizuri to make that happen.”
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1http://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/learn/understandingliteracy.html
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