Visual WebGui Case Studies

“When we received the project estimations from the migration experts at Gizmox we were a bit skeptical at first as it seemed too good to be true… not only that the solution was exactly what we needed but it was also priced lower than all other alternatives.”  Dr. Wendy Graham.

Overview
mihealth™ is a health care application that empowers patients with the information they require to take better control of their own health and wellness by combining a physician-validated personal health record with messaging functionality. This approach not only reduces dependency on the health care system but also facilitates a proactive approach to health management so overall health and wellness could improve dramatically.

Mihealth Global Systems Inc. is a private company that is offering a new way to organize, manage and communicate a summary of the patient's health and relevant personal information in a form that is available to the patient at all times. Critical health information will be validated by their physician.

Business Needs
During its official launch of mihealth™, Mihealth Global Systems Inc. experienced significant interest from the medical community within Canada. However, clinics/physicians that wanted to use mihealth™ were fragmented in their use of operating systems. They often used older, outdated versions of Windows, as well as Mac computers. This presented a significant challenge as mihealth™ was only compatible with Windows, and had strict system requirements. In addition, the individuals who installed the application in clinics/physicians’ offices were traditional sales representatives and usually not technically proficient.
 
Mihealth needed a cost-effective way to accommodate all operating systems without reducing the existing functionality and security. As a result, it was determined that a web-based version of mihealth™ was the best way to overcome the installation roadblocks. As tablets’ and especially the iPad’s market share is growing very quickly, support for iPad also became a requirement. Still, it was important that the web-based system would incorporate the same functionality while reproducing the successful look and feel of the Windows system’s UI.

The Solution
Mihealth searched for a solution to turn their local Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution without rewriting the application and with minimal changes and resources involved. Gizmox’s Instant CloudMove seemed exactly what Mihealth were looking for in terms of their requirements as it provides migration tools that allow converting the existing Windows integrated application, with its layers of encryption and security, into a web-based application that could be accessed by all platforms.

Running some assessment tools on the existing application provided estimations that almost 98% of the code could be automatically migrated into rich ASP.NET using the Instant CloudMove tools. “When we received the project estimations from the migration experts at Gizmox we were a bit skeptical at first as it seemed too good to be true” said Dr. Wendy Graham, Mihealth CEO and added “not only that the solution was exactly what we needed but it was also priced lower than all other alternatives.” 

Those optimistic estimations turned into reality very quickly as the code migration was completed by Gizmox in only a couple of weeks. Then, in less than 2 months the entire project was completed and the migrated web-based physician tool was ready for delivery.

Benefits
Gizmox Instant CloudMove conversion was accomplished at a very cost-effective price, and in an extremely short period of time to meet Mihealth’s business needs. Gizmox was very responsive to Mihealth’s input and the finished product was being used by physicians within 2 months of the project start date which means Mihealth delivered the updated application to their customers in the tight schedule.

The final product was a completely identical version to the Windows application, with all of the functionalities, appearance, and feel, but was available through a web-browser from anywhere in the world. This allowed Mihealth to reach all clinics/physicians without turning away any potential customers. Implementation of mihealth™ also became much easier, as sales representatives did not face any of the previous complications when installing the application in a busy clinic on unfamiliar hardware or operating software. “Migrating mihealth to a web-based technology means we can now reach more customers with much less operative efforts and resources on our side. I can definitely say it made us more competitive” concluded Dr. Graham.

Screenshots
Windows application login screen: 
 

Web-based application login screen:
 

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