National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Migrates to AWS with IBM's Support

Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) enhanced its patient-care delivery by migrating the Shared Health Integrated Information Portal (SHIIP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Serving nearly 500,000 patients annually in Ottawa, Ontario, QCH needed to scale SHIIP to meet the growing demand for accessible and secure patient data. Working alongside AWS Partner Qalius Consulting Inc. (Qalius), the hospital migrated SHIIP to the cloud, adopting AWS' services to enhance scalability and governance. This migration will empower QCH to support more healthcare providers by achieving a level of agility and expansion that was unattainable on premises.

Club Salute is a network of more than 70 Italian pharmacies that together have nearly 300,000 customers. It provides central marketing support, supply chain support, technical services, and its own range of branded products, including supplements and cosmetics.

It turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner Omnys to develop and deploy an ecommerce system with easy-to-use dashboards for use by individual pharmacists and a mobile application for Club Salute customers. Systems had to be fast and easy to use but also keep sensitive personal data safe and secure and meet Italian pharmaceutical regulations.

Sapphire Health, an AWS Partner, worked with LCMC Health to build a cloud read-only environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). LCMC Health's production Epic environment is replicated in the organization’s secure healthcare landing zone on AWS. If ransomware takes production systems such as the Epic electronic health record system offline, the cloud read-only environment is ready to be activated in minutes to provide clinicians read-only access to critical clinical information such as patient encounters, medications, allergies, and more. Sapphire Health used the Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) for Healthcare on AWS to implement the solution in weeks instead of months. LCMC Health has used the solution to reduce its cybersecurity premiums while lowering solution operating costs.

Praseed Thapparambil, Chief Digital Officer, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) shares how AWS Partner IBM helped deliver structure in navigating a new federal law in the pharmaceutical space and migrate all data to Amazon Web Services (AWS).