PharmMD

Infrastructure is like medication, the less risk the better.

PharmMD improves millions of patients' lives with reliable, up-to-date medication guidance. To keep business moving around the clock, they automated their infrastructure with Hosted Chef™.

The Challenge

PharmMD, a pioneer in Medication Care Management (MCM), provides physicians, pharmacists and patients with a holistic, 360-degree view of each patient´s health status, guidelines for best practices and evidence-based medicine protocols. With its business based on the ability to reliably deliver confidential health information, PharmMD needed an automation engine capable of providing granular reporting and documentation to ensure infrastructure consistency, while minimizing resource management.

The Solution

PharmMD deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ across its entire Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure, automating configuration and environment management, while creating a repository of data documenting changes in its infrastructure. Using Hosted Chef, PharmMD's IT operations team has been able to ensure maximum consistency throughout the testing, staging and production of PharmMD's unique med management application, while reducing resource management from days to minutes.

The Results

  • Ensure resources are always configured to exact and repeatable specifications.
  • Reduce management time from days to minutes.
  • Enable isolated testing of new code and applications, improving service reliability.
"Hosted Chef just makes everything so much easier. We're faster and more agile - from development to testing to production - making our operations more efficient and our service even better for customers." Jamie van Dyke, Senior Infrastructure Architect, PharmMD

PharmMD is the quality leader in Medication Therapy Management Solutions. Based in Brentwood, Tenn., PharmMD works with employers and health plans to prevent medication related health problems through the application of the best pharmacist and physician knowledge using their proprietary MTM software.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.