Prescribing medication for patients is becoming simpler and safer with Medi-Map, a cloud-based medicines and e-prescription management platform.
Pharmacist couple Greg and Julie Garratt founded the company after spotting an opportunity to evolve prescription systems from heavy reliance on paper to a fully integrated e-Health solution.
Making quick inroads into New Zealand’s aged care sector, the Christchurch-headquartered company continues to grow, adding major clients across the Tasman, and broadening its focus to addiction methadone prescribing.
Public cloud is a key enabler for Medi-Map’s global business aspirations. Like most high-growth cloud businesses, Medi-Map requires push-button scalability and as-a-service infrastructure to keep pace with customer demand and service upgrade cycles.
Microsoft Azure ticked the boxes, providing a secure cloud-ready launchpad for Medi-Map’s Australian operation and beyond. However, working in the cloud highlighted a skills and experience gap that knocked the health services provider’s confidence to progress optimally at the required pace.
While Medi-Map’s development team continued to write applications for Microsoft Windows and other operating systems, as self-described “cloud immigrants” they were less familiar with much of Azure‘s cloud-native functionality.
“Our skillset was geared more to deploying software to servers rather than serverless infrastructure,” Paul Hilton, Medi-Map’s CTO said. “We’re software people – not infrastructure people, so we needed help to ensure what we were delivering wasn’t going to be a fizzer requiring unexpected additional work.”