 Success Story
Ephlux Mobile Application Services facilitate Clinical Pearl a CME provider unleash its true potential…. |
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Clinical Pearl a CME (continuing medical education) provider company in New
Jersey contacted Ephlux to develop and maintain Mobile Applications to liberate
its network of physicians from their desktops. Ephlux deployed its services to
help the organization conquer this challenge. |
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Necessity
Mobile Applications offer a competitive edge to companies
which are technology driven and thrive on mobility. The
healthcare sector today is one of the most mobile and
technology sensitive industries. Ephlux presented its mobile
application services package to Clinical Pearl backed by a long
term sustainable road map.
Clinical Pearl is a network of physicians, residents, medical
students, physician assistants and nurse practitioners that
helps them document, organize and share their daily clinical
queries and pearls.
The need was to develop and launch fully‐featured iPhone,
Blackberry, Windows Mobile applications (and Android in the
future) for Clinical Pearl.
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Innovation &
Integration
Ephlux studied the system and assigned it’s
Business Analyst along with two developers to
sprint the project. The first step was analyzing the
existing web application and mapping its
requirements to the Mobile Applications. The
existing web application was developed in C#
ASP.Net with MSSQL Server 2005 as the database.
A replica of the existing database was designed and
modified accordingly on SQL Lite and Server Impact
for Blackberry, Windows Mobile and iPhone, so
that the mobile application could connect to these
databases.
The iPhone and Blackberry Application
development were initiated in parallel with the
graphic designer designing the User Interface for
these varying Apps. iPhone, Windows Mobile and
Blackberry have different user interfaces, which
were catered delicately by the design team for
optimum performance.
The customer was kept in a close loop via
simulators as well as periodic builds on the actual
devices. The design and development team worked
very closely with the customer to cope up with any
changes that could further enhance the
applications.
Ephlux suggested several design and functional
features both during the analysis and development
phases that were made part of the system after
client approval and appreciation. The Application
allows doctors, experts and medical practitioners
to keep themselves updated and on track at this
community with latest drug analysis, Patient cases,
medicine updates/reviews and other medical and
healthcare related queries. This was achieved via
two key features called Clinical Pearls and Clinical
Queries.
The project was completed in 3 sprints (of a month
each) and several iterations after which the
mobile-apps were ready to Go-Live.
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Liberation and
Success
The mobile applications created have liberated busy
physicians and medical practitioners from having to sit in
front of their workstations while documenting their
pearls. The slick and highly intuitive mobile application
interface helps in providing 'zero-intrusion' usability,
perfectly meshed with the dynamic and mobile work-life
of physicians and medical practitioners.
Not only does the application provide convenience and
efficiency for existing members but also offers a very
attractive incentive for new members to join the
network.
During the early-adoption tests conducted by Clinical Pearl,
the ability to be used anywhere with an effortlessness,
non-intrusive usability was acknowledged and appreciated
by members as the main reason for embracing mobile
applications.
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Insights
Thought Leadership
