Cloud-based Personal Health Platform Delivered to More Patients,
Improving Health Outcomes
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced that Brazil-based Vitalbox
has successfully launched its Personal Health Platform using Progress®
technologies. The Vitalbox solution is designed to enhance individual
healthcare while also reducing medical costs by providing a personal
health map and alerts. Progress has enabled Vitalbox to easily manage
the customized profiles of thousands of users more effectively than with
traditional database and software techniques. As a result, the social
business is now planning to introduce its low-cost preventative
healthcare tools in countries around the world.
As the world's population continues to increase, grow older and develop
chronic diseases earlier, providers are challenged with making
healthcare more accessible, effective and affordable.
Vitalbox's Personal Health Platform, benefits both patients and
caregivers by providing a health map that uses a patient's medical
history and lifestyle to calculate the chance of developing chronic
conditions, and then proposes actions to reduce risks. Alerts are
delivered to the patient if bodily measurements reach certain
thresholds. For instance, if a user's cholesterol is too high, he or she
will receive a notification to schedule an appointment with his or her
doctor.
A few months after its initial launch, more than 16,000 people in Brazil
were using the tool. This spike in users produced structured and
unstructured data which Vitalbox had to manage and store as each user
entered their personal health issues, goals and measurements. Manually
coding rules for each individual profile to push out personalized
information, notifications and advice was significantly slowing the
company down. Vitalbox turned to Progress for help deploying an
automated, cloud-based business rules management system.
The Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) - a
component of the Progress
Pacific PaaS platform delivered exactly what they needed:
high-quality, high-fidelity, high-performance, automated business
decisions and increased agility of decision change processes. As a
result of the successful deployment, Vitalbox is now looking to expand
from 16,000 to 600,000 users - a 375% increase. With the Progress
software, they significantly reduced the time to market and can now
develop and deploy a new rule in 10 minutes versus the previous six-hour
timescale. They also expect to reduce development and maintenance cycles
by 90%.
Executive Quotes:
Carlos Bassi, CEO at Vitalbox, said, "A critical component to the
Vitalbox platform is the ability to provide notifications to its users
based on their profiles. Progress Corticon gives us the agility to
immediately react to change, and it ensures our users are getting the
important and timely information they need to guide their health
decisions."
Karen Tegan Padir, chief technology officer at Progress, said, "Vitalbox
is another example of the incredible things people can and are doing
every day with technology. Using tools like business rules and platform
as a service, Vitalbox was able to take a great local solution to the
next level - bringing it to the masses and amplifying its impact. The
company's approach to preventative healthcare is inspiring and we're
proud to be part of their fight against the global health crisis."
Additional Resources:
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About Progress Software Corporation
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company
that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business
applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to
any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
Progress, Pacific and Corticon are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or
affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Progress Software
Rick Lacroix, +1 781-280-4604
rlacroix@progress.com
or
LEWIS
PR
Evan Burkhart, +1 617-226-8840
progress@lewispr.com
Source: Progress Software Corporation
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