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Digital Transformation & Test Automation for DrFirst Healthcare Software

DrFirst is a pioneer in prescription and medication management solutions, serving physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, and healthcare providers across the US and Canada. Their suite of products helps streamline medication workflows, strengthen patient-doctor collaboration, and ensure compliance.

The goal: modernize infrastructure, automate healthcare software testing, and enhance scalability while delivering zero-downtime prescription management solutions.

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Project Overview

Project Overview
INDUSTRY
Healthcare IT / Digital Health
PROJECT DURATION
15+ Years
(Ongoing Partnership)

As DrFirst expanded its medication management software and prescription solutions, the growing user base exposed challenges in scalability, downtime, and testing efficiency. Manual processes limited regression speed, while outdated infrastructure caused delays and higher costs. Implementing solutions to reduce downtime in healthcare IT systems became a critical requirement to ensure reliability and patient safety.

Seasia Infotech partnered with DrFirst to provide healthcare software testing services, infrastructure modernization, and healthcare automation solutions, enabling them to deliver faster, more reliable, and secure services to healthcare providers.

Challenges faced by DrFirst included

  • 30+ minutes of downtime during system failures due to manual log shipping.
  • Inadequate load balancing for high-volume healthcare transactions.
  • Manual testing slowing down release cycles.
  • Limited scalability from traditional physical servers.

Seasia’s Solutions

Seasia addressed DrFirst’s needs with a two-fold strategy: infrastructure modernization and test automation transformation.

Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions
  • Implemented Oracle GoldenGate with bi-directional replication for zero downtime. 
  • Adopted F5 Load Balancers to ensure high-performance, uninterrupted healthcare IT systems. 
  • Migrated from physical Dell servers to Cisco UCS virtualization with VMware. 
  • Built a private cloud for healthcare providers leveraging Cisco UCS, VMware, NetApp, and GoldenGate. 
  • Designed and deployed a scalable Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for healthcare analytics. 
Testing & Automation Solutions
  • Gelivered healthcare app testing and QA with automated UI & API frameworks.
  • Built scalable frameworks for products like Rcopia, RcopiaUpdate, and EPCS.
  • Integrated automation into CI/CD pipelines for faster, more reliable releases.
  • Reduced manual testing costs while improving speed-to-market.

Technology Stack

Automation & Testing Tools

SeleniumSelenium
SerenitySerenity
Rest AssuredRest Assured
JMeterJMeter

CI/CD & Frameworks

JenkinsJenkins
MavenMaven
AntAnt
JUnitJUnit

Infrastructure & Cloud

Cisco UCSCisco UCS
VMwareVMware
Oracle GoldenGateOracle GoldenGate
NetAppNetApp

Programming Languages

JavaJava

Results & Achievements

  • Zero-downtime healthcare IT systems with GoldenGate and load balancing.

  • Faster releases through CI/CD in healthcare software development.

  • Highly scalable EDW for advanced analytics and reporting.

  • Reduced costs by transitioning to cloud and automation.

  • Awards & Recognition Ranked #1 in Medication Management (2017) and won the Frost & Sullivan Award (2019) for Backline’s secure chat.

  • Expanded beyond the US, strengthening presence in Canada’s healthcare market.

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Redefining Prescription & Medication Management

Seasia’s collaboration with DrFirst highlights how healthcare automation solutions, cloud infrastructure, and testing services can transform digital health. By combining enterprise data warehouse for healthcare, interoperability solutions, and secure messaging platforms, Seasia helped DrFirst achieve reliability, scalability, and compliance at scale.

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