Navigating a highly regulated and evolving healthcare landscape
The healthcare industry is one of the most heavily regulated sectors, demanding unwavering reliability, stringent security, and constant availability. Oiva Health faces the complex task of delivering innovative digital health services while navigating a complex web of compliance requirements – most notably, the stringent demands of the European GDPR, but also other critical healthcare and data protection frameworks.
“In healthcare, the trust you are given is absolute. You’re handling the most personal data people have – their health. You must protect it with transparency, security, and reliability.”
Johannes Holvitie, Chief Technology Officer at Oiva Health
The need for absolute trust and transparency, especially when dealing with sensitive health data, is paramount and it was exactly what led Oiva Health to UpCloud some 8 years ago.
Since then, new challenges have emerged, derived from rapid advancements in technology, particularly in AI. This presents both immense opportunities for efficiency and significant regulatory hurdles, such as the current restrictions on automated decision-making on human health matters.
“We could immediately apply machine learning in five to ten use cases and gain tenfold efficiency,” says Johannes. “But we need the regulatory structure to support that innovation safely.”
Collaboration and agility with UpCloud
Oiva Health recognized the necessity of a cloud partner that could offer not just infrastructure but also a co-development mentality. Collaboration with UpCloud stems from a shared vision of building a critical infrastructure that can be continuously modified while running essential client processes.
“We needed a partner who could help define and deliver infrastructure we can modify in real-time while running critical systems for our clients,” Johannes explains. Given healthcare’s strict requirements around uptime and data integrity, UpCloud’s performance, reliability and 99.999% SLA were a natural fit.
Employing a multi-cloud and hybrid strategy, Oiva Health ensures agility and control across their diverse production environments, leveraging tools such as Terraform and embracing infrastructure as code principles. This enables them to run services as close to clients as possible, minimizing latency, while maintaining a centralized overview of infrastructure.
“It’s a business enabler. In healthcare, sometimes hybrid is non-negotiable.” states Johannes.
Empowering digital healthcare for the future
In addition to safeguarding sensitive data, Oiva Health has enhanced operational efficiency and achieved cost savings. As a testament to this, the EBITDA growth YoY is 22%.
Furthermore, in leveraging UpCloud’s services, Oiva enables their internal teams to concentrate on their core expertise, bolstering its product offering and adding value to customers and end users alike. Testament to this, Oiva has expanded to four countries and experienced 35% CAGR during the last 5 years.
In embracing the complexities of the healthcare landscape as opportunities for innovation and selecting UpCloud European cloud infrastructure, Oiva Health is not just keeping pace with the digital transformation of healthcare, but actively shaping its future.
At UpCloud, we are excited to see Oiva Health going from strength to strength and look forward to being part of their journey.
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