Digitalized healthcare: KVBW focuses on IT efficiency & agility

As a key service provider in the healthcare sector, the Baden-Württemberg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVBW) is dedicated to ensuring comprehensive healthcare for people throughout the German federal state. State-of-the-art IT infrastructure is essential for maximum efficiency and rapid billing processes for outpatient healthcare services.

KVBW was faced with the challenge of renewing its large software stack for its self-developed software. The outdated framework, which is used to bill and process payments from health insurance companies to doctors in Baden-Württemberg and to digitally map administrative processes with doctors, was to be replaced by modern Spring Boot and Angular apps. An on-premise environment was chosen for better protection of health data. This is where MHP came into play and supported KVBW with comprehensive expertise in containerization, DevOps and Kubernetes to provide the best possible infrastructure.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for the automated deployment, scaling, and management of container applications. Users can use these applications to efficiently orchestrate and operate complex application landscapes with great flexibility.

Manual deployments and complex, individual development tests are now a thing of the past. All deployments and subsequent integration tests now run automatically on the Kubernetes platform. The increased level of automation of the KVBW container infrastructure (infrastructure-as-code) means that requests and software releases can now be executed quickly and with great flexibility.

Highly automated monitoring oversees scores of parameters across the entire software environment. The relevant employees are notified and informed when problems arise. Potential improvements are identified more quickly as part of the operation and constant monitoring of the platform. These improvements are then incorporated into the sprints as specific stories.

The joint project between KVBW and MHP impressively demonstrates how innovative IT solutions can be used to significantly advance digitalization in companies – in the healthcare sector and beyond. MHP’s expertise in the development and operation of modern, scalable, and high availability software platforms played a key role in the success of this project.