EXECOM headquarters, Novi Sad, Serbia – A year and a half after the very first successfully delivered project two software companies, Chess ibusiness and EXECOM continue to cooperate. One of the very successful projects was delivered on time, within budget and led to new cooperation.
Project overview
The existing application of Chess’ customer – company specialized in data depersonalization was no longer able to satisfy complex requirements. The purpose of the solution that was to be developed would be adding new features to system for depersonalization of confident medical data and their flow between three companies: Agency for statistics, Customer Company and Government Agency. The flow is simple: the first party collects medical history data and submits the input file to a Government Agency through the Central module of the customer company. But the catch was in retaining the anonymity of medical patients. During transition medical history data must not reveal privacy related details to any of included participants. Accordingly, it was necessary to provide more secure service to end users and reliable reporting system where privacy is guaranteed by substituting personal details with pseudonyms. Additional security measure would be ensured by implementing secure FTP protocol for data interchange.
Execom solution
Regarding previously successfully delivered projects, EXECOM was once again Chess’ choice for an outsourcing partner. The part of EXECOM’s job was to develop a system for:
• sending the input file
• creating delivery reports and
• final report process
Solution had to be implemented without using a database. Another great technical challenge of delivering such a system was that 2GB of input data had to be processed within 30 minutes. Finally, project was strictly time-constrained:
The first step for EXECOM developers was to depersonalize real medical history and personal data collected in the input file which is later parsed to output file “on the fly”. That way parsing application stays lightweight utilizing system resources intelligently.
When the file is sent by secure FTP server to the customer company, newly developed system creates delivery reports. Upon the reception of the file the Central module of the Customer Company depersonalizes the content of the file once more to guarantee the security. The flow of the file continues to Government Agency in the form of zipped txt file. As a confirmation of the successful reception, the system creates parsing report. At the end the goal is achieved: the final medical report containing no personal related information monitored by the Government.
Benefits
This project fulfilled all input requirements. It was delivered on time, within budget and fully satisfied quality expectations. It led to a full satisfaction of all companies involved. The greatest benefits can be seen as follows:
• EXECOM deployed reliable system which can be used for various purposes and by different companies;
• Chess and EXECOM have established a strong partnership which continues with new projects;
• The customer company continued cooperation with both EXECOM and Chess;
• Data security has been brought up to a greater level;
• Employees have shared knowledge and promoted the latest technologies;
• EXECOM team has once again showed great flexibility and open mindset.
Contact:
Aleksandra Popara,
Communications Manager
E: apopara@execom.eu
W: www.execom.eu
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