Tegria
Electronic Health Records Hosting Provider Uses Fortinet to Boost Performance and Reliability While Cutting Costs
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Tegria offers healthcare providers access to managed technology platforms. Its cloud hosting business provides remote access to the MEDITECH electronic health records (EHR) system. With cybersecurity and network uptime key considerations for healthcare providers, Tegria needed to optimize the way it separates its customers’ MEDITECH systems within its cloud infrastructure.
Today, Tegria runs its 40+ customer MEDITECH instances in virtual environments, each protected with a high availability (HA) pair of FortiGate virtual Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). Tegria runs its hosted services through the firewalls, which simplifies configuration and enhances customer isolation. The FortiGate NGFWs are augmented with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services for antivirus, URL filtering, and automated application control capabilities. Within each customer site, Tegria installs and manages physical FortiGate NGFWs enabled with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to manage the connections back to the Tegria data center. With its new system in place, Tegria has been able to improve the resilience and performance of its network for a better customer experience, while reducing the total cost of ownership.
“The VM solution enables us to scale our costs to meet customer needs. Rather than buy an appliance that is big enough to handle the traffic growth we expect, we can just buy VMs as needed.”
– Jeff Taylor, Supervisor of Network Engineering, Tegria Cloud Hosting
Business Impact
Streamlined failover so customers do not even notice issues with circuits
Faster resolution of connectivity issues with customer circuits
Improved disaster recovery through easy restores to a remote data center
Performance adequate for latency-sensitive electronic health record system
Reduced total cost of ownership and increased business agility
Faster threat detection and response due to improvements in network visibility
Less staff time required for day-to-day management of customer networks
New staff and IT professionals in other departments can get up to speed very quickly
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