The Challenges of Building a First-of-its-kind AI Platform
pRxcision is pioneering the first-ever AI platform for Infectious Disease, to improve antibiotic prescribing and dosing for critical infections in hospitals. The solution is the first multi-tenant SaaS platform to integrate with multiple EHR systems, including EPIC and Cerner, enhancing patient outcomes and boosting hospital and payer financial results through personalized medicine.
However, their ambitious decision to build the system from scratch and ensure it meets the intense, real-time demands of a clinical setting brought a distinct set of challenges:
- Complex Scientific and Clinical Logic: The system had to harness and incorporate extensive, highly specialized scientific and clinical knowledge to deliver clinically relevant recommendations.
- Extreme Performance Requirements: The platform needed to perform hundreds of thousands of complex calculations and simulations for each patient in just a few seconds to provide real-time decision support at the point of care.
- Multiple Clinical Workflow Integrations: To be effective, the solution had to integrate directly with major EHR systems such as EPIC and Cerner, making it accessible within existing clinician workflows.
- Strict Compliance: As a multi-tenant SaaS platform handling sensitive patient data, the system must achieve HITRUST and HIPAA compliance.
pRxcision needed an engineering partner with deep expertise in healthcare, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, complex EHR integrations, and high-performance development to bring their life-saving ideas to market.
Engineering a High-Performance AI Platform
KMS Technology ramped up a dedicated team to build the platform from the ground up, delivering a comprehensive solution package, including:
1. Cloud-Native, Multi-Tenant SaaS Platform
We built a highly configurable, cloud-based platform on Azure, offering extensive customization and personalization for each hospital tenant while ensuring robust security and data segregation. The solution aligns with healthcare compliance requirements such as HIPAA, supports automated backups and disaster recovery, and provides centralized observability for proactive monitoring.
2. Powerful Mathematical Simulation Engine
At the core of the solution, we developed a custom, high-performance mathematical engine capable of executing the hundreds of thousands of required simulations and calculations in seconds, meeting the extreme performance demands.
3. Seamless EHR Integration
We achieved seamless, bi-directional integration with major EHR platforms, starting with EPIC and Cerner, which cover 70% of the market. The architecture was designed with the flexibility to expand to other EHR systems in the future. Data mappings, consent models, and error handling are standardized so that additional EHRs can be onboarded with minimal rework while maintaining clinical safety and data integrity.
4. Intuitive User Interface
We designed a clean, intuitive UI that provides clinicians with real-time data updates and clinically relevant recommendations directly within their workflow, ensuring high adoption and usability. In-app guidance, audit trails, and quick actions reduce clicks and cognitive load, while responsive design ensures consistent performance on desktops, tablets, and workstations-on-wheels.
5. Microservices Architecture
The entire platform was built on a modern microservices architecture to ensure component-specific scalability, high availability, and the ability to deploy updates swiftly, enhancing market readiness and future-proofing the solution. Centralized logging, metrics, and tracing support rapid root-cause analysis and fault isolation, allowing the platform to evolve quickly without disrupting clinical operations.
“KMS Technology epitomizes excellence in healthcare technology, surpassing all expectations. Their relentless commitment and innovative approach continually elevate our collaboration, enriching our venture with invaluable insights. KMS reaffirms our confidence in our partnership, solidifying their position as our trusted ally.”
Entering the Market with Confidence
The partnership between KMS Technology and pRxcision successfully transformed a bold vision into a tangible, market-ready AI platform. By providing deep technical expertise and relentless execution, KMS enabled pRxcision to successfully deploy its platform in the first hospital, marking a successful entry into the market and validating the platform’s viability.
The results are a testament to our shared commitment. The complex, first-of-its-kind platform was designed, built, and delivered in just 13 months. The successful deployment in the first hospital laid the groundwork for future growth and success. The platform was built from the ground up to meet stringent security and HITRUST compliance standards, ensuring trust and scalability from day one.
“I could not think of anyone else that I would want to work with, as the KMS team has done amazing in all aspects. Every opportunity they have to cut corners, they don’t. They continue to do the right thing. They keep showing me that I selected the right partner.”
KMS provided the end-to-end engineering capabilities pRxcision needed to overcome immense technical challenges and bring its revolutionary, life-saving AI platform to the world.