CASE STUDY

Turning Match Day Dreams Into Realities

Client: NRMP^®

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At a glance

Challenge

NRMP^® had outgrown its infrastructure and needed to evolve to maintain its system’s performance and security—especially during peak business events.

Result

Pariveda helped migrate NRMP^® to the AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud with significant and long-lasting process improvements.

Impact

NRMP^®now has a dependable, secure, and adaptable platform, which continues to take advantage of AWS services.

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP®) is a private, nonprofit organization with a twofold mission: match healthcare professionals to graduate medical education and advanced training programs through an orderly and fair mechanism; and provide meaningful and accessible match data and analysis to stakeholders.

Each year, NRMP^® helps more than 44,000 applicants match to more than 37,000 available training positions in their Main Residency Match^®. The mathematical, computerized algorithm used by the NRMP^® has gained international recognition and aligns the preferences of applicants with those of program directors to produce the best possible outcome for filling training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals.

Pariveda helped NRMP® leverage AWS to meet challenging customer demands.

NRMP^® adopted a private cloud architecture in 2012. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of residency positions in their Main Residency Match^® grew by 14% and applicant registrants grew by over 10%. As these numbers climbed year-over-year, it became clear that NRMP^®’s cloud adoption strategy would need to evolve to maintain the system’s performance and security during peak events when system availability and reliability were vital.

How Pariveda helped provide more reliable performance during peak business events, reduced operating costs, and achieved greater maintainability and security:

Pariveda partnered with NRMP®’s CIO to define the organization’s business case, evaluate leading cloud vendors, and estimate TCO (total cost of ownership).
NRMP® selected AWS, and Pariveda executed the migration plan, which allowed NRMP® to conduct its first match in the cloud in March 2017. Pariveda also designed a target architecture and technical approach.
After a successful migration and cutover to AWS, Pariveda partnered with NRMP® to develop automated deployment and backups, automated disaster recovery processes, security scanning, sophisticated applicant monitoring and logging, and performance testing capabilities leveraging AWS’s technology offerings and third-party services.