Lane Health's Accelerated Application Development and Cost Reduction through AWS Migration

Lane Health is a healthcare lending company that provides corporate employees with affordable options for paying for healthcare using pre-tax dollars. Through its unique HSA Advance program, employees in High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) who often face financial pressures and obstacles can get an instant line of credit without credit checks, and enjoy predictable repayment terms with tax savings and zero costs to employers. Employers also enjoy savings through this program as they reduce their payroll tax obligations. The program can be managed via a set of dedicated HSA Advance applications for employees, employers, and administrators.

Lane Health, a healthcare lending company, was facing challenges with its HSA Advance applications. The applications were developed on a no-code platform, which limited their flexibility and posed ownership and maintenance challenges. The applications lacked a proper versioning system or database rollback mechanisms, making each new product release a risky endeavor. They also lacked tools for testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, and database migration and management. Lane Health wanted to improve the HSA Advance applications by making them more secure, scalable, flexible, reliable, and cost-efficient. They were looking for ways to quickly introduce a more advanced technology stack and infrastructure, and to migrate the applications to the AWS cloud. The team hoped to gain capabilities to innovate faster while achieving more stable releases, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership, and achieving HIPAA compliance to store PHI data. The product had to be launched in less than four months, requiring a reliable partner to get it all done.

Lane Health partnered with Provectus, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to migrate its applications to an enterprise-level technology stack and set up an underlying infrastructure on AWS. Provectus reviewed Lane Health’s implementation of the HSA Advance applications to better understand their business logic, external dependencies and data structures, and to assess their compliance level. They designed a reliable, highly available, and HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure, which includes a new data platform, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, alerting, and updates of other critical components of the application. The infrastructure met AWS requirements for security, performance, cost efficiency, and reliability. It featured CI/CD pipelines for automated testing; a centralized hub for logging, monitoring, and alerting; ETL pipelines for user enrollment and data quality verification; and microservices to support core business logic and third-party integrations, and to provide the frontend applications with corresponding APIs. Provectus ensured proper test coverage on each step of the migration, running a series of integration, functional, manual, and end-to-end tests to ensure applications are working as expected and are on par with legacy applications.

• The migration to AWS infrastructure by Provectus enabled Lane Health’s engineering team to develop cloud-native applications from scratch, without the limitations of no-code platforms. The new infrastructure introduced automated CI/CD pipelines, data quality verification pipelines, and required tooling for versioning, automated testing, logging, monitoring, and alerting. The enhancements also made it possible to roll out product updates in just one click. Despite the HSA Advance applications being built from scratch, Provectus ensured that their core business logic did not change as a result of migration, to ensure business continuity. The improvements made by the Provectus team make the HSA Advance applications more agile, flexible, scalable, and secure. Lane Health’s engineering team was able to take full ownership of the solution and achieve stable and regular releases. The changes have put Lane Health in a strong position to innovate and improve its healthcare lending solution faster and more efficiently while enjoying better data protection.

• 60% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership

• HIPAA-compliant Cloud Infrastructure in 4 Months

• Full Transparency and Ownership by the Dev Team