Midiway, Cegedim Group

Cegedim is a worldwide technologies and services company, specialized in the health sector. With 8 100 employees in 80 countries, Cegedim offers service delivery, computer tools, specialized softwares, flow management services and databases.

Midiway is operating as an internet agency specialized in value-added services presentation to the general public and professionals, in synergy with the Insurance center and more generally with Cegedim Group.

Need

One of Cegedim’s major american client, performing business consulting for its customers (hospitals, clinics, laboratories), wanted to start a paper free approach for its audit procedures, using touch-screen pad. Midiway, a Cegedim Group company, requested our expertise and reactivity for the realization of this solution (tactile application and back office).

Solution

As the application should be cross-platform, we advised an hybrid development, building most of the application using web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) and integrate this web app to a native application through the WebView component. The final result is a standard application distributing, settling  and executing like any other one.  To ensure the best implementation of an application with this approach, we based its development on the PhoneGap Open Source frameworks.

Concerning the back office, we performed its first test using the Play framework. Play is a productive Java framework which enables to develop web management application with Java.  Communication between the touchpad app and the back office has been implemented in REST (JSON) Web Services on the HTTP protocol.