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Overview
North Shore Long-Island Jewish (NSLIJ) Health System is a lynchpin of the New York State healthcare infrastructure. With 17 hospitals, a home-care network, a hospice network, various nursing facilities, outpatient care centers and rehabilitation programs, NSLIJ serves an area of seven million people in Long Island, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
NS-LIJ employs 47,000 people making it the largest private employer in the state. This workforce, along with thousands of contract physicians and other staff, deliver a truly impressive array of healthcare services from prenatal wellness to end-of-life care and very nearly everything in between.
Why Drupal was chosen
The primary requirement of NSLIJ to move to open source was to have good content editorial features and complex searching algorithm to have an efficient search mechanism across various departments that they have. They also need to host multi-sites for each of their departments. In addition, they wanted to cut down the costs on their existing CMS which has licensing associated to it.
Drupal formed the best option for them since it has a ready-made integration with Apache Solr, powerful content editorial features with modules like Workbench. Drupal has a powerful multi-site concept which helped to build the site for each department while keeping the codebase same and database different.
Technical Specifications
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Architecture
NSLIJ is hosted with scalable web components having Load Balancers, Primary and Secondary databases, Varnish to serve anonymous traffic, Apache Solr with faceted search enabled. Apache Solr has been configured to index thousands of items.
We have actively participated in the solution for architecting the Apache Solr to meet the client’s requirements. Search is being categorized primarily on all the categories or specific to Doctors, Locations, Treatments & Services and Conditions. Thereafter they are being sub-categorized based on the parent category. So a multi-level hierarchy was there while performing the search.
