Case Study: GeriMed achieves HIPAA-compliant, scalable IT and near-perfect uptime with Flexential

Innovative Data-Driven Tools and Services Benefit Community Pharmacies and Manufacturing Partners

GeriMed, founded in 1983 as the first long-term care group purchasing organization, has evolved into a group service organization providing advanced tools and analytics to independent pharmacies. Rapid, organic growth—now serving more than 1,100 pharmacies after adding about 400 in recent years—exposed limitations in its multi-vendor, on-prem IT environment, causing periodic downtime and threatening critical, HIPAA-regulated online services and reporting.

GeriMed moved to a Flexential hybrid IT solution—colocating equipment in a secure Louisville data center and using Flexential’s hosted private cloud—gaining enterprise-grade security, redundancy and high availability (including 99.999% cloud uptime). The result: no outages since migration, seamless support for remote work during the pandemic, scalable capacity for about 50,000 files per month (≈3 million records total) and the ability to sustain continued hyper-speed growth.

GeriMed

Karen Sims

Vice President of IT Services and Data Management