Modernizing a healthcare platform from the inside out
We partnered with One Health Direct to resolve deep-rooted technical debt, stabilize their platform, and build the engineering foundation needed for long-term growth.
About the company
One Health Direct is a healthcare marketing, customer service, and patient engagement company focused on supplying innovative treatment options delivered directly to patients' homes. OHD simplifies the entire qualification, billing, and fulfillment process for both patients and physicians - enabling better, more efficient management of chronic healthcare conditions through a network of strategic partners and subsidiaries.
As the company scaled, Motum came in to reduce technical debt, accelerate innovation, and establish a scalable, high-performing technology foundation for continued growth.
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The challenge
- The platform carried significant technical debt accumulated over years, creating instability and slowing down any new development.
- Outdated engineering practices - no automated testing, no CI/CD pipelines, no code review standards - made the codebase fragile and hard to maintain.
- Critical bugs were impacting performance and reliability in a healthcare environment where uptime and data integrity are non-negotiable.
- Legacy PHP systems were limiting scalability and responsiveness, with no clear path to modernization.
- The team needed engineers who could immediately stabilize, then systematically improve, a complex and sensitive production environment.
Key pain points
Significant technical debt
Critical platform bugs & instability
Outdated legacy PHP architecture
No CI/CD, testing, or documentation
Performance & security gaps
The solution
Motum built and embedded a team of highly skilled engineers into One Health Direct's organization, tackling stabilization and modernization in parallel - while maintaining lose alignment with business stakeholders throughout.
Resolved critical bugs, improved system performance, and restored reliability across the production environment
Introduced agile methodologies, robust code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive documentation
Refactored PHP systems into modern Node.js and Vue.js applications for a faster, more responsive user experience
Standardized coding practices and cloud-ready architectures to improve security, maintainability, and future-proofing
Continuous collaboration with leadership to ensure technical work mapped directly to business objectives and knowledge transfer
Tech stack
PHP
Vue.js
JavaScript
MySQL
REST APIs
Gitlab
Docker
AWS
Jest
Highlights and impact
Platform stabilized with critical bugs resolved and system performancesignificantly improved
Legacy PHP systemssuccessfully refactored into modern Node.js and Vue.js
Technical debt reduced, unlocking faster and more confident product iteration
CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code standards introduced from the ground up
Scalable, cloud-ready architecture established as the foundation for continued growth
Seamless knowledge transfer ensured the internal team could own and maintain the modernized platform
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