The Challenge
MedConnect operated critical EHR (Electronic Health Records) infrastructure across two ageing on-premise data centres. Hardware refresh costs exceeded $1.2M annually, and the team struggled to meet HIPAA audit requirements with manual compliance documentation.
Our Approach
- Landing Zone — Built a HIPAA-eligible AWS landing zone with AWS Control Tower, SCPs, and encrypted VPCs across 2 regions.
- Database Migration — Used AWS DMS for continuous replication from on-prem PostgreSQL to RDS with zero-downtime cutover via DNS failover.
- Security Hardening — Deployed WAF rulesets, GuardDuty threat detection, and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management with auto-rotation.
- Compliance Automation — Built automated evidence collection pipelines for HIPAA audits — reducing prep time from weeks to hours.
Results
The migration saved $840K per year in infrastructure costs. Audit preparation dropped from 3 weeks to 2 days. The platform now auto-scales during peak clinic hours and provides sub-100ms response times globally via CloudFront.
"The migration was seamless — our clinical staff didn't notice a thing. That's the highest compliment I can give." — CISO, MedConnect
