Health System Leads the Charge in Cloud Data Migration
Challenge
It is no small feat for an academic medical center’s engineering team to launch an initiative to move protected health information to the cloud. The transition is delicate given the importance of maintaining HIPAA compliance and data security. Conventional wisdom states that protected health information is more securely hosted within on-premises servers.
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Solution
Duke’s enterprise IT development team partnered with Caktus developers to build out the required technology. Together, the teams navigated and tested a variety of HIPAA-compliant AWS services to construct the overall architecture.
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Results
The initial scope allowed for Caktus to deploy one application to the cloud as a proof-of-concept. The rapidly repeatable IaC approach then opened the door for deployment of two additional applications. The Caktus team built a nimble, scalable hosting and deployment system that will allow the health system’s developers to easily add capacity as use of their applications increases.