HIPAA Hardening for a Healthcare Data Platform
A healthcare data company had a working patient-facing analytics portal on AWS. The next phase had one requirement: take it from staging to a HIPAA-hardened production posture.
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A healthcare data company ran a working patient-facing analytics portal on ECS Fargate, built with Node.js and Prisma on PostgreSQL. It worked, but working software and audit-ready software are two different problems.
The next phase had a single requirement: make the platform HIPAA-compliant and production-grade.
What We Built
Private, Encrypted Networking
We moved the ECS Fargate services into private subnets and put TLS end to end using ACM, so protected health information stays encrypted in transit and off the public internet.
Managed Database Migration
We migrated the database to Aurora PostgreSQL with proper HTTPS and certificate setup, for durability and managed failover.
Fixed the Network Architecture
We found and resolved a regional NAT gateway architecture issue that was breaking connectivity, then hardened the surrounding setup.
Milestone-Based Production Buildout
We delivered the production infrastructure as a milestone-based engagement across three milestones, so the move from staging to production stayed controlled.
The Result
- The platform moved from a staging setup to a HIPAA-hardened production posture on AWS.
- Protected health information is encrypted in transit and at rest, running on private networking with managed, replicated data.
Technology
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