Secure, Compliant, High-Availability Infrastructure for PHI, EHR & Clinical Ops
Healthcare IT has a different heartbeat: PHI, clinical uptime, imaging scale, and telehealth latency.
SolveForce builds healthcare networks, security, cloud, and data platforms that are HIPAA-aligned, Zero-Trust by default, and measured with SLOs—so clinicians can chart, image, consult, and operate without friction, and auditors can verify every control.
Connective tissue:
🔒 Security → /cybersecurity • 🧠 AI → /solveforce-ai • 🧭 Network → /networks-and-data-centers • 🌐 Connectivity → /connectivity
☁️ Cloud → /cloud • 🔀 SD-WAN → /sd-wan • 🚪 NAC → /nac • 🔐 ZTNA → /ztna • 🛡️ SASE → /sase
💾 Continuity → /cloud-backup • /backup-immutability • /draas
🧬 Data → /data-warehouse • /etl-elt • /vector-databases
🎯 Outcomes (Why SolveForce for Healthcare)
- Clinical uptime — networks & apps with measured SLOs for EHR, imaging, PACS/VNA, LIMS, telehealth.
- HIPAA-aligned Zero Trust — identity-, device-, and data-aware policy across LAN/WAN/cloud/edge.
- Proven privacy & security — encryption, DLP, key custody, immutable logs/backups with evidence.
- Fast, compliant data exchange — FHIR/HL7 pipelines to payers, exchanges, and analytics safely.
- AI-ready — GPU clusters, imaging pipelines, and guarded RAG with PHI controls.
🧭 Who We Serve
- Hospitals & health systems (acute/ambulatory), IDNs, ASCs, clinics & physician groups
- Imaging centers, labs, pharmacies, behavioral health, telehealth & RPM providers
- Life sciences & research, university medical centers (HIPAA + research overlays)
🧱 Core Capabilities (Spelled Out)
- Clinical Network & Fabric — campus/CAN, MAN/WAN, SD-WAN app-aware steering; segmentation for clinical vs admin vs guest. → /wan • /man • /lan
- Secure Access — 802.1X/NAC + device posture; ZTNA per-app for clinicians & vendors; SASE inspection for web/SaaS. → /nac • /ztna • /sase
- Imaging Backbones — DCI/wavelength for PACS/VNA; SAN/NVMe tiers; jumbo MTU paths. → /wavelength • /san
- Telehealth & RPM — low-latency POPs, QoS for voice/video, identity-first access; mobile/satellite tertiary links. → /mobile-connectivity • /satellite-internet
- Cloud & Data — secure VPC/VNet on-ramps, FHIR lakes/warehouses, ETL/ELT, lineage; vector DB with guarded RAG. → /direct-connect • /data-warehouse • /etl-elt • /vector-databases
- Security & IR — EDR/XDR, NDR, SIEM/SOAR playbooks, WAF/Bot at patient portals, DDoS stance; immutable backups & DRaaS. → /mdr-xdr • /ndr • /siem-soar • /waf • /ddos • /cloud-backup • /draas
🩻 Clinical Edge & Imaging
- Imaging paths — deterministic L1/L2 DCI for PACS/VNA; SAN/NVMe/parallel FS for rendering; Anycast for viewers.
- Modality networks — isolated VLAN/VRF for CT/MRI/US; NAC profiling; microsegmentation to PACS/VNA only. → /microsegmentation
- Latency budgets (target p95): workstation↔PACS ≤ 20–40 ms, DCI metro ≤ 1–2 ms, SAN ≤ 0.8 ms.
🔐 Security & Compliance (Healthcare-Specific)
- HIPAA/HITECH — access control, encryption, audit controls, integrity, transmission security.
- 42 CFR Part 2 — stricter privacy for SUD data; label/tag and enforce additional controls.
- NIST 800-66 / 800-53 mapping — AC/IA/AU/CM/IR families tied to SIEM/SOAR evidence.
- EPCS & ePHI — MFA/SSO, step-up for controlled substances; vault/HSM for signing keys. → /iam • /key-management • /secrets-management
- Vendor & biomedical — ZTNA for third-parties; session recording via PAM; device identity & posture gates. → /pam
- Ransomware resilience — immutable backups (Object-Lock), clean-point catalog, DR runbooks with artifacts. → /backup-immutability • /draas
📐 SLO Guardrails (Healthcare Workloads)
| Service / KPI (p95 unless noted) | Target (Recommended) |
|---|---|
| EHR app latency (client→app) | ≤ 50–120 ms (regional) |
| PACS viewer open → first image | ≤ 1.5–3.0 s |
| Imaging DCI latency (one-way, metro) | ≤ 1–2 ms |
| Telehealth audio/video latency | ≤ 120–180 ms end-to-end |
| Clinic WAN availability | ≥ 99.95% with dual underlays |
| Zero Trust attach (ZTNA) | ≤ 1–3 s to first byte |
| Backup immutability coverage (PHI sets) | = 100% |
| Evidence completeness (Sev-1/2) | = 100% (logs, approvals, artifacts) |
SLO breaches auto-open tickets and trigger SOAR (reroute, scale, rollback). → /siem-soar
🧰 Reference Architectures (Pick Your Fit)
A) Hospital Campus (CAN + Zero Trust)
Leaf/spine core; NAC EAP-TLS on all access; microseg for clinical/biomed/guest; ZTNA for vendors; Anycast PACS; SAN + DCI to VNA.
B) Multi-Clinic WAN (SD-WAN + Cloud On-Ramps)
Fiber + LTE/5G dual underlays; SD-WAN brownout steering; SASE for SaaS; private on-ramps to cloud EHR/analytics. → /sd-wan • /sase • /direct-connect
C) Imaging Consortium (Metro DCI)
Wavelength or Lit EPL between sites; jumbo MTU; MACsec/L1 crypto; viewer Anycast; immutable backups to object store. → /wavelength • /lit-fiber
D) Telehealth / RPM Edge
SASE POPs, QoS for voice/video, ZTNA per app; mobile/satellite tertiary; DLP on transcripts; PHI encryption. → /mobile-connectivity • /satellite-internet • /dlp
E) Research & AI (PHI-Aware)
GPU clusters, IB/RoCE fabrics; de-identification/tokenization upstream; guarded RAG with provenance; segmentation for research enclaves. → /bare-metal-gpu • /vector-databases
📊 Observability & Evidence
- Clinical SLO dashboards (EHR/PACS/telehealth), WAN SLOs, Zero-Trust decisions, WAF/DLP hits, backup/DR artifacts.
- Audit packs: access logs, change diffs, key custody statements, 911/NG911 test records (for voice), drill artifacts.
- Streams to SIEM; automation in SOAR for contain/rollback/reporting. → /siem-soar
🛠️ Implementation Blueprint (No-Surprise Rollout)
1) Protect surface — ePHI systems (EHR/PACS/VNA/LIS/RIS, billing, portals); data classes & tags.
2) Identity & posture — SSO/MFA; device certs; MDM/UEM + EDR baselines; PAM for admins. → /iam • /mdm • /mdr-xdr • /pam
3) Access edge — NAC 802.1X wired/Wi-Fi; guest & contractor isolation; dynamic ACL/SGT. → /nac
4) Per-app access — ZTNA/SASE for clinicians & vendors; retire flat VPNs. → /ztna • /sase
5) Segmentation & DCI — microseg intents; PACS/VNA paths; metro waves/Lit EPL for imaging. → /microsegmentation • /wavelength
6) Data & AI — FHIR/HL7 pipelines, de-identification, warehouse/lake, vector search with citations. → /data-warehouse • /etl-elt • /vector-databases
7) Continuity — immutable backups; DRaaS runbooks; clean-point catalog; regular drills. → /backup-immutability • /draas
8) Evidence — SIEM dashboards, SOAR playbooks, monthly compliance health.
✅ Pre-Engagement Checklist
- 🧩 In-scope systems: EHR/PACS/VNA/LIS/RIS, portals, billing, telehealth, research.
- 🔐 Identity & device posture: SSO/MFA, MDM/UEM, EDR; vendor access model.
- 🧭 Segmentation & network: NAC status, VRF/VLAN map, DCI needs, SD-WAN policy.
- 💾 Backup/DR: RPO/RTO tiers, Object-Lock scope; drill cadence.
- 🧬 Data pipelines: FHIR/HL7, ETL/ELT, de-identification/tokenization requirements.
- 📊 SIEM/SOAR destinations, SLO targets, audit/report cadence.
- 🧾 Regulatory overlays: HIPAA/HITECH, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy, payer mandates.
🔄 Where Healthcare Fits (Recursive View)
1) Grammar — clinical traffic rides /connectivity & /networks-and-data-centers.
2) Syntax — delivered via /cloud, CAN/WAN, imaging DCI, and telehealth edges.
3) Semantics — /cybersecurity preserves PHI truth; keys/logs/backups prove control.
4) Pragmatics — /solveforce-ai predicts risk & load, suggests safe routing/policy changes.
5) Foundation — coherent terms via /primacy-of-language.
6) Map — indexed in the /solveforce-codex & /knowledge-hub.
📞 Modernize Healthcare IT—Securely, Quickly, and with Proof
Related pages:
/cybersecurity • /sd-wan • /nac • /ztna • /sase • /wavelength • /san • /cloud • /data-warehouse • /etl-elt • /vector-databases • /siem-soar • /cloud-backup • /backup-immutability • /draas • /knowledge-hub