Hospital networks that run electronic health records on aging on-premises hardware face a familiar set of problems: siloed patient data, outages during peak hours, and rising maintenance costs. This guide describes an EHR architecture built entirely from DAAKYI Cloud services.
The Data Layer
Database VMs in an HA cluster protected by Continuous Data Protection provide the system of record, with scheduled backups and journal-based point-in-time recovery. Patient documents and imaging are stored in DC Object Storage with lifecycle policies that move older records to lower-cost tiers, and lightweight worker VMs process real-time events such as patient alerts and admission workflows.
Security and Access
- All patient data encrypted at rest with customer-managed keys in DC KMS
- Clinician access controlled through DC IAM roles with mandatory MFA
- Every record access written to DC Audit Trails for review
- Network segmentation between clinical, administrative, and public workloads
Why Cloud-Native Matters for Care Delivery
When records are available across facilities in real time, clinicians stop re-ordering tests and patients stop repeating their history. The architecture above is designed so that a facility outage never takes patient records offline — the platform, not the building, is the system of record.
