Healthcare Provider Secures High-Performance Apps with Cloudflare Compliance-Ready Solutions
Client Overview
This case features a healthcare institution focused on medical care and digital health management, serving patients from around the world.
To ensure patient data security and compliance with international standards (such as GDPR, HIPAA, PHI), while delivering an efficient digital healthcare experience, the organization sought to strengthen its security and performance through cloud-based solutions.
Key Challenges
During digital transformation, the healthcare institution faced the following challenges:
- Meeting international cybersecurity and compliance standards
- Required compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PHI to ensure the security of medical data.
- Required compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PHI to ensure the security of medical data.
- Protecting against bots and DDoS attacks to ensure system stability
- Malicious bots and scrapers frequently accessed medical data, affecting system performance and security.
- DDoS attacks could bring down healthcare systems, so continuous access for doctors and patients was critical.
- Handling high-traffic surges during vaccination campaigns
- After launching a vaccination initiative, traffic spiked to over 2 million overnight, placing enormous load on the website.
- Required a scalable traffic control solution to ensure uninterrupted medical appointments and virtual consultations.
Cloudflare Solution & Benefits
By implementing Cloudflare WAF, DDoS Protection, CDN, Bot Management, Waiting Room, and Cloudflare Images, the healthcare institution enhanced both its security and system performance, gaining the following benefits:
✅ WAF & DDoS protection to secure patient data
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) instantly blocks malicious requests, protecting patient data from cyber threats.
- DDoS mitigation technology shields healthcare apps and scheduling systems to ensure uninterrupted service.
✅ Cloudflare Images for optimized storage and delivery
- Automatic adjustment and optimization of medical images helps reduce storage and bandwidth costs while maintaining quick access.
- Improved delivery speeds ensure smooth viewing across all devices—phones, computers, and medical terminals.
✅ Waiting Room + Traffic Management for peak periods
- Cloudflare Waiting Room enables rapid deployment of traffic control during surges, keeping vaccination bookings and services online.
- Smart traffic distribution allows patients to smoothly access consultation and registration services even during peak times.
Results & Business Impact
🚀 System performance improved—patients and medical staff access smoothly
- Website speed improved by 12%, enabling faster access to medical data for both patients and staff.
- Optimized image delivery and storage reduced bandwidth and storage costs by 89%, enhancing system efficiency.
🔐 Cyber defense boosted, blocking over 37,000 attacks monthly
- Prevented large-scale DDoS and bot attacks, securing healthcare apps and databases.
- Bot Management ensured patient data was not misused by scrapers, enhancing data privacy.
💡 Simplified operations and boosted IT efficiency
- Automated updates and threat defense reduced the maintenance workload on IT staff.
- Centralized dashboard for all security and performance settings made system management easier for the IT team.
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