Life Imaging · Healthcare Imaging
Re-architecting a HIPAA-compliant radiology pipeline processing 10TB of medical imaging data per day
Fractional CTO + healthcare infrastructure transformation
87.5%
Failure Rate Reduction
50%
File Size Reduction
10TB/day
Data Processed
The Situation
Life Imaging FLA operates preventive health screening centers across Florida, processing thousands of scans daily. Their DICOM transfer pipeline was failing under load — 40% retry rates, partial corruptions, and 30-minute delays per scan — threatening their expansion from 10 centers to 50.
What We Did
- —Stepped in as Fractional CTO to diagnose the failing DICOM pipeline and design a production-grade replacement
- —Architected a hybrid Azure IoT Edge pipeline with edge modules at each imaging center for local ingestion, validation, and compression
- —Built an idempotent messaging layer with zero data loss guarantees, even during network outages
- —Implemented JPEG-LS lossless compression, reducing file sizes by 50% without diagnostic quality loss
- —Delivered end-to-end HIPAA compliance with full audit trails and encryption at rest and in transit
Outcomes
- —Reduced transfer failure rates from 40% to under 5% — an 87.5% improvement
- —Cut scan transfer times from 30+ minutes to under 10 minutes per study
- —50% reduction in storage costs through lossless compression across all centers
- —Pipeline scaled to handle 10TB/day, ready to grow from 10 to 50 centers
“Ganesh was a fantastic CTO. He quickly understood our complex Healthcare SaaS platform and brought structure, clarity, and strong leadership to the team. Delivered real results.”
Tom Graham
CEO, Life Imaging
Related service: Healthcare software development
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