How ClearDATA Helped Azra AI Solve Compliance & Security Challenges While Scaling
At A Glance:
- Key Challenge: Managing complex healthcare data securely while ensuring compliance and scalability as Azra AI expanded to hundreds of hospitals.
- Solution Provided: ClearDATA’s HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure, security automation, and multi-tenant architecture support for scalability and data protection.
- Outcome: Enhanced compliance and security posture, seamless expansion, and improved efficiency in delivering AI-driven oncology solutions.
Advancing Oncology Through AI and Secure Cloud Technology
Azra AI is pioneering artificial intelligence in oncology care, providing advanced tools that help healthcare providers detect cancer earlier, optimize treatment decisions, and streamline patient care. With its AI-powered solutions supporting nurse navigators, tumor boards, and cancer registries, Azra AI plays a crucial role in improving cancer care.
However, managing millions of sensitive pathology and radiology reports while maintaining compliance with stringent regulations like HIPAA and HITRUST presented a significant challenge. As Azra AI expanded its hospital network, ensuring secure data management at scale became a top priority.
To tackle these challenges, Azra AI turned to ClearDATA for secure, compliant cloud infrastructure designed specifically for healthcare.
Challenges
Navigating Complex Data Management and Compliance
Azra AI’s mission is to identify cancer diagnoses, suspicious incidental findings, and high-risk screenings in real-time, connect patients to care sooner, and manage their entire care journey—all through one platform. This platform has the ability to harness vast collections of healthcare data—specifically, hundreds of millions of pathology and radiology reports. These datasets are leveraged to train AI models, enabling early cancer detection and precise identification of primary tumor sites or incidental findings from radiology scans. However, managing such a massive trove of healthcare data comes with high stakes.
Compliance with HIPAA regulations, safeguarding sensitive patient information, and adhering to healthcare-specific frameworks such as HITRUST were non-negotiable for Azra AI. With clients across multiple large hospital systems, Azra AI also needed to cater to custom data configurations while securing individual client environments. The challenge intensified as their customer base grew to encompass hundreds of hospitals, demanding scalable solutions.
Achieving Reliable Security in a Rapidly Scaling Environment
Another critical challenge for Azra AI revolved around security. With its reliance on cloud-native operations and high volumes of sensitive healthcare records being processed, a breach could have catastrophic effects—both in terms of patient privacy and organizational reputation. Implementing secure and efficient multi-tenant infrastructure was essential, especially for scaling into smaller hospitals while maintaining affordability and security.
Lastly, as a rapidly growing company, Azra AI needed a partner that can support its ambitions to expand into new domains such as cardiology and neurology, ensure system interoperability across different clouds, and future-proof its data operations—all within a secure and compliant framework.
Solution
ClearDATA’s Secure Infrastructure
Recognizing these challenges, Azra AI partnered with ClearDATA to implement a secure cloud infrastructure rooted in compliance and scalability. ClearDATA’s platform provided Azra AI with cloud environments that adhered to HIPAA regulations and HITRUST standards, integrating the necessary controls to protect sensitive patient data across multiple cloud tenants.
Azra AI relied on ClearDATA’s infrastructure to ensure client-specific data isolation through dedicated, HIPAA-compliant Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects. Each hospital system operates within its own private cloud tenant, preventing cross-tenant data leakage and ensuring the highest levels of privacy and security. Data anonymization protocols were also introduced to protect patient identities throughout Azra AI’s AI training processes.
Scalable Multi-Tenant Strategy for 2025
ClearDATA is supporting Azra AI in its transition towards a multi-tenant architecture, which is a pivotal goal for 2025. This architectural upgrade ensures affordability and scalability for smaller hospitals while maintaining end-to-end data security. Utilizing robust HL7 standards, ClearDATA facilitated seamless workflows for data ingestion and transformation, further minimizing manual configuration complexities.
Ongoing Support and Compliance Assistance
Operational support remained a hallmark of the partnership. Weekly compliance reports were monitored in partnership with ClearDATA to ensure infrastructure alignment with HIPAA requirements. Penetration testing and incident response services were integrated alongside Azra AI’s internal security protocols, creating a layered safety net against vulnerabilities.
ClearDATA also proved invaluable in developing future-proof strategies for Azra AI’s multi-cloud aspirations. By disentangling Azra AI’s core cloud services from dependencies on any single provider, ClearDATA has ensured that their applications could seamlessly adapt to client demands, whether on Google Cloud, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
Outcome
Enhanced Security and Compliance
ClearDATA’s infrastructure and services brought immediate, measurable improvements to Azra AI’s data security and compliance practices. Hosting Azra AI’s client-facing environments exclusively within ClearDATA’s HIPAA-compliant cloud environments significantly minimized risks of data breaches, while frequent auditing ensured consistent improvements. Azra AI’s compliance rate currently averages 94-95%, with plans to surpass 97% in the near future—a testament to the efficacy of this partnership.
Scalable Growth Across Hospital Systems
The partnership with ClearDATA enabled Azra AI to seamlessly scale its services to hundreds of hospitals while preparing for growth into new specialties such as cardiology and neurology. ClearDATA’s support in transitioning to a multi-tenant design ensures Azra AI can accommodate growing demand from smaller hospitals without compromising affordability or security.
Operational Efficiency and Innovation
Azra AI’s engineering and AI teams, supported by a stable and secure cloud environment, have been able to maintain rapid, biweekly product release cycles. This operational efficiency has translated into better client satisfaction, fewer escalations, and the freedom to focus on innovation in areas such as conversational AI and agent-driven insights.
“At Azra AI, we heavily rely on ClearDATA’s services to ensure our solutions meet the highest standards of HIPAA compliance, security, and privacy. Their expertise is invaluable to our operations.” Nias Puthenveettil, CTO
The Path Forward
The partnership between Azra AI and ClearDATA exemplifies how secure cloud technology can act as a catalyst for innovation in the healthcare sector. By combining Azra AI’s groundbreaking AI tools with ClearDATA’s expertise in security, compliance, and scaling, this collaboration is transforming oncology care. Patients benefit from faster diagnoses, more efficient care coordination, and innovative tools that make cancer care journeys safer and easier.
ClearDATA’s role extends beyond infrastructure, supporting Azra AI’s leadership as they plan for multi-tenant and multi-cloud strategies, explore new clinical areas, and adopt off-the-shelf AI models for further efficiency.
As this partnership continues to evolve, it reaffirms the power of secure cloud solutions in enabling healthcare technologies to change lives while safeguarding the trust of their users. Together with ClearDATA, Azra AI is well-positioned to redefine oncology care for years to come.
“ClearDATA is more than a service provider; they are a key partner in our mission to deliver secure and compliant healthcare AI solutions. Their commitment to excellence aligns perfectly with our values.”
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