Faith Foundation Mission Hospital – Modernized Patient Data Infrastructure on AWS
Faith Foundation Mission Hospital
About FFMH
Faith Foundation Mission Hospital (FFMH) is a Nigerian healthcare organization based in Nsukka, managing patient data, clinical operations, and healthcare service delivery for a growing patient base.
Industry
Healthcare
Location
Nsukka, Nigeria
Use Cases
Patient Data Management, Interoperability, Security & Compliance, Monitoring
Overview
Transnet Cloud facilitated FFMH's migration to AWS, modernizing the hospital's patient data infrastructure in Nsukka, Nigeria, to support growing clinical operations with a more reliable, secure, and interoperable foundation.
The Challenge
FFMH struggled to manage expanding patient volumes and clinical operations on its existing systems, which created operational dependencies, increased the risk of manual errors, and made it more difficult to scale healthcare services efficiently.
Proposed Solution & Architecture
Transnet Cloud implemented a secure AWS architecture centered on managed database services and standardized healthcare data interoperability for FFMH's patient records environment.
Database, Interoperability & Network
Amazon RDS
Managed database service for patient records with automated backups and encryption
Amazon HealthLake
Standardized healthcare data store enabling FHIR-based interoperability across clinical systems
Amazon VPC
Isolated network environment separating clinical and administrative workloads
Security & Identity
AWS IAM
Role-based, least-privilege access control across the AWS environment
AWS KMS
Centralized encryption key management protecting patient data at rest
Amazon GuardDuty
Continuous threat detection analyzing AWS activity and security signals for suspicious behavior
Monitoring, Audit & Compliance
AWS CloudTrail
Full audit trail of administrative and API activity across the AWS environment
Amazon CloudWatch
Centralized monitoring of infrastructure and application performance and availability
AWS Config
Continuous evaluation of resource configurations against approved security baselines
Business Outcomes
A secure, interoperable cloud foundation for FFMH's patient data and clinical operations.
Enhanced database reliability supporting consistent access to patient records
Reduced infrastructure administration through managed AWS database and monitoring services
Strengthened patient data protection through encryption and least-privilege access control
Improved clinical data accessibility across care teams via standardized, FHIR-based records
A foundation in place to support future telemedicine capabilities as services expand
Operational Targets
Transnet Cloud and FFMH established the following production reliability, security, and compliance targets for the AWS environment.
≥99.9%
Production Application Availability
100%
Patient Data Encryption Coverage
100%
Production Audit Logging Coverage
≤7 days
Critical Finding Remediation
≥99%
Database Backup Success
0
Unauthorized Public Resource Exposure
Lessons Learned
FFMH's expanding patient volumes had created operational dependencies on manual processes, increasing the risk of errors and making it harder to scale healthcare services efficiently — a clear signal that database and record-keeping infrastructure needed to move to managed AWS services.
Adopting Amazon HealthLake for FHIR-based interoperability gave clinical data a standardized structure from the outset, positioning FFMH to connect future systems and telemedicine services without re-architecting how patient data is stored.
Treating encryption, least-privilege IAM, and centralized key management with AWS KMS as foundational requirements — rather than later additions — kept sensitive patient data protected throughout the migration to AWS.
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