HealthcareData platform and compliance

A governed clinical data platform that passed audit with zero critical findings

Meridian wanted to unify clinical and operational data for new patient-facing features, without putting protected health information at risk.

Client

Meridian Health

Timeline

20 weeks

Platforms

Azure, US regions

Team

4 Synabix engineers embedded with Meridian's data and security teams

critical findings at the external audit

from 3 days to 40 min

to refresh executive reporting

100%

of data access mapped to audited roles

The challenge

Where they started.

Meridian's data sat in a dozen systems that did not agree with each other. Reporting took days, access was inconsistent, and an upcoming audit had the team worried. They needed one trusted source of data and the controls to prove it was safe.

The stack

AzureDatabricksdbtMicrosoft Entra IDAzure MonitorTerraform

What we did

We built a governed lakehouse on Azure with clear ownership, lineage, and role-based access mapped to HIPAA safeguards.
Pipelines were rebuilt to be reliable and observable, so the numbers were current rather than a week old.
Security was designed in: encryption, centralized logging, least-privilege identity, and a documented access model.
We ran a mock audit, closed the gaps it found, and left runbooks the team uses to stay ready.

For the first time we can answer an auditor's question with evidence, not a promise. The data platform paid for itself the week reporting went from three days to under an hour.

Dr. Aaron WhitfieldChief Medical Information Officer, Meridian Health

Practices involved

Data Security

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