Platform Architecture

Technical Infrastructure

MedAxis runs a Next.js/TypeScript web app on Vercel with an API gateway routing secure requests to Python microservices on AWS. Streaming vitals and clinic datasets flow into a data lake, with PostgreSQL storing clinical records and a time-series layer handling high-frequency vitals. ML pipelines build features, train predictive risk models, register and deploy optimized inference endpoints (TensorRT/Triton-ready), and trigger real-time clinical alerts via dashboards and notifications.

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Layer 01

Frontend & Edge Delivery

A blazing-fast, globally distributed frontend ensures clinicians and patients experience near-zero latency regardless of location.

Web Application

Next.js + TypeScript on Vercel hosting for the marketing site and clinician/patient dashboards.

Edge + CDN

Vercel Edge Network for low-latency routing with optional CloudFront/Cloudflare for enterprise controls — WAF rules, bot protection, and geo-restrictions.

Auth UI

OAuth2/OIDC login flow (Cognito/Auth0/Keycloak) supporting clinicians, admins, and patients with compliance-grade session management.

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Layer 02

API Layer & Core Backend

A secure API gateway and Python microservices power the core logic — from patient records to AI model orchestration.

API Gateway

Single entry point with REST/GraphQL endpoints for patient profiles, vitals ingestion, alerts, and analytics. Includes rate limiting, request validation, and JWT verification.

Core Microservices (Python)

Specialized services for patient context aggregation, clinical alerting rules engine, workflow routing, and model orchestration (feature creation → inference → post-processing).

Asynchronous Jobs

Queue-based workers (SQS/Kafka + Celery or serverless Lambda) handle data normalization, batch scoring, and cohort analytics.

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Layer 03

Data Ingestion — Real-Time + Batch

Continuous monitoring and early detection demand both streaming and batch data pathways ingesting from devices, EHRs, and clinical systems.

Real-Time Vitals Streaming

Devices, EHR systems, and clinic apps push events (heart rate, SpO₂, BP, temperature, respiration, glucose) into Kinesis/Kafka streams or API Gateway + Lambda for simpler paths.

Batch Clinical Datasets

Periodic uploads from clinic EHR exports and historical data dumps land in object storage (S3) — raw/immutable buckets plus structured "curated" datasets.

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Layer 04

Data Storage & Analytics

A purpose-built storage architecture optimized for clinical record management, high-frequency vitals, and population-scale analytics.

PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora)

Patient profiles, consents, clinic org structure, care plans, intervention logs, clinician notes, and alert lifecycle tracking (created → acknowledged → resolved).

Time-Series Store

TimescaleDB (Postgres extension) or Timestream/InfluxDB optimized for high-frequency vitals ingestion and clinical trend queries.

Data Lake (S3)

Raw device/EHR events, cleaned/standardized datasets, feature tables, training snapshots, labels, and model artifacts.

Warehouse (Enterprise)

Redshift / BigQuery / Snowflake for cohort analytics, population health dashboards, and cost/outcome reporting.

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Layer 05

AI/ML Pipeline

End-to-end machine learning — from feature engineering through validation to production deployment of predictive risk models.

Feature Engineering

De-identified data mapped to clinical schemas (FHIR-like). Features include rolling vitals windows (1h/6h/24h), trend slope/variance, missingness patterns, and comorbidity context. Built on Spark/Glue/Ray at scale.

Model Training

Temporal deep learning (LSTM/TCN/Transformer) paired with gradient boosting for interpretability. Ensemble approach combines deep models with calibrated risk models. GPU-accelerated on NVIDIA hardware.

Validation & Governance

Offline evaluation via AUROC/AUPRC, calibration curves, and subgroup performance. Model registry (MLflow/SageMaker) with full audit trails: dataset, feature, model, and inference versioning.

Deployment

Real-time inference via containerized model servers with autoscaling. Triton Inference Server for multi-model serving. TensorRT optimization for lower latency. Nightly batch scoring for population risk.

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Layer 06

Alerting & Clinical Workflow

Risk scores become actionable through severity-tiered alerts routed to the right clinician at the right time.

Alert Engine

Converts risk scores into severity tiers (low/medium/high) and routes alerts to clinician dashboards and care coordination queues.

Notification Channels

Multi-channel delivery via SMS, email, and WhatsApp push notifications (SNS/Twilio/SendGrid).

Workflow Integration

Outbound webhooks + HL7/FHIR connectors for seamless integration into existing clinic workflows and EHR systems.

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Layer 07

Security, Privacy & Compliance

Healthcare-grade security controls baked in from day one — encryption, access control, audit logging, and threat protection.

Encryption

TLS in transit. AES-256 at rest for all databases and object storage.

Access Control

Role-based access (clinician vs admin vs patient) with least-privilege IAM policies.

Data Protection

De-identification and tokenization pipeline for model training datasets. Per-tenant data isolation for multi-clinic deployments.

Monitoring & Threat Defense

CloudWatch/Datadog + centralized audit logs. Anomaly detection on auth and access patterns. AWS WAF / Shield or Cloudflare WAF for DDoS and bot mitigation.

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Layer 08

Reliability & Scalability

Built for 99.9% uptime with container orchestration, autoscaling inference, and multi-region disaster recovery.

Container Orchestration

ECS/EKS for microservices and model servers with automated health checks and rolling deployments.

Autoscaling

Inference servers scale dynamically based on queue depth and latency metrics.

Multi-Region DR

Active-passive disaster recovery option for enterprise health networks requiring geographic redundancy.

Uptime Target

99.9% platform availability — monitored, measured, and continuously improved.

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