For the Networks That Reach the Bed. And the Board Room.
IN BRIEF.
Clinical-grade Wi-Fi engineered for MRI rooms, radiology bays, ICU floors, and bedside coverage. PACS-scale storage and network bandwidth for CT and MRI archives (Cisco UCS with NetApp AFF). Medical device network segmentation aligned to IEC 80001-1 and biomed engineering practice. HIS and EHR uptime architecture for Epic, Cerner Oracle Health, GE Centricity, and Indian HIS platforms including Bahmni, Suvarna, Insta HMS, and Prognosis. NABH IT and Information Management chapter-mapped controls. DPDP Act 2023 compliance for patient health data. Ransomware defence and recovery with hospital-tier RTO. ABDM and ABHA integration where required.
Proactive Data Systems is a Cisco Preferred Partner across five portfolios and Cisco Advanced Customer Experience Specialised.
You Don't Need Us to Explain a Code Blue.
What You Already Know
You already know your uptime is measured in patient lives, not business hours. That the PACS server cannot be down when a stroke patient rolls in, and the radiologist needs the CT scan on screen in three minutes. That the infusion pump on Bed 12 is running an operating system nobody has patched since 2016, is connected to your network, and cannot be air-gapped because it reports to your nursing station in real time.
You know that your hospital's biggest cybersecurity gamble is not your admin network but your biomed one. That the MRI machine representing eight crore of capital cost runs on Windows XP Embedded, is unpatchable, and is the direct network path a ransomware attacker would take from your imaging bay to your HIS if the segmentation wasn't right. You know that healthcare became a global ransomware target in 2024 and hasn't stopped since.
You know that your NABH accreditation isn't a certificate on the wall. It's a rolling compliance regime with real information technology and information management chapters that your auditor walks through in every assessment cycle. That the DPDP Act 2023 treats every patient medical record as sensitive personal data, and your Data Protection Officer answers personally for every one of them.
What You Need
You need a partner who understands PACS is not storage but a clinical workflow. That HIS is not an application but the operational spine of a 400-bed hospital. That bed-side Wi-Fi is not coverage but a clinical requirement. That medical device segmentation is not networking but life-safety engineering.
That's the infrastructure Proactive Data Systems has been building for India's healthcare sector for over thirty years.
The Infrastructure. Built for a Sector Where Downtime Is a Patient Outcome.
Proactive delivers seven specific capabilities for Indian healthcare infrastructure.
Clinical-Grade Wi-Fi engineered for MRI room Faraday cages, radiology bays, high-density ICU floors, and bedside coverage that reaches every patient (Cisco Meraki MR series, Cisco Catalyst 9160 and 9166 access points).
PACS-Scale Storage and Network Bandwidth on Cisco UCS or Nutanix with NetApp AFF or Pure FlashArray for CT and MRI archives that grow at hundreds of terabytes a year. Sub-3-second scan retrieval as an SLA, not an aspiration.
Medical Device Network Segmentation aligned to IEC 80001-1 (risk management for medical device networks) and biomed engineering practice. Cisco IoT Threat Defense for medical device visibility and behavioural anomaly detection.
HIS and EHR Uptime Architecture — 24/7 SLA infrastructure for Epic, Cerner Oracle Health, GE Centricity, and Indian HIS platforms (Bahmni, Suvarna, Insta HMS, Prognosis, Karkinos, KRSNAA).
NABH IT and Information Management Chapter Alignment and DPDP Act 2023 controls for patient health data. Auditor-format evidence packs.
Ransomware Defence and Recovery with hospital-tier RTO. Immutable backups (Cohesity DataProtect, Rubrik) for HIS, EHR, and PACS. Pre-drafted clinical continuity runbooks tested with your Medical Superintendent's office.
ABDM and ABHA Integration for hospitals participating in the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, including Health Facility Registry (HFR) and Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) infrastructure requirements.
Every Architecture, Tuned for the Sector.
Each of Proactive's six architectures is delivered with healthcare-specific patterns.
Cisco Meraki or Catalyst for hospital campus networking. Clinical-grade Wi-Fi engineered around Faraday-cage constraints in MRI and radiology suites. Segmentation between biomed, clinical staff, admin, and guest networks. SD-WAN for multi-hospital chains linking tertiary hubs to peripheral units.
PACS-scale storage on Cisco UCS with NetApp or Pure. HIS and EHR backend infrastructure with sub-second RTO for Tier-0 clinical systems. Cohesity or Rubrik for backup and disaster recovery meeting NABH and clinical continuity expectations.
Biomed network isolation via IEC 80001-1. Cisco IoT Threat Defense for medical device visibility. Cisco Secure Firewall or Palo Alto NGFW at the enterprise-biomed boundary. Ransomware-hardened immutable backups for HIS, EHR, PACS, and LIS. 24/7 SOC coverage tuned to healthcare threat patterns.
Cisco Webex Calling for hospital administrative staff and consultation rooms. Ruggedised handsets and Wi-Fi calling for nursing staff and roving clinical teams. Meeting rooms designed for multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions, remote radiology reads, and telemedicine consultations.
Hospital-grade cabling that survives medical-grade cleaning agents and 24/7 utilisation. MRI-room cabling designed around Faraday-cage constraints. Nurse call station wiring integrated with the network. Data centre cabling to TIA-942 standard.
24/7 NOC with clinical incident-response protocols (a network incident during an active surgical procedure is not a P1 but a P0). Named Proactive CSMs who understand your hospital's clinical calendar, elective surgery schedule, and quarterly NABH review cycle. Proactive's 24/7 SOC operates from Bengaluru and Delhi NCR, both cities home to major hospital chains, enabling on-site response for Sev-1 clinical incidents within four hours across the two capitals.
Every Control Has a Chapter.
IEC 80001-1 is the international standard for risk management of IT networks that incorporate medical devices. It defines how hospitals treat the network itself as part of the medical device ecosystem, with formal risk management, change control, and responsibility agreements between IT, biomed engineering, and clinical operations. NABH IT and Information Management chapters are the information technology and information governance sections of India's National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH) and Healthcare Providers standard, against which every accredited hospital in India is assessed on a rolling three-year cycle.
Every architecture Proactive deploys in healthcare ships with a controls-mapping document that names the specific NABH chapter, DPDP Act obligation, IEC 80001-1 clause, or ABDM requirement each control addresses. Proactive maintains this mapping current with every NABH standards revision and DPDP Rules update. The full reference is available in the Proactive Clinical-Grade Wi-Fi Design Guide for Indian Hospitals, alongside worked examples for tertiary care hospitals and multi-site diagnostic networks.
All NABH-accredited hospitals and healthcare providers
Controls mapped to relevant NABH objective elements; auditor-format evidence packs.
Patient health data (sensitive personal data category)
Consent management, breach notification within 72 hours to Data Protection Board of India, DPO evidence pack.
Risk management for IT networks incorporating medical devices
Biomed segmentation, risk register, network change control aligned to standard.
Hospitals serving US-insured patients or international insurance
Business Associate Agreements, technical, administrative, and physical safeguards.
Hospitals participating in India's digital health infrastructure
HFR/HPR-compliant infrastructure, ABHA integration, health data consent management.
Registered clinical establishments
Facility-level record-keeping infrastructure and documentation.
All Indian entities, cybersecurity incidents
6-hour notification workflow, log retention 180 days, SIEM integration.
Information Security Management System
Integrated with NABH IT controls for combined accreditation and international audit posture.
Numbers From Real Hospital Estates.
Proactive's healthcare engagements have produced the following measured outcomes in the last four quarters.
CT and MRI scan retrieval time on refreshed PACS infrastructure at a tertiary care hospital chain in FY25. Down from 22 seconds on the prior generation storage.
HIS uptime across 12 months at a 400-bed tertiary care hospital, measured against a 99.9% SLA, with no unplanned outage exceeding 15 minutes during clinical hours.
Medical device compromises in three years since biomed network segmentation and Cisco IoT Threat Defense were deployed across a South India cardiac care chain, despite five distinct ransomware attempts against the group's admin network in the same period.
“The NABH audit team spent forty percent less time on IT than the previous cycle. Our evidence pack was already in the format they wanted.”
Head of IT, Indian multi-hospital group
FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
Book a 30-minute conversation with a Proactive healthcare infrastructure architect. Not a sales engineer. Not an SDR. Someone who has delivered for hospital chains and diagnostic networks that look like yours and can defend the recommendations to your Medical Superintendent, your CISO, and your NABH assessor.
We'll get back to you shortly.
