Edge Computing in Regulated Industries: Data Residency, Latency, and the PHI Problem

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Clinical decision support latency achievable at the hospital edge â€” not possible via public cloud alone

Edge computing infrastructure â€” AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, GCP Distributed Cloud â€” enables regulated workloads to run on-premises while maintaining cloud management plane connectivity. For healthcare organisations, this architecture can satisfy HIPAA PHI residency requirements while enabling sub-10ms clinical decision support at the hospital edge. But BAA coverage for edge infrastructure is not automatic: AWS Outposts is covered under the AWS BAA, but specific services running on Outposts may not be. GDPR data residency at edge nodes requires explicit configuration of data replication boundaries. The architecture for compliant edge computing is a solved problem â€” but only if you treat compliance as a design input, not an afterthought.

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