Case Study

Pediatric Health Center Improves Cyber Resilience and Compliance Reporting
A healthcare case study highlighting how Bethany Children’s Health Center secures mission-critical patient data. Learn how they leverage immutable backups, isolated cloud vaulting, and conversational AI to guarantee continuous operations.
- Topic
- Data Management and Analytics
- Published
- 21 May 2026

Discover how Bethany Children’s Health Center uses immutable vaults and conversational AI to safeguard mission-critical healthcare data.
In healthcare, data protection is about more than compliance—it is foundational to patient care. When vital electronic health records and clinical systems are threatened by ransomware or system failures, operational continuity hangs in the balance.
This exclusive case study profiles Bethany Children’s Health Center, an innovative leader in complex pediatric rehabilitation, and their strategic migration to a modern data management framework. By combining on-premises immutability with an isolated cloud vault, the hospital has eliminated critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Additionally, you will discover how they are pioneering the use of secure conversational AI to query enterprise data in real time, turning archival backups into an active engine for fast, reliable decision-making.
Key Highlights:
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Mission-Critical Dependency: At Bethany Children’s Health Center, data availability is treated with the highest priority, described by the CEO as equivalent to "blood flow."
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Advanced Cyber Protection: Implementing a multi-layered approach to secure sensitive pediatric electronic health records and medical data.
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Immutable Storage Architecture: Utilizing on-premises immutable backups that cannot be modified, encrypted, or deleted by unauthorized external threats.
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Isolated Cloud Vaulting: Deploying Cohesity FortKnox to create a secure, virtual air-gapped environment for an extra layer of ransomware defense.
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Conversational AI Adoption: Integrating Cohesity Gaia, a generative AI engine, to change how the IT and operations teams interact with enterprise data.
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Rapid Insight Discovery: Leveraging natural language processing to safely query complex datasets and instantly extract operational answers.
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Enhanced Decision-Making: Empowering leadership and administrative staff to make faster, data-driven choices with verified internal knowledge.
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Ransomware Preparedness: Moving from legacy, fragile backup schemes to a zero-trust model designed for reliable, rapid restoration during a crisis.
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Regulatory Compliance Support: Ensuring stringent adherence to healthcare data privacy mandates and long-term retention policies.
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Maximizing Operational Efficiency: Simplifying daily infrastructure workflows so the organization can focus its resources on patient care and rehabilitation.
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A Model for Modern Healthcare: Demonstrating how non-profit and enterprise medical providers can safely use AI without exposing proprietary intelligence.
