Introducing HealthStack: AWS Infrastructure Setup for Healthcare Made Simple

HealthTech teams building innovative healthcare solutions face a frustrating bottleneck. HIPAA compliance is essential for healthcare applications, but building compliant AWS infrastructure from scratch consumes months of specialized engineering effort. Teams spend weeks configuring security controls instead of building healthcare solutions. Even worse, manual infrastructure setup leads to compliance gaps and security vulnerabilities that put patient data at risk.

At Momentum, we believe healthcare infrastructure should accelerate innovation, not hinder it. That's why we're introducing HealthStack, an open-source collection of Terraform modules that eliminates infrastructure complexity through battle-tested, HIPAA-compliant components.

What Is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Healthcare?

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) creates repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure deployments through code instead of manual configuration. Think of it as a blueprint that lets any development team deploy identical, secure environments through automated processes. Terraform, HashiCorp's leading IaC tool, already supports comprehensive AWS resource management out of the box. This means developers can define infrastructure once and deploy consistently across multiple environments, while maintaining strict security and compliance controls without manual intervention.

Why Healthcare Teams Need HIPAA-Compliant Terraform Modules

Healthcare infrastructure requires more than generic cloud templates. Medical applications handle highly sensitive patient data, operate under strict regulatory requirements, and demand specialized security controls. Standard Terraform modules struggle with healthcare-specific challenges like HIPAA technical safeguards, comprehensive audit logging, and medical data encryption requirements.

HealthTech startups and healthcare organizations need infrastructure that deploys quickly while maintaining regulatory compliance from day one. Building this specialized infrastructure requires deep knowledge of healthcare regulations, AWS security best practices, and complex compliance frameworks—plus the expertise to orchestrate multiple AWS resources into cohesive, production-ready packages. Generic solutions simply can't provide the precision, integrated security controls, and orchestrated architecture that healthcare demands

HealthStack: Open-Source Terraform Modules for HIPAA Compliance

Momentum's HealthStack bridges this gap with comprehensive infrastructure modules built specifically for healthcare applications.

• Complete AWS Integration: The modules provide full infrastructure deployment for all critical healthcare components through specialized Terraform configurations. Developers get dedicated modules for VPN access, S3 storage, CloudTrail auditing, HealthLake FHIR services, and web application security, plus flexible networking components for custom architectures.
• Intelligent Compliance Controls: Built-in HIPAA technical safeguards automatically implement proper encryption, access controls, and audit logging. When you deploy patient data storage, the system automatically configures customer-managed encryption keys, comprehensive access logging, and proper retention policies without manual configuration.
• Smart Security Architecture: The battle-tested pipeline handles healthcare-specific security requirements including network segmentation, intrusion detection, and secure remote access. Infrastructure deploys with enterprise-grade security controls, enabling teams to focus on application development instead of security configuration.

How to Deploy a HIPAA-Ready AWS Baseline with HealthStack

Consider a HealthTech startup launching a telehealth platform that needs secure patient data storage, audit-compliant logging, and remote access for healthcare providers. Instead of spending months configuring AWS infrastructure manually, they can deploy complete HIPAA-compliant infrastructure in hours.

HealthStack automatically provisions encrypted S3 buckets for patient data, establishes comprehensive CloudTrail auditing, configures secure VPN access for remote teams, and implements web application security controls. All through simple Terraform configuration.

For healthcare developers, this means building innovative patient care solutions that actually help providers instead of wrestling with infrastructure complexity.

Get Started with HealthStack

Whether you're building next-generation healthcare applications or need to deploy compliant infrastructure for existing systems, HealthStack is production-ready and open source.

• Complete documentation, setup guides, and examples are available at github.com/the-momentum/healthstack
• Watch our demos showing real infrastructure deployments and compliance workflows
• Configure with your existing AWS account and Terraform workflow in under five minutes
• Use the comprehensive module library to create healthcare-specific infrastructure that meets regulatory requirements

Curious how to use HealthStack modules with custom healthcare applications? Check out our comprehensive documentation for step-by-step implementation guides.

Healthcare development should focus on patient outcomes, not infrastructure configuration. With HealthStack, we're making that vision reality for every healthcare developer.