3verest speeds medical image access 28x with Equinix

Healthcare AI that stays inside your borders

3verest deploys purpose-built AI clouds for healthcare operators facing rising performance and governance requirements. Its sovereign infrastructure ensures that public health data, patient images, AI models and inference stay within the healthcare operator’s jurisdiction. These sovereign healthcare clouds, hosted in Equinix’s global data center facilities, support more than 100 operators across 21 regions, addressing data residency, compliance, latency and time-to-deployment.

Critical medical data deserves purpose-built clouds

3verest exists because healthcare is not a typical IT workload. When clinical systems go down, patient care can be delayed, diagnoses can take longer, and critical health information may become inaccessible. Medical data is large, latency-sensitive, clinically critical and heavily regulated. As it grows rapidly in volume and velocity, healthcare operators are struggling to store medical data securely for years and retrieve it in seconds for diagnosis and AI-enabled workloads.

“Healthcare data is the most regulated, sensitive, and jurisdictional class of information,” said Scott Crawford, CEO, 3verest. “A breach is not an inconvenience; it is a breach of trust with the people the system exists to serve.”

To help healthcare operators navigate this complexity, 3verest brings purpose-built sovereign healthcare clouds. Unlike conventional general-purpose public clouds, 3verest’s services are designed to meet the performance, governance and compliance needs of healthcare workloads. Supported by Equinix and offered through trusted medical-device original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners such as Agfa, GE HealthCare and Philips, these sovereign healthcare clouds are deployed worldwide for more than 100 clients across 21 regions, with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) one of 3verest’s prominent users.

“Sovereignty is about trust. With the support of Equinix, we are enabling healthcare—the most human of sciences—to operate within moral and technical boundaries that respect the people it serves,” said Crawford.

Sovereign healthcare clouds are not only about locations

Building a sovereign cloud for healthcare is far more than simply hosting workloads in a local data center. Turning healthcare sovereignty into cloud architecture means 3verest must commit not only to hosting all patient data locally, but also demonstrating that analysis, backups and all AI workloads remain within the jurisdiction. 

Regulators require medical images, often petabyte-sized, to be stored for decades and protected reliably. Meanwhile, radiologists demand instant access, with images retrieved in seconds. “Imaging is the heaviest data in medicine,” said Crawford. “Every slow image retrieval is a radiologist waiting. Slow reporting means delayed diagnosis, treatment, and patient care.

Building sovereignty layer by layer

To enable medical providers with speed and total governance, 3verest builds sovereign healthcare clouds with layers of control. Sovereignty begins with where the infrastructure physically sits. 3verest builds an in-country physical anchor in Equinix’s data center facilities. With medical data residing within local data centers, 3verest provides a robust foundation for sovereign medical workloads.

At the network level, 3verest provides private connections among customer environments, medical device platforms and other cloud services. Riding on Equinix’s carrier-neutral network and interconnection capabilities, 3verest offers medical providers dedicated, high-speed private connectivity. This enables radiologists to retrieve medical images in under a second, 28 times faster than the minutes provided by general public clouds.

With the rising use of AI in the medical sector, 3verest also needs to bring AI capacity, including GPU capacity, AI models and AI inference, close to the health data archives. No medical studies and clinical prompts can be sent to offshore model endpoints. Equinix’s footprint of 280+ data centers and Equinix Fabric® Geo Zones provide the foundation for technical sovereignty, enabling 3verest to avoid hidden offshore dependencies or routing control through overseas hubs. This capability currently supports 95% of 3verest’s customers.

Deepening sovereign AI leadership

Moving forward, 3verest plans to add new jurisdictions to its 21 established regions. This expansion is made possible by Equinix’s extensive global footprint and high-speed interconnections, enabling 3verest to deploy a new customer with repeatable operational consistency in just 24 hours and to establish new sovereign points in merely 60 days.

Data in motion during a network outage and reroute is where most sovereign claims break down. By guaranteeing traffic stays within the defined geographic boundaries, Equinix Fabric Geo Zones ensures sovereignty even during failover. It provides a control that blocks noncompliant paths with audited trails. 

Benefits

Compliance across jurisdictions

Local Equinix facilities provide private interconnections and geo-aware controls to help keep data, AI models and inference within defined jurisdictional boundaries.

High-speed medical image retrieval

Radiologists read faster, clear more studies per shift and reach diagnoses sooner.

Scaling across jurisdictions with consistency

Equinix’s global footprint of 281 data centers allows 3verest to easily expand across multiple jurisdictions by replicating the same operational models.

Faster market entry

Carrier-neutral and reliable interconnections bring operational consistency, enabling 3verest to deploy a new customer in 24 hours and launch new sovereign points in only 60 days.