Client Background

3BEAM is a state-of-the-art CBCT diagnostic imaging centre based in Harley Street, London. They provide convenient, efficient, and cost-effective scanning services for dentists, maxillofacial, and ENT surgeons.

Led by UK-trained medical and allied healthcare professionals, 3BEAM blends deep clinical expertise with modern technology to deliver superior patient care. With a mission to make advanced imaging accessible, 3BEAM engaged Cognetiks Consulting to modernize their IT operations and build a compliant, cloud-native platform capable of supporting their growth.

Challenges

Before engaging Cognetiks Consulting, 3BEAM’s IT environment faced several obstacles:

1. Operational inefficiencies: Diagnostic workloads ran on manually managed EC2 servers that were oversized yet underutilized. Scaling during peak hours was slow, creating delays in scan processing and reporting.
2. Compliance and security risks: Handling patient imaging data demanded strict healthcare compliance. However, encryption was inconsistent, access controls were largely manual, and audit trails were fragmented.
3. Deployment inefficiencies: Application updates were deployed manually, often causing downtime. The absence of separate Dev, QA, and Production environments made testing unreliable, and rollback procedures were slow and error-prone.

These challenges underscored the need for a secure, automated, and scalable cloud-native solution.

Solution – Migration to ECS

Cognetiks Consulting designed and implemented a modern containerized architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), solving 3BEAM’s pain points through:

1. Scalability and Cost Optimization: Migrated workloads from EC2 to ECS with auto-scaling enabled, ensuring scan workloads dynamically adjusted to demand while optimizing compute costs.
2. Security and Compliance: Enforced IAM least-privilege access, enabled AWS KMS encryption for imaging data, and integrated AWS CloudTrail logging. These measures delivered a compliant, secure, and auditable environment.
3. Automated CI/CD and Environment Management: Introduced containerization with Docker, GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. This created consistent Dev/QA/Production environments, enabled faster deployments, and supported instant rollbacks with versioned images in Amazon ECR.

Cloud Modernization and DevOps Transformation

Through our partnership, 3BEAM gained a platform that:

1. Scales seamlessly with diagnostic imaging demand
2. Meets strict compliance and patient data protection requirements
3. Delivers rapid, reliable deployments with minimal downtime
4. Provides operational transparency and audit readiness

By adopting cloud-native practices and DevOps automation, 3BEAM’s IT team is now empowered to focus on patient-centric innovation rather than infrastructure management.

End Result

The collaboration between Cognetiks Consulting and 3BEAM demonstrates the impact of cloud modernization in healthcare technology. With a secure, compliant, and automated cloud platform, 3BEAM now operates with greater efficiency, resilience, and agility.

This transformation enables 3BEAM to:

1. Optimize IT costs while scaling diagnostic workloads
2. Guarantee compliance with healthcare regulations
3. Deliver faster, uninterrupted imaging services for patients and clinicians

With Cognetiks Consulting’s cloud expertise, 3BEAM is well-positioned to continue innovating in diagnostic imaging and improving healthcare outcomes.