The best of on-premise and cloud — unified.
For hospitals that need local control over sensitive data but want cloud scalability for overflow, teleradiology, and disaster recovery. Medcloud Hybrid bridges both worlds without compromise.
Overview
Why hybrid?
Not every hospital can move entirely to the cloud — regulatory requirements, intermittent connectivity, or existing capital investments may demand local infrastructure. Hybrid-Cloud Medcloud lets you keep critical data on-premise while extending capacity, redundancy, and remote access through the cloud.
Key advantages
- Retain full on-premise control of primary image storage
- Burst to cloud for overflow, peak demand, or disaster recovery
- Enable teleradiology and remote reading without moving your archive
- Meet data sovereignty requirements with configurable residency rules
Architecture
How it works
01
Local gateway node
A lightweight Medcloud gateway appliance sits on your network, receiving DICOM studies from modalities and routing them to local storage or the cloud based on configurable rules.
02
Intelligent tiering
Recent and active studies stay on-premise for fast local access. Older studies and overflow are automatically tiered to cloud archive — transparent to users.
03
Unified viewer & worklist
Radiologists see one worklist and one viewer regardless of where a study is stored. Local and cloud studies are indistinguishable from the reading workflow.
04
Cloud failover & DR
If local infrastructure goes offline, the cloud node takes over automatically. Studies continue to be accessible and new acquisitions route to cloud until local systems recover.
Use cases
Who it's for
Hospitals with existing PACS investment
Extend the life of your current on-premise PACS with cloud overflow and remote reading — without a full rip-and-replace.
Regulated environments
Health systems with strict data residency or sovereignty requirements can keep primary data local while gaining cloud benefits.
Multi-site networks with mixed connectivity
Sites with reliable connectivity use cloud-primary; remote or low-bandwidth sites use local-first with cloud sync when available.
Disaster recovery planning
Use cloud as a warm standby for business continuity — automatic failover with no manual intervention required.
Design your hybrid architecture
Every hybrid deployment is different. Our solutions team will assess your existing infrastructure, connectivity, and compliance requirements and design a configuration that fits.