Zero-Trust AI for HIPAA-Compliant Patient Data
Deploying autonomous coding agents in a highly regulated, air-gapped environment.
The Challenge
MedSystems wanted to use AI to accelerate their R&D, but HIPAA regulations and internal security policies blocked access to public LLM APIs. Their developers were stuck using 2019-era tools while competitors moved ahead.
The Solution
Retrain implemented a 'Zero-Trust' Agent Gateway. We deployed open-weights models (Llama 3, Mixtral) on MedSystems' private VPC. We built a custom 'Permission Scope' protocol (MCP) that prevented agents from accessing PII without explicit human-in-the-loop authorization.
Tech Stack
The Impact
Developers gained access to state-of-the-art coding assistance without data ever leaving the VPC. The automated documentation features of the agents reduced compliance audit preparation time from weeks to days.
"Security usually slows us down. This time, it sped us up. We have the governance of a bank with the speed of a startup."