Case Study: Atlantic Health System achieves high-speed, secure SD-WAN connectivity and cost savings with Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN

Saving patient lives with high-speed, secure connectivity while keeping healthcare affordable

Atlantic Health System, one of New Jersey’s largest healthcare providers with 6 hospitals, 400+ clinics and 19,000+ employees, needed to modernize connectivity as its outpatient network rapidly expanded. Legacy dedicated links and VPNs were expensive, hard to manage, and lacked the bandwidth and reliability to support cloud applications, EMR (Epic) access, and gigabit‑scale imaging transfers, creating operational complexity and increased service‑desk demand.

Atlantic Health adopted Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD‑WAN, leveraging broadband with multi‑carrier redundancy, QoS and app‑aware routing plus enhanced security. The solution now connects 200+ sites, cut hardware‑related outages by up to 33%, sped transmission of large radiology files, enabled minutes‑level onboarding of new locations, reduced support requests and lowered infrastructure costs while keeping patient data secure.

Atlantic Health System

Meraz Nasir

Chief Technology Officer