Ready when you need it
We collect the needed information and dry-run your archive with your environment ahead of time — so you can be certain it's ready when needed, not something you scramble to build mid-crisis.
Imaging disaster recovery
for health systems
When your VNA goes down, we'll have one ready for you in under an hour.
Lightbridge is your imaging disaster-recovery partner. A secure archive that's ready the moment you need it — already proven in your environment, and backed by healthcare IT veterans who've lived the 2 a.m. outage.
- Live in under an hour
- Proven in your environment
- Built by healthcare veterans
- Zero-trust security
Works with the imaging systems you already run
PACS
DICOM
Modalities
HL7 feeds
EHR / RIS
Any vendor VNA
Cloud or on-prem
<0hr
To a live, secure imaging archive when you need it
Quarterly
Free DR exercises, run in your own environment
Zero
Footprint and idle cost between events
0+ yrs
Healthcare imaging & security leadership behind it
The reality
Downtime isn't an if. It's a when.
Ransomware, hardware failure, a cloud outage, a botched upgrade — your VNA goes dark, and care can't wait. When it happens, every minute without a place to store new studies puts patients and clinicians at risk.
The hard truth: traditional healthcare software takes months and millions of dollars to stand up. In the middle of a crisis, you have neither.
The Lightbridge answer
A secure DR imaging archive, planned and proven before the crisis — and live in under an hour when it arrives.
Lightbridge is a disaster-recovery VNA — a bridge that keeps imaging moving during an outage, not a permanent replacement for your production archive. You keep scanning, storing, and viewing the new studies you create during the outage; when your primary is restored, we hand everything back and tear down.
Why Lightbridge
A different kind of safety net.
Not another system to buy and maintain. Lightbridge is both a partner and a platform that are ready the day you hope never comes.
Live in under an hour
No months-long project, no seven-figure implementation. When disaster strikes, your imaging is back online within the hour — the only offering of its kind.
A partner, not a vendor
We're ready and waiting to engage. Real people who know your environment and pick up when you call — not direct you to submit a support ticket.
Gone when you're done
Once you've recovered, we repatriate everything to your production VNA. After you confirm the data is safely back, we destroy the temporary infrastructure and all patient data — only with your authorization.
The Valhalis family
Three products, one mission.
Lightbridge is the flagship. Around it, Valhalis builds what makes a recovery whole — getting your imaging home when the crisis passes, and watching over it the entire way.
Lightbridge
The disaster-recovery VNA. A secure, HIPAA-aligned imaging archive, live in under an hour when your primary goes down.
Explore LightbridgeSkyward
Verified repatriation. When your primary is restored, Skyward carries every study back and proves the reconciliation gate before cutover.
Explore SkywardFarsight
Monitoring & observability. Real-time visibility into the bridge — ingest, integrity, and health — so nothing moves unwatched.
Explore Farsight
Security you can stand behind
Security your CISO can sign off on.
PHI is the most sensitive data you hold. Lightbridge is built around the security principles your CISO and auditors expect to hear.
Zero Trust
Nothing and no one is trusted by default. Every request is verified, every time — inside the system and out.
Defense in Depth
Independent, overlapping safeguards mean a single failure is never a breach. Protection at every layer.
Encryption everywhere
Your images are encrypted in transit and at rest — unreadable to anyone without the keys.
Immutability
Records can't be quietly altered or deleted. What happened to your data stays provable.
Role-Based Access Control
People see exactly what their role allows — and nothing more. Access is least-privilege by design.
Customer-held Destruction Key
Shutdown runs on your authorization, with customer-managed encryption keys — so only you can cryptographically erase your data. Emergency operator access is least-privilege and logged.
◈ A true partnership
We don't wait for a disaster to find out it works.
Every quarter, at no additional cost, we run a full disaster-recovery exercise in your environment. We perform a complete, timed stand-up of the Lightbridge stack in your AWS environment — so you're certain it'll be ready as soon as you need it. When the real thing happens, there are no surprises, only a plan we've already practiced together.
- Free quarterly DR exercises — proven readiness, in your own environment.
- We advise your teams — networking, security, and applications, working alongside yours.
- Reachable when it matters — easy to get hold of, fast to respond.
- Customer-first — your feedback shapes the product and the service.
How it works
Simple when it counts.
01
We prepare together
We onboard quickly and tune Lightbridge to your environment and needs — your modalities, your network, your security requirements.
02
You're ready, always
Quarterly DR exercises keep your recovery plan sharp and proven — so you have a DR VNA ready the moment you need it.
03
Activate, recover, hand back
When disaster strikes, you're live within the hour. When you recover, we return everything to your restored system and tear down to zero.
Who's behind it
Built by healthcare IT veterans.
Lightbridge wasn't dreamed up by a startup guessing at clinical workflows. It was built by people who've run hospital imaging environments, written the disaster-recovery plans, and stood in the war room when the systems went down — and who knew no solution like this existed, but was desperately needed.
"In a crisis, you don't have months or millions of dollars to build a new VNA. You have minutes. Lightbridge is built for those minutes." — Matt Beglinger, Founder
Be ready before you need it
The best time to plan for a disaster is before it happens.
Let's talk about your imaging continuity. We'll show you how Lightbridge fits your environment, your teams, and your compliance model — and how a partnership would work.