Introducing Lumen: The AI Firewall Appliance (AFA) for Agentic Insights

Lumen transforms legacy APIs into secure A2A gateways, enabling providers and analytics firms to participate in agentic collaboration with zero raw data exposure and full regulatory compliance.
Own the model. Vend the vista. Unlock efficiency gains while future-proofing your organization for the agent economy.

The Rise of Agentic Insights: A2A and AI Agents in Healthcare

By November 2025, agentic insights—where AI agents autonomously discover, negotiate, and execute data-driven decisions—has surged in healthcare, with venture funding up 150% year-over-year. This paradigm shift is powered by standardized protocols like Google's Agent2Agent (A2A), launched in April 2025 and codified via the Linux Foundation. A2A provides a vendor-neutral framework for secure agent-led insights, including verifiable credentials and multi-layer authorizations, enabling interoperable handshakes between provider agents, analytics services, and compliance systems for seamless, PHI-safe collaborations.
Agentic insights redefine diagnostics and care by enabling machine-to-machine negotiations, real-time predictive analytics, and personalized treatments—potentially disrupting billions in revenue streams for chronic care and telemedicine. Providers must adopt vendor-neutral technologies integrating A2A to facilitate this transition, supporting secure insights, decentralized ecosystems, and interoperability with EHR systems like Epic, Cerner, and analytics platforms.

Regulatory Imperatives Driving Secure Agentic Insights Solutions

As agentic insights accelerate in healthcare, 2025 regulations prioritize governance, transparency, and risk controls to protect patients and data integrity. US frameworks extend HIPAA and HITECH with federal AI oversight, mandating testing and ethical use in diagnostics, while global rules like GDPR enforce PHI safeguards in agent transactions and DORA enhances EU resilience. Non-compliance risks severe penalties: HIPAA fines range from $137 to $63,973 per violation (up to $1.5 million annually for willful neglect), with total 2025 enforcement fines exceeding $6.5 million so far.

Average healthcare data breaches cost $10.93 million in 2025, driven by PHI exposure—far surpassing other sectors. RegTech is essential for auditable agents in predictive analytics and autonomous care, mitigating breaches and biases that could escalate in agent ecosystems.

Data Sovereignty & Privacy: No raw exposure in A2A dialogues, per HIPAA/GDPR.
Risk Management: Geo-fencing for PHI in agentic insights.
Auditability: Immutable logs for HIPAA/DORA reporting.
Ethical AI: Bias mitigation in autonomous diagnostic decisions.

Lumen: The Secure Foundation for Agentic Insights

Lumen is the AI Firewall Appliance (AFA) that transforms legacy APIs into compliant A2A gateways, enabling secure participation in agentic insights with native A2A support. Deployed in your VPC, Lumen ensures all AI processing stays internal—sharing only pre-approved insights with zero raw data exposure, protecting PHI across partner ecosystems.

Built for healthcare providers, Lumen delivers:

Vendor-Neutral Interoperability: A2A libraries via no-code POET console for seamless EHR and analytics integration.
PHI Protection: End-to-end encryption and masking for all agent exchanges.
Regulatory Compliance by Default: Immutable audit trails, differential privacy, and kill-switch for HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR.
Efficiency Layer: Streamline partner management to reduce breach risks and operational silos.

Deploy in minutes. No AI expertise required. Full IT control, integrating with MFT/B2Bi for compliant exchanges.

The Secure Foundation for Agentic Insights

Lumen Deployment: From Legacy to Agentic in Minutes

Install Appliance

Helm/Terraform in your VPC—air-gapped, no outbound calls.

Configure Agents

Auto-generate A2A endpoints from OpenAPI specs via POET.

Govern & Monitor

Unified dashboards for compliance and agent behavior.

Built for Healthcare CISOs

Seamless Integration

Works alongside Epic, Cerner, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft, and more. Supports OpenAPI, Swagger, RAML for partner ecosystems.

Lumen in Action: Agentic Commerce Use Case

Predicting Patient Readmission Risks in Latin America

A leading hospital network expands chronic care in Latin America for diabetes and cardiovascular cases. It needs to forecast readmission risks—considering adherence, demographics, and comorbidities—using analytics firm data without exposing raw patient records. .

Legacy Approach: Raw data extracted via MCP → fed to public LLMs → PHI leakage + HIPAA risk + high modeling costs averaging $10.93 million per breach.

With Lumen + A2A: Provider’s agent queries: “Project readmission risks from chronic trends in Latin America.” Analytics agent computes internally and returns: “Readmission rate: 18%; Key factors: Adherence 65%”. Full audit trail. PHI-protected collaboration.

Outcome: 30–50% efficiency gain. 80% reduction in data exposure incidents. Enhanced partner interoperability.

Flow: Provider A2A Agent ↔ Lumen (AFA) ↔ Analytics Agent → Insight Response

Lumen vs. Alternatives: Built for Agentic Insights

Criteria	Lumen	DIY/Open-Source	Cloud Native
AP2 Support	Native, Vendor-Neutral	Months of Dev	Partial
PHI Protection	Zero Raw Exposure	Variable	Risk of Leakage
Compliance	Built-in Audits	Manual	Variable
Time to Deploy	Minutes	Months	Weeks
Efficiency Impact	30–50% Gains	Limited	Escalating Costs

FAQ

Does Lumen support A2A for healthcare?

Yes—native libraries in POET for secure, PHI-protected agent collaboration.

Is it HIPAA compliant?

Yes—default compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, and 2025 AI regulations.

How does it protect PHI?

Zero raw data exposure. All processing stays in your VPC. Only pre-approved insights are shared.