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Healthcare & Compliance
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HIPAA Compliance Consulting for SaaS & Healthcare

Security Rule. Privacy Rule. HITECH. Handled.

100%
Audit Pass Rate
Across client assessments
$2M+
Fines Avoided
For our clients
< 30
Days to Compliance
Typical SaaS engagement
0
Breaches Post-Launch
Clean track record
What Is HIPAA Compliance Consulting?

HIPAA compliance consulting means we evaluate your web application, infrastructure, and org policies against the HIPAA Security Rule, Privacy Rule, and HITECH Act. For SaaS startups handling protected health information (PHI), that work surfaces real technical gaps—encryption holes, weak access controls, missing audit logs, unsigned BAAs—and gives you a concrete remediation roadmap to satisfy federal requirements before OCR shows up at your door.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Your SaaS stores PHI but you've never done a formal risk assessment OCR can fine you $50K–$1.9M per violation category. No breach required.
Your engineers built auth but skipped audit logging and encryption at rest Skip those technical safeguards and your whole platform falls out of compliance—not just the parts they missed.
You signed a BAA with a covered entity but didn't cover your subprocessors When a downstream vendor gets breached, that's your liability under the HITECH Act.
You've got no documented workforce training policy and no incident response plan Administrative safeguard failures are the most commonly cited HIPAA violations—and the easiest ones for OCR to prove.
You're pitching enterprise health systems and they want proof of compliance We've seen startups lose $500K+ contracts because they couldn't produce a simple attestation letter.
Your infrastructure runs on standard cloud tiers without BAA-covered services AWS, GCP, and Azure all require specific configurations and signed BAAs before they qualify.

Cumplimiento

End-to-End Encryption

AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, for every piece of PHI you handle. We trace every data path from browser to database to backup.

Access Control & RBAC

Role-based access control with minimum necessary permissions. That means MFA enforcement, automatic session timeouts, and unique user IDs—not optional, required.

Audit Trail Logging

Immutable audit logs that capture every PHI access, modification, and deletion. Tamper-proof storage with a 6-year retention policy baked in.

Risk Assessment & Gap Analysis

Formal SRA documentation that actually meets OCR requirements. We find every vulnerability and score it by likelihood and impact—nothing vague, nothing left out.

BAA Management

We review and execute Business Associate Agreements across your entire vendor chain. Every subprocessor touching PHI gets mapped and covered.

Incident Response Planning

Breach notification procedures built to hit the 60-day HITECH reporting window. We run tabletop exercises so your team isn't figuring it out during an actual incident.

Qué construimos

Security Rule Technical Safeguards

All 22 technical safeguard specifications—encryption, integrity controls, transmission security—implemented and verified. Not just checked off a list.

Privacy Rule Policy Development

Custom privacy policies, Notice of Privacy Practices, and minimum necessary standards written around your application's actual data flows. Not boilerplate.

HITECH Act Breach Preparedness

Breach risk tools, notification templates, and OCR reporting workflows ready before you ever need them. You don't want to be building these under pressure.

Infrastructure Hardening

BAA-covered cloud configurations on AWS GovCloud, Azure Healthcare APIs, or GCP—with network segmentation and intrusion detection included.

Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Scanning

Third-party pen tests targeting PHI exposure vectors, with full remediation support and re-testing to confirm everything's actually fixed.

Compliance Documentation Portal

One central repository holding all your policies, risk assessments, training records, and BAAs. Hand it to any auditor in minutes.

Nuestro proceso

01

Discovery & Scoping

We start by mapping every system, vendor, and data flow that touches PHI. You get a full inventory and a clear scope before we do anything else.
Week 1
02

Security Risk Assessment

Then comes the formal SRA—every HIPAA Security Rule safeguard, scored and documented, with each finding tied to a specific remediation action.
Week 2
03

Remediation & Implementation

We fix the technical gaps: encryption, access controls, audit logging, infrastructure config. Your team handles policy and training with our templates while we work.
Weeks 3–5
04

Validation & Documentation

Once everything's remediated, we re-assess to confirm all findings are closed. Then we compile your compliance package—policies, SRA, BAAs, training logs, and your attestation letter.
Week 6
05

Ongoing Monitoring

After that, it's quarterly vulnerability scans, annual SRA updates, and on-call support whenever you need breach response or new vendor onboarding.
Ongoing
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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuánto tiempo tarda en hacer una aplicación SaaS compatible con HIPAA?

Para una startup SaaS típica con una aplicación existente, espera 4–6 semanas. Eso cubre la evaluación completa de riesgos de seguridad, remediación de brechas como encriptación faltante y registro de auditoría, documentación de políticas y validación final. Si estás construyendo desde cero en nuestro stack, puedes estar en cumplimiento desde el primer día.

¿Necesito cumplimiento con HIPAA si solo almaceno datos desidentificados?

Si tus datos están genuinamente desidentificados bajo el método Safe Harbor de HIPAA—todos los 18 identificadores eliminados—no son PHI y HIPAA no aplica. Pero la mayoría de startups subestiman qué cuenta como identificador. Fechas, códigos postales, IDs de dispositivo—todos esos pueden calificar. Auditaremos tu proceso de desidentificación para asegurar que realmente estés en claro, no solo asumiendo que lo estás.

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre cumplimiento HIPAA y HITECH?

HIPAA creó la Security Rule y la Privacy Rule para proteger información de salud. La Ley HITECH de 2009 extendió esas reglas a asociados comerciales, empujó las sanciones máximas a $1.9M por categoría de violación y añadió requisitos de notificación de brechas. Trabajan juntas—no puedes cumplir con una e ignorar la otra.

¿Usar AWS o GCP automáticamente hace mi aplicación compatible con HIPAA?

No. AWS, GCP y Azure ofrecen servicios HIPAA-elegibles y firmarán BAAs, pero el cumplimiento es una responsabilidad compartida. Aún tienes que configurar encriptación, controles de acceso, registro y segmentación de red tú mismo. Un bucket S3 estándar o instancia de Cloud SQL con configuración predeterminada deja PHI expuesto—no importa qué haya firmado tu proveedor de nube.

¿Qué sucede si mi startup SaaS falla una auditoría HIPAA?

Las sanciones de OCR van desde $100 a $50,000 por violación, con máximos anuales hasta $1.9M por categoría de violación. Más allá de las multas, estás viendo planes de acción correctiva obligatorios, posibles derivaciones penales por negligencia intencional y el tipo de daño reputacional que silenciosamente mata tu pipeline de ventas de salud. Lograr cumplimiento ahora cuesta menos que cualquiera de eso.

¿Pueden ayudarnos a pasar una revisión de seguridad de vendedor de empresa de salud?

Sí. Los grandes sistemas de salud ejecutan evaluaciones de vendedor serias—a menudo cuestionarios de seguridad de 200+ preguntas construidos en marcos HITRUST o NIST. Preparamos tu documentación, trabajamos a través de cuestionarios contigo y manejamos preguntas técnicas de seguimiento de sus equipos de seguridad. Nuestros clientes rutinariamente pasan estas revisiones en la primera presentación.

HIPAA Compliance Engagements from $8,000
Fixed-fee. Includes SRA, remediation, and 30-day post-launch support.
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