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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

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.

Onde os projetos falham

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.

Conformidade

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.

O que construímos

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.

Nosso processo

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

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

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

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

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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Perguntas frequentes

Quanto tempo leva para tornar uma aplicação SaaS compatível com HIPAA?

Para uma startup SaaS típica com uma aplicação existente, espere 4–6 semanas. Isso cobre a avaliação completa de riscos de segurança, correção de lacunas como criptografia ausente e logging de auditoria, documentação de políticas e validação final. Se você está construindo do zero em nossa stack, você pode estar em conformidade desde o primeiro dia.

Preciso estar em conformidade com HIPAA se armazenar apenas dados desidentificados?

Se seus dados são genuinamente desidentificados sob o método Safe Harbor do HIPAA—todos os 18 identificadores removidos—não é PHI e HIPAA não se aplica. Mas a maioria das startups subestima o que conta como identificador. Datas, códigos postais, IDs de dispositivos—tudo isso pode se qualificar. Vamos auditar seu processo de desidentificação para garantir que você realmente está seguro, não apenas assumindo que está.

Qual é a diferença entre conformidade HIPAA e HITECH?

HIPAA criou a Security Rule e Privacy Rule para proteger informações de saúde. O HITECH Act de 2009 estendeu essas regras aos business associates, aumentou as penalidades máximas para $1,9M por categoria de violação e adicionou requisitos de notificação de violação. Eles trabalham juntos—você não pode estar em conformidade com um e ignorar o outro.

Usar AWS ou GCP automaticamente torna meu app compatível com HIPAA?

Não. AWS, GCP e Azure oferecem serviços elegíveis para HIPAA e assinam BAAs, mas a conformidade é uma responsabilidade compartilhada. Você ainda precisa configurar criptografia, controles de acesso, logging e segmentação de rede você mesmo. Um bucket S3 padrão ou instância Cloud SQL em configurações padrão deixa PHI exposto—não importa o que seu provedor de nuvem assinou.

O que acontece se minha startup SaaS falhar em uma auditoria HIPAA?

As penalidades do OCR variam de $100 a $50.000 por violação, com máximos anuais de até $1,9M por categoria de violação. Além das multas, você está olhando para planos de ação corretivos obrigatórios, potenciais encaminhamentos criminais por negligência intencional e o tipo de dano reputacional que quietly mata seu pipeline de vendas de saúde. Ficar em conformidade agora custa menos que qualquer um desses.

Você pode nos ajudar a passar em uma revisão de segurança de vendedor de um grande sistema de saúde?

Sim. Grandes sistemas de saúde executam avaliações sérias de fornecedores—frequentemente questionários de segurança com 200+ perguntas construídos em frameworks HITRUST ou NIST. Preparamos sua documentação, trabalhamos através de questionários com você e lidamos com perguntas técnicas de acompanhamento de suas equipes de segurança. Nossos clientes rotineiramente passam nessas revisões na primeira apresentação.

HIPAA Compliance Engagements from $8,000

Fixed-fee. Includes SRA, remediation, and 30-day post-launch support.

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