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Your HIPAA Audit Notice Just Arrived. You Have 10 Business Days.

If you're a healthcare CTO holding ePHI in a SaaS product, your risk analysis is either OCR-ready or it's a liability waiting to explode.

We build HIPAA-compliant web applications and run technical security risk assessments aligned with 45 CFR § 164.308, NIST 800-66, and OCR audit protocols.

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What is Your HIPAA Audit Notice Just Arrived. You Have 10 Business Days.?

HIPAA compliance audit is about ensuring your healthcare software meets the strict standards for protecting electronic patient information. It's not just ticking off boxes. It involves a deep dive into your systems and processes--from conducting a thorough HIPAA security risk assessment to aligning with the 45 CFR 164.308 risk analysis requirements. We know OCR audit protocols can seem daunting, especially when 10 business days is all you've got. That's why we focus on the essentials: identifying vulnerabilities, securing your web application, and ensuring you're audit-ready. Our team doesn't just hand over a checklist; we dig in and help you fix what's broken. With Social Animal, you're not just meeting compliance--you're building trust with your patients and stakeholders. And we commit to getting you there fast, with a detailed action plan in just five days.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your engineering team shipped features under HIPAA assumptions that were never formally documented or tested against OCR audit criteria.
Risk: Undocumented risk decisions are treated by OCR as no decision at all, exposing the organization to findings of willful neglect even when technical controls exist.
Your last risk assessment was a vendor-supplied questionnaire completed by a non-technical stakeholder with no system-level evidence attached.
Risk: OCR auditors cross-reference risk analysis claims against actual system configurations, access logs, and encryption implementation. A questionnaire without technical artifacts does not satisfy 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii).
You have a 10-business-day response window on an OCR audit notice and no current, signed risk analysis document to produce.
Risk: Failure to respond with complete documentation within the audit window escalates the investigation and significantly narrows your negotiating position on any corrective action plan.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

SleepDr.com sleep medicine practice website built on Next.js and Payload CMS with HIPAA-safe patient forms
SleepDr.com -- a sleep medicine practice we migrated from WordPress to Next.js 15 + Payload CMS with a HIPAA-safe architecture (patient forms via HIPAA Jotform, no PHI on our servers). View live site →

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

45 CFR § 164.308 Alignment

Every finding and control recommendation in our assessment maps to a specific administrative safeguard standard under the HIPAA Security Rule, giving you a document that matches the exact regulatory language OCR uses during review.

NIST 800-66 Control Mapping

We structure risk analysis outputs against NIST Special Publication 800-66 Rev. 2, the implementation guide OCR formally references, so your documentation reflects accepted federal methodology rather than a proprietary framework.

OCR Audit Protocol Coverage

Our assessment process is structured around the published OCR audit protocol performance criteria, ensuring that the evidence we help you compile directly satisfies the document requests and inquiry categories used in desk and onsite audits.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

ePHI Data Flow Mapping

We trace every path where ePHI enters, moves through, and exits your application stack, including third-party API calls, logging pipelines, backup destinations, and developer environment access, producing a documented inventory that satisfies the asset identification requirement under § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A).

Threat and Vulnerability Analysis

We identify reasonably anticipated threats to ePHI confidentiality, integrity, and availability specific to your architecture, including authentication weaknesses, misconfigured cloud storage, unencrypted data at rest, and insufficient audit logging, scored by likelihood and impact.

Control Gap Report with Remediation Priority

Each identified gap is matched against the corresponding NIST 800-66 control and assigned a remediation priority based on exploitability and regulatory exposure, giving your engineering team a ranked work order rather than an undifferentiated list of findings.

Audit-Ready Documentation Package

We deliver a complete, signed risk analysis document formatted for OCR production, including methodology narrative, evidence references, risk ratings, and an implemented and planned controls matrix that satisfies § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(D) risk management requirements.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelRow-Level SecurityAES-256 EncryptionSOC 2 InfrastructureAudit Logging

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Scoping and ePHI Inventory

1 week

We begin with a structured technical intake covering your application architecture, infrastructure stack, data stores, third-party integrations, and access control model. The output is a verified ePHI inventory and an agreed assessment boundary before any testing begins.

02

Technical Assessment and Evidence Collection

1-2 weeks

We review system configurations, encryption implementation, audit log coverage, access provisioning records, and transmission security controls. Where applicable we perform authenticated application review to validate that technical safeguards function as documented.

03

Risk Scoring and Control Gap Analysis

1 week

Each identified threat and vulnerability is scored using a documented likelihood-impact methodology aligned with NIST 800-66. We map current controls against required safeguards and produce a prioritized gap list with specific remediation recommendations tied to your stack.

04

Risk Analysis Document and Remediation Handoff

1 week

We deliver a complete, OCR-ready risk analysis document with supporting evidence, a signed methodology statement, and a remediation roadmap. We conduct a working session with your engineering and compliance leads to walk through findings and answer documentation questions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) requires every covered entity and business associate to conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of potential risks and vulnerabilities to ePHI. OCR has imposed penalties exceeding $1M specifically for skipping this step. Organization size doesn't matter. This isn't optional.
The regulation doesn't set a fixed schedule, but § 164.308(a)(8) requires periodic technical and non-technical evaluations. OCR guidance and enforcement history both point to annually as the expected minimum. You should also reassess after significant system changes, new integrations, or security incidents.
NIST 800-66 is a voluntary implementation guide that maps HIPAA Security Rule requirements to specific assessment activities and controls. The OCR audit protocol is the enforcement checklist HHS uses during compliance audits. We align to both -- NIST 800-66 for technical rigor, the OCR protocol for audit readiness.
Yes. We specialize in Next.js, Supabase, and modern JavaScript stacks, but our HIPAA assessment methodology works regardless of framework. We're evaluating the security controls, not the language. We've assessed applications built on Rails, Django, Laravel, .NET, and legacy PHP platforms.
You'll receive a complete risk register with scored findings, an ePHI data flow diagram, a NIST 800-66 crosswalk document, a gap analysis report mapped to OCR audit protocol elements, and a prioritized remediation roadmap with implementation guidance. Everything's formatted for regulator review.
Yes. Unlike compliance consultancies that stop at reports, we're a development team. We implement technical remediations -- access controls, encryption, audit logging, secure API design -- directly in your codebase. Every fix gets verified against the original finding before it's closed.
HIPAA compliance itself doesn't mandate regular audits, but covered entities and business associates are required to conduct regular risk assessments to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. These assessments are critical to identifying vulnerabilities and implementing necessary safeguards. While not specifically labeled as "audits," these evaluations fulfill a similar purpose. However, if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) initiates an audit or investigation, compliance with all HIPAA requirements becomes imperative, highlighting the importance of maintaining up-to-date risk assessments and documentation.
To audit HIPAA compliance, start by reviewing your organization's policies and procedures to ensure they align with HIPAA's Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. Conduct a risk assessment to identify vulnerabilities in handling protected health information (PHI). Verify that all employees have received HIPAA training and understand their responsibilities. Inspect technical safeguards such as encryption and access controls. Evaluate physical security measures protecting PHI. Finally, document all findings and implement corrective actions where necessary, ensuring a proactive approach to maintaining compliance.
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