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Your Patient Data Could Cost You $50K Per Violation. We Fix That.

If you're a healthcare founder shipping features while HIPAA deadlines close in, your compliance clock just ran out.

We build HIPAA-compliant web applications and audit existing SaaS platforms so healthcare startups can ship fast without risking six-figure fines.

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.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your SaaS stores PHI but you've never done a formal risk assessment
Risk: 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
Risk: 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
Risk: 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
Risk: 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
Risk: 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
Risk: AWS, GCP, and Azure all require specific configurations and signed BAAs before they qualify.

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

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How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

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.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

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.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelAWS GovCloudCloudflarePostgreSQLSOC 2 Tooling

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Scoping

Week 1

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.

02

Security Risk Assessment

Week 2

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

03

Remediation & Implementation

Weeks 3–5

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

04

Validation & Documentation

Week 6

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.

05

Ongoing Monitoring

Ongoing

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

For a typical SaaS startup with an existing application, expect 4–6 weeks. That covers the full security risk assessment, remediation of gaps like missing encryption and audit logging, policy documentation, and final validation. If you're building from scratch on our stack, you can be compliant from day one.
If your data is genuinely de-identified under HIPAA's Safe Harbor method—all 18 identifiers removed—it's not PHI and HIPAA doesn't apply. But most startups underestimate what counts as an identifier. Dates, zip codes, device IDs—all of those can qualify. We'll audit your de-identification process to make sure you're actually in the clear, not just assuming you are.
HIPAA created the Security Rule and Privacy Rule to protect health information. The HITECH Act of 2009 extended those rules to business associates, pushed maximum penalties to $1.9M per violation category, and added breach notification requirements. They work together—you can't comply with one and ignore the other.
No. AWS, GCP, and Azure offer HIPAA-eligible services and will sign BAAs, but compliance is a shared responsibility. You still have to configure encryption, access controls, logging, and network segmentation yourself. A standard S3 bucket or Cloud SQL instance sitting at default settings leaves PHI exposed—doesn't matter what your cloud provider signed.
OCR penalties run from $100 to $50,000 per violation, with annual maximums up to $1.9M per violation category. Beyond the fines, you're looking at mandatory corrective action plans, potential criminal referrals for willful neglect, and the kind of reputational damage that quietly kills your healthcare sales pipeline. Getting compliant now costs less than any of that.
Yes. Large health systems run serious vendor assessments—often 200+ question security questionnaires built on HITRUST or NIST frameworks. We prep your documentation, work through questionnaires with you, and handle follow-up technical questions from their security teams. Our clients routinely pass these reviews on the first submission.
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