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Your Patient Data Sits on Servers Built for Shopify. That's Your HIPAA Problem.

If you're a healthcare CTO inheriting legacy infrastructure, you're one breach notification away from a $50K OCR fine and front-page damage.

HIPAA-compliant infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with signed BAAs, encrypted data pipelines, and audit-ready architecture.

100%
BAA Coverage
All cloud providers
256-bit
AES Encryption
At rest & in transit
99.99%
Uptime SLA
Multi-AZ redundancy
$0
HIPAA Violations
Across all clients
What Is HIPAA Compliant Hosting?

HIPAA-compliant hosting is cloud infrastructure configured to meet the technical safeguards required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In practice, that means signed Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with your cloud providers, encryption of Protected Health Information (PHI) both at rest and in transit, tight access controls, audit logging, and automated breach detection. If your system stores, processes, or transmits PHI, you're legally required to run it on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure -- no exceptions for covered entities or business associates.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

No signed BAA with your cloud provider
Risk: One breach without a BAA can trigger fines up to $1.9M per violation category under HHS enforcement.
PHI sitting in unencrypted databases or object storage
Risk: Unencrypted PHI is a reportable breach by default -- the risk assessment safe harbor doesn't apply.
No centralized audit logging for PHI access
Risk: OCR investigators ask for 6 years of access logs during audits. Missing logs mean automatic findings, full stop.
Real patient data in development and staging environments
Risk: Non-production environments without proper safeguards are, consistently, the number one source of accidental PHI exposure.
Manual infrastructure provisioning with undocumented configs
Risk: Configuration drift creates security gaps that look fine on day one and fall apart under a sustained audit.
No automated intrusion detection or breach notification pipeline
Risk: HIPAA gives you 60 days to report a breach. Without automation, most teams miss that window.

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How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Business Associate Agreements

We configure and document signed BAAs with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud as part of every deployment. Your BAA chain is complete -- from application layer down to infrastructure provider.

PHI Encryption at Rest & In Transit

AES-256 encryption for all stored PHI, TLS 1.3 for data in transit. Key management runs through AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud KMS with automatic rotation built in.

Role-Based Access Controls

Granular IAM policies enforce least-privilege access to PHI. Every service account, developer role, and API token gets scoped to exactly the permissions it needs -- nothing more.

Immutable Audit Logging

CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, or Google Cloud Audit Logs capture every PHI access event. Logs live in tamper-proof, append-only storage with 7-year retention.

Automated Vulnerability Scanning

Continuous scanning across infrastructure and application layers for CVEs and misconfigurations. Alerts fire in minutes, not days, with automated remediation for known patterns.

Breach Detection & Notification Pipeline

Real-time anomaly detection via GuardDuty, Sentinel, or Security Command Center. Automated notification workflows keep you inside that 60-day HIPAA breach reporting window.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Multi-Cloud BAA Architecture

Deploy on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud -- or across multiple providers -- with BAA coverage at every layer of the stack.

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Every resource is version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible. That kills configuration drift and eliminates undocumented changes before they become audit problems.

PHI Data Isolation

Dedicated VPCs, private subnets, and network segmentation make sure PHI never shares resources with non-compliant workloads.

Automated Backup & Disaster Recovery

Cross-region encrypted backups with tested recovery procedures and documented RPO/RTO targets that satisfy HIPAA's continuity requirements.

Synthetic PHI for Development

Realistic but fully synthetic patient data for staging and development. Real PHI doesn't leave production.

Compliance Documentation Package

Everything gets delivered with a complete technical safeguards matrix, network diagrams, and risk assessment documentation ready for an OCR audit.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

AWSAzureGoogle CloudNext.jsSupabaseVercelTerraformDocker

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

PHI Scope & Risk Assessment

Week 1

We map every system that touches PHI, pin down your covered entity or business associate obligations, and document the risk profile that shapes every architecture decision.

02

Architecture & BAA Setup

Week 2-3

We design the cloud architecture using BAA-backed services only. IAM policies, encryption configurations, network isolation, and audit logging are all in place from day one -- not bolted on later.

03

Infrastructure Deployment

Week 3-5

All resources get provisioned via Terraform with peer-reviewed pull requests. Every change is logged, reversible, and tied back to a specific compliance requirement.

04

Security Validation & Penetration Testing

Week 5-6

We run both automated and manual security assessments against the deployed infrastructure -- encryption, access controls, breach detection pipelines, all of it tested under realistic conditions.

05

Documentation & Handoff

Week 6-7

We hand over the complete compliance documentation package, train your team on day-to-day operational procedures, and stick around for 30 days of post-launch monitoring and support.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. AWS offers HIPAA-eligible services and will sign a BAA, but compliance is shared responsibility. You still have to correctly configure encryption, access controls, audit logging, and network isolation yourself. Running on AWS doesn't make your application HIPAA-compliant — the configuration and your operational procedures are what actually matter.
A BAA is a legally required contract between a covered entity and any vendor that handles PHI on their behalf. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all offer BAAs, but each one covers only specific services within their platform. Using a service that isn't covered by a BAA to process PHI is a compliance violation — regardless of whatever else you have in place.
Vercel and Netlify don't currently sign BAAs, so they can't host applications that process or store PHI. That said, you can use them for static frontend assets that contain zero PHI while running your backend and database on BAA-covered AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud services. It's a workable split, as long as the boundary is clean.
Monthly infrastructure costs typically land between $500 and $5,000 depending on compute, storage, and data transfer. The bigger number is usually the upfront architecture and configuration work. Cutting corners on setup to trim monthly costs is exactly how breaches happen. Our fixed-fee setup makes sure the foundation is audit-ready before anything goes live.
If your data meets all 18 Safe Harbor de-identification criteria under 45 CFR 164.514, it's no longer PHI and HIPAA's technical safeguards don't apply. Partial de-identification doesn't cut it — one remaining identifier and you're back to full PHI treatment. We'll help you verify your de-identification methodology before you make that assumption.
The Office for Civil Rights asks for risk assessments, technical safeguards documentation, BAAs, access logs, breach response procedures, and employee training records going back six years. Our compliance documentation package is structured to answer those requests without the last-minute scramble. And because everything is infrastructure-as-code, every configuration decision is traceable and defensible.
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