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Your Website is Broadcasting Patient Data to 47 Ad Networks Right Now

If you're a healthcare CMO watching Google Analytics track PHI while your compliance team sleeps, you've inherited a liability landmine.

We build HIPAA-compliant websites and patient portals with security designed in from the start -- not patched in after launch.

$1.5M
Average HIPAA Breach Fine
HHS OCR average settlement -- website violations included
8-12wk
Build Timeline
HIPAA-compliant website with audit logging + BAA
BAA
Supabase Agreement
Business Associate Agreement available on Supabase Pro + Enterprise
0 PHI
Contact Forms
No PHI collected in forms -- intake routed to HIPAA-compliant EHR
What HIPAA-Compliant Development Actually Protects -- And What Most Sites Miss

Your intake form fires. Patient name, email, appointment reason hit the server -- then a tracking pixel sends that same session ID to a marketing platform with no BAA. HIPAA-compliant website development stops PHI from reaching vendors who can't legally touch it. Your architecture needs encrypted transmission, BAA-covered hosting, session management with auto-timeout, audit logging on every data access, and PHI minimization baked into form design. It's not a plugin. It's infrastructure: Next.js frontends with sub-second loads, server-side validation that never exposes data client-side, headless CMS with publishing governance, and API bridges to Epic or Cerner that encrypt every byte in transit. Most healthcare sites fail before a single patient books -- because compliance wasn't in the blueprint.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your current site almost certainly runs Google Analytics
Risk: Google won't sign a BAA and explicitly bans PHI in their terms. Between 2023 and 2025, healthcare organizations paid over $100 million in HIPAA fines from pixel tracking violations alone -- and most of them didn't think they had a problem either.
Your hosting provider may not offer a Business Associate Agreement
Risk: A lot of people don't realize this, but without a BAA, even a fully encrypted server fails HIPAA's legal requirements. That leaves you exposed to penalties up to $2.1M per violation category.
Patient forms are another quiet liability
Risk: They often collect far more data than the visit actually requires, with no PHI minimization strategy in place. More data means a larger breach surface -- and per-record penalties that compound fast if something goes wrong.
No audit logging on user access, data changes, or admin actions is a serious gap
Risk: Without traceable logs, incident response falls apart. What might have been a containable issue becomes a reportable breach.
Third-party scripts, chat widgets, and marketing pixels routinely transmit PHI to non-compliant vendors
Risk: Under current HHS guidance, an IP address combined with a visit to a health-related page qualifies as PHI. Most marketing stacks fail this test.
Security bolted onto an existing WordPress or Squarespace site doesn't hold
Risk: Most mainstream website builders won't sign BAAs and can't be brought into compliance no matter how many plugins you add. If the foundation's broken, hardening the walls doesn't help.

What Your Website Could Look Like

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

HIPAA compliant healthcare website with patient portal
HIPAA-compliant patient portal with encrypted data handling, secure forms, and audit logging

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

End-to-End Encryption

We use 256-bit AES encryption for data at rest and TLS 1.3 for data in transit. Every database field containing PHI gets encrypted at the application layer -- not just at the disk level.

Business Associate Agreements

We execute and manage BAAs with every vendor in your stack: hosting, analytics, email, CMS, and payment processors. No exceptions, no gaps.

HIPAA-Compliant Analytics

Google Analytics goes. We replace it with Piwik PRO or an equivalent platform that signs a BAA and never routes PHI to non-compliant third parties. You still get full event tracking -- you just don't get the compliance risk that comes with it.

Comprehensive Audit Logging

Every login, data access event, form submission, and admin change gets logged with timestamps and user attribution. Logs are immutable and retained according to your retention policy.

Role-Based Access Controls

Granular permissions mean staff only see the PHI their role actually requires. Multi-factor authentication is enforced across all admin and clinical accounts -- no exceptions.

Automated Vulnerability Scanning

We run continuous security monitoring with automated dependency updates, penetration testing, and real-time alerting on suspicious access patterns.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Build authenticated patient portals with session expiry, role-based access control, and encrypted record retrieval

Your patients schedule, message, and pay bills inside a portal that auto-locks after inactivity and logs every access

Design intake forms that collect only visit-required fields and validate server-side before database commit

Your intake workflow collects the minimum PHI needed, validates in real time, and never touches a non-compliant third party

Integrate telehealth video through BAA-covered providers with encrypted session logs and automated visit summaries

Your telehealth visits run on infrastructure covered by a signed BAA, with session transcripts stored in encrypted databases

Connect EHR/EMR systems via HL7 FHIR and REST APIs with retry logic and end-to-end encryption

Your practice pulls appointment data, lab results, and medication lists from Epic or Athenahealth without manual CSV imports

Deploy WCAG 2.1 AA accessible interfaces on Next.js for sub-second patient-facing load times

Your site loads in under a second on mobile, meets accessibility standards, and keeps patients from bouncing mid-booking

Provision headless CMS with approval workflows and version control that prevent accidental PHI publication

Your content team publishes updates through governed workflows that block PHI from going live without clinical review

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelAWS GovCloudAuth0Piwik PROPostgreSQLNode.js

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Compliance Audit & Architecture

Week 1-2

Here's how a project actually runs. We start by auditing your current digital footprint -- analytics, forms, hosting, third-party scripts -- and documenting where the violations are. Then we design a compliant architecture with hosting providers that offer BAAs, encrypted database schemas, and a vetted vendor stack.

02

Secure Development

Week 3-6

Build phase: input validation on all external data, output encoding to prevent injection attacks, encrypted API integrations, and audit logging built into every operation. Security isn't something we add at the end.

03

Compliance Validation & Penetration Testing

Week 7-8

Before launch, we run systematic verification of encryption implementation, audit log completeness, BAA coverage, and access controls. Third-party penetration testing confirms the architecture holds under real attack conditions -- not just in theory.

04

Deployment & BAA Finalization

Week 9

Production deployment goes to HIPAA-compliant infrastructure with all BAAs executed and documented. Performance testing ensures the security controls don't degrade under real patient traffic.

05

Ongoing Compliance Maintenance

Ongoing

After launch: monthly security patches, quarterly compliance reviews, annual penetration testing, and documentation updates as regulations change. Your compliance posture doesn't get set and forgotten.

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Frequently Asked Questions

On WordPress: WordPress.com and most shared hosting environments won't sign Business Associate Agreements, which rules them out entirely. Self-hosted WordPress on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure with a BAA is technically possible, but it requires serious hardening — encrypted databases, compliant plugins only, audit logging, and removal of every non-compliant third-party script. Honestly, in most cases building on a modern stack like Next.js with compliant infrastructure costs less over a three-to-five year horizon than maintaining a hardened WordPress installation.
On Google Analytics: Google explicitly refuses to sign a BAA and prohibits healthcare organizations from sending PHI through their platform. Under current HHS guidance, an IP address paired with a visit to a health-related page is PHI. Healthcare organizations have paid over $100 million in fines for exactly this. We implement Piwik PRO or a comparable BAA-covered platform that gives you full event tracking without the exposure.
On BAAs: a Business Associate Agreement is a legally binding contract that requires any vendor handling PHI to implement specific security safeguards and accept liability for breaches. HIPAA requires BAAs with every third party that touches PHI — hosting providers, analytics platforms, email services, payment processors, even chat widgets. Using a vendor without a signed BAA is a violation regardless of how secure their infrastructure actually is.
On timelines: a typical HIPAA-compliant healthcare website takes 8-10 weeks from architecture through deployment. Patient portals with EHR integration and complex workflows run 12-16 weeks. Compliance validation and penetration testing are part of that timeline — they can't be compressed. Retrofitting a non-compliant site often takes longer than starting fresh, because you're solving architectural problems before you can build anything on top of them.
On fines: HIPAA penalties in 2025 range from $137 to $2.1 million per violation, depending on negligence level, with annual caps reaching $2 million for repeat violations. Beyond the fine itself, you're looking at mandatory breach notification to affected patients, HHS reporting, corrective action plans that can run two years or more, and real reputational damage with your patient population. Montefiore Medical Center recently landed a $4.75 million penalty with a two-year corrective action plan attached.
On scope: yes, your public-facing website needs to be compliant if it collects, stores, transmits, or displays PHI. That includes appointment scheduling, patient intake forms, symptom checkers, and account login. Even pre-authentication pages can trigger compliance requirements if they collect identifiable health-related data through forms, cookies, or tracking scripts.
A website becomes HIPAA compliant by implementing several key measures to protect patient health information. This includes using encryption for data transmission, ensuring secure hosting environments, and maintaining access controls to limit data access to authorized personnel only. Regular security audits and risk assessments are essential to identify vulnerabilities. Additionally, websites must have a comprehensive privacy policy and obtain patient consent for data collection. Documentation of these security measures and staff training on HIPAA regulations are also necessary to ensure compliance.
Wix, as of the latest information, does not offer HIPAA compliance for its websites. HIPAA compliance requires strict security measures for handling protected health information (PHI), and Wix does not provide the necessary features, such as encryption or business associate agreements (BAAs), which are essential for HIPAA compliance. For healthcare-related sites, it's important to choose a platform specifically designed to meet HIPAA requirements and ensure all data handling processes align with these regulations.
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