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Your Patient Portal Just Exposed 12,000 Records. Let's Fix That.

If you're a healthcare founder watching your legal team flag every form field, you need a partner who codes HIPAA into the stack -- not as an afterthought.

We rebuild medical practice websites and healthcare SaaS platforms with HIPAA compliance baked in -- signed BAAs, proper PHI handling, and technical safeguards at every layer.

100%
BAA Coverage
Every vendor in the stack
0
PHI Exposure Points
By architecture, not luck
95+
Lighthouse Score
Performance target
<6wk
Avg. Launch Time
Discovery to deploy
What Is a HIPAA-Compliant Website Redesign?

A HIPAA-compliant website redesign means rebuilding your medical practice or healthcare SaaS site so that every component touching Protected Health Information (PHI) actually meets the technical safeguards required under the HIPAA Security Rule. We're talking encrypted form submissions, access-controlled patient portals, audit logging, signed Business Associate Agreements with every vendor in your stack, and an architecture that prevents PHI from leaking through analytics, caching, or third-party scripts.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your contact forms are probably transmitting patient data over unencrypted channels right now
Risk: One unencrypted PHI submission can trigger a breach notification and fines up to $50K per violation -- and that's per violation, not per incident.
Google Analytics and other third-party scripts are sending PHI to vendors who haven't signed a BAA with you
Risk: HHS considers IP addresses combined with health page visits as PHI. You're likely in violation already.
No signed BAA with your hosting provider or CMS vendor means you're carrying full liability for any breach that happens on their infrastructure
Risk: That's not a theoretical risk.
Your patient portal login probably has no MFA or proper session management
Risk: Unauthorized access to patient records creates both HIPAA liability and malpractice exposure -- two problems you don't want arriving together.
If your site runs on WordPress with 30+ plugins from unknown developers, each one is an unaudited attack surface
Risk: Healthcare sites get targeted 3x more than average.
And without an audit trail showing who accessed what data and when, you'll automatically fail any OCR investigation
Risk: The HIPAA Security Rule requires audit controls. No logs, no defense.

What Your Website Could Look Like

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

HIPAA compliant website redesign before and after with PHI form handling
A real HIPAA website redesign -- before (PHI in unencrypted contact forms, no BAA) vs after (encrypted forms, signed BAAs, audit-logged patient portal)

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Signed BAA Coverage

We sign Business Associate Agreements with every vendor in your stack -- hosting, CDN, email, CMS, and analytics. No gaps, no assumptions, no handshake deals.

PHI-Safe Form Architecture

Patient intake forms, appointment requests, and contact forms use end-to-end encryption and route exclusively through BAA-covered infrastructure. PHI never touches a non-compliant server.

HIPAA-Compliant Analytics

We swap Google Analytics for self-hosted PostHog or Plausible. You get real traffic data without sending PHI to third parties -- and no consent banner theater.

Encrypted Data at Rest and Transit

TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest. Database-level encryption for any stored PHI with key management that meets NIST 800-111 guidelines.

Access Controls & Audit Logging

Staff portals get role-based access control with full audit trails. Every login, data access, and modification is logged with timestamps and user IDs.

Automated Security Scanning

Every deploy runs continuous vulnerability scanning. Dependency audits, OWASP Top 10 checks, and quarterly penetration testing recommendations are included.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Zero-PHI Frontend

A static-first architecture means PHI is never rendered, cached, or exposed at the public-facing site layer.

Encrypted Patient Intake Forms

Multi-step forms with field-level encryption route submissions directly to your EHR or secure inbox.

Headless CMS for Clinical Content

Sanity CMS lets your clinical team update provider bios, services, and educational content without touching code or PHI systems.

Accessible by Default

WCAG 2.2 AA compliance is built into every component -- the ADA requirements apply right alongside HIPAA, and we don't treat them as an afterthought.

Patient Portal Integration

We build a secure SSO bridge to your existing EHR patient portal with MFA, session timeouts, and encrypted deep links.

Sub-Second Page Loads

The site deploys on Vercel with ISR so pages load in under a second. Better experience for patients, better signal for search rankings.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelCloudflarePauboxHushmailPostHog (self-hosted)Sanity CMS

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

HIPAA Gap Assessment

Week 1

We start by auditing your current site against the HIPAA Security Rule's technical safeguards. Every form, script, plugin, and vendor gets documented with risk ratings and clear remediation priorities.

02

Architecture & BAA Alignment

Week 2

Then we design the new stack, confirm BAA coverage for every vendor, and map out data flow diagrams showing exactly how PHI moves through -- or stays out of -- the system.

03

Design & Build

Weeks 3–4

UI/UX design comes next, followed by component-level development in Next.js. PHI handling rules get built into every interactive element from the start, not bolted on at the end.

04

Security Testing & Compliance Review

Week 5

Before launch, we run automated OWASP scanning, manual penetration testing on PHI touchpoints, and a full compliance checklist walkthrough. Nothing goes live until it passes.

05

Launch & 30-Day Support

Week 6+

Migration is zero-downtime with a DNS cutover. We monitor error rates, uptime, and security alerts for 30 days post-launch, then hand off complete compliance documentation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A HIPAA-compliant website implements the technical safeguards the Security Rule actually requires: encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, audit logging, automatic session timeouts, and integrity controls. Every vendor that could touch PHI — hosting, CDN, email, analytics — needs a signed BAA. Compliance is architectural. It's not a plugin you install.
Yes. If your website collects, transmits, or stores any Protected Health Information — including through patient contact forms — your hosting provider is a Business Associate under HIPAA. You need a signed BAA before PHI touches their servers. Vercel and AWS offer BAAs. Most commodity hosts don't.
No. Google explicitly won't sign BAAs for Google Analytics. HHS guidance is clear that tracking technologies combining IP addresses with visits to health-condition pages constitute PHI. We replace GA with self-hosted analytics like PostHog, keeping all data on BAA-covered infrastructure.
Technically possible, but it's a risky foundation. WordPress's plugin ecosystem means every update introduces unaudited code that could expose PHI, and most WordPress hosts won't sign BAAs. We recommend migrating to a headless architecture where the public site has zero PHI exposure and secure functions run on controlled, BAA-covered infrastructure.
Most medical practice sites launch in 5–6 weeks. Healthcare SaaS platforms with patient portals or complex data flows typically take 8–12 weeks. The timeline depends on how many PHI touchpoints you have, which EHR integrations are required, and whether you need custom portal functionality or just a connection to an existing system.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights can impose fines from $100 to $50,000 per violation, with annual maximums of $1.5 million per violation category. Beyond the fines, a breach triggers mandatory patient notification, potential class-action lawsuits, and real reputational damage. State attorneys general can also bring independent enforcement actions on top of all that.
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