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Read the blog →HIPAA is the US federal law governing protected health information (PHI), enforced by the HHS Office for Civil Rights through its Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
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US-facing health tech, digital health, and any vendor that handles PHI as a covered entity or a business associate.
The core of what HIPAA asks you to put in place.
HIPAA has no certification; you attest to compliance. A risk analysis and remediation program commonly runs a few months, with compliance maintained continuously.
We run your HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis, implement administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, get your BAAs in order, and build documentation you can show a customer or regulator, often alongside a SOC 2 report.
See Security and Compliance, or compare estimated HIPAA cost in CAD. Based in Toronto and led by a published security researcher, we deliver across Canada and the US.
Reading about a framework only gets you so far. Our free compliance workspace takes you through all 84 requirements of HIPAA, one at a time, each explained in plain English with what an auditor will want to see, plus somewhere to attach the evidence and a readiness score that moves as you close gaps. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing locked.
The workspace is free and stays free. Traztech makes money when someone wants help closing the gaps it finds, not from the tool.
The control library, the evidence, the policies and the readiness score all have to live somewhere. That is normally quoted as an annual subscription. Ours is free, and it is the same workspace we run engagements in.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.
No. HIPAA is a legal obligation enforced by HHS OCR, not a certification scheme, and there is no official government HIPAA certificate. You demonstrate compliance through documentation, a risk analysis, and implemented safeguards.
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS/OCR).
A contract required whenever a vendor handles PHI on behalf of a covered entity, binding the vendor to HIPAA safeguards.
Many health tech vendors do both. HIPAA is the legal baseline for PHI, while SOC 2 is the report enterprise buyers ask for.
Unauthorized acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of unsecured PHI generally triggers notification to individuals, HHS, and sometimes the media, on statutory timelines.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether HIPAA fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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Track record
We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.
The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.
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