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Read the blog →HIPAA, the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, sets national rules for protecting individuals' health information. Its Security Rule requires administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information (ePHI). It applies to healthcare providers, health plans, and the business associates that handle health data on their behalf.
If your software touches patient data on behalf of a covered entity, you are likely a business associate and must sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and meet the Security Rule. That obligation flows down your subcontractor chain too.
HIPAA is principles-based rather than a fixed checklist, centered on a documented risk analysis. Many health-tech vendors layer SOC 2 on top to give buyers an independent attestation alongside their HIPAA posture.
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HIPAA arrives through a customer contract far more often than through a regulator. A health system or payer asks you to sign a Business Associate Agreement, and the obligations follow from that.
The most common gap is the Security Rule risk analysis. It is mandatory, it is specific, and it is frequently missing entirely because teams assumed a policy set covered it.
No. Nobody issues a HIPAA certificate. What your customers are asking for is evidence: the risk analysis, your safeguards, your BAAs and your breach notification process.
No. A BAA from AWS, GCP or Azure covers their layer. Your application, access controls, logging and staff training sit outside it and are exactly what a customer security team will ask about.
Track record
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.
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.
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