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Framework readiness

HIPAA Readiness

From $3,000 (gap) CAD · scoped to you

HIPAA is the US law that governs how protected health information (PHI) is handled by covered entities and their business associates, enforced by the HHS Office for Civil Rights. If you build software that touches health data, your enterprise buyers will demand a signed Business Associate Agreement and evidence you take the Security Rule seriously. We build that foundation with you.

A SOC 2 Type II taken from no programme at all to zero exceptions across 76 controls: how it was built.
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Built for teams that...

  • Health-tech and digital-health startups handling PHI as a business associate
  • SaaS platforms that need to sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) to close deals
  • Companies whose hospital, payer, or provider customers require HIPAA attestation
  • Teams that have never done a formal HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis

What we do

  • HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis covering administrative, physical, and technical safeguards
  • Gap assessment against the Security Rule and applicable Privacy Rule obligations
  • Policy and procedure set: access control, encryption, audit logging, breach response
  • Business Associate Agreement (BAA) review and vendor mapping for downstream PHI flows
  • Workforce security and training guidance so safeguards hold up in practice
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap to close identified gaps

What you walk away with

You walk away able to sign BAAs with confidence, with a documented risk analysis and safeguard set that stands up to buyer scrutiny and OCR expectations. HIPAA is not a certificate you earn once but an ongoing obligation, so we leave you with a program you can actually maintain.

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Frequently asked questions

Does HIPAA apply to my software company?

If you create, receive, maintain, or transmit protected health information on behalf of a covered entity such as a provider or payer, you are likely a business associate and HIPAA applies to you. Handling PHI without HIPAA safeguards is a common reason health-tech deals stall.

Is there a HIPAA certification?

No. HIPAA is a US law, not a certification scheme, so there is no official HIPAA certificate. What buyers actually want is a signed BAA plus evidence of a completed risk analysis and safeguards. We help you produce exactly that.

What is a Business Associate Agreement?

A BAA is a contract between a covered entity and a business associate that sets out each party’s obligations for protecting PHI. HIPAA requires one before PHI is shared. We review your BAAs and map where PHI flows to downstream subcontractors.

How long does HIPAA readiness take?

It varies by scope and how much of your security foundation already exists. A company with mature access controls and logging moves faster. We scope a realistic timeline up front rather than promising a fixed number.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

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.

HIPAA Readiness, on your timeline

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

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.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

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.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

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.

Recent engagements

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.