HIPAA Compliance for Healthcare

HIPAA applies to US covered entities — health plans, healthcare providers, clearinghouses — and their business associates worldwide, including UAE and India-based telehealth platforms, medical-coding firms, billing services, EHR vendors and cloud hosts processing protected health information (PHI) on US patients.

• The HHS Office for Civil Rights enforces the Privacy, Security and Breach Notification rules; penalties reach $2.0M per violation category per year, and OCR resolution agreements regularly exceed $1M.

We cover the Privacy Rule (uses and disclosures, minimum necessary, individual rights, NPP), the Security Rule (administrative, physical and technical safeguards across §164.308, §164.310, §164.312, §164.314, §164.316), the Breach Notification Rule (§164.400–414) and the Omnibus Rule's business associate provisions.

• Includes a §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) risk analysis, risk management plan, encryption posture (data at rest and in transit), audit controls, access management, workforce sanctions, contingency plans and a fully populated Business Associate Agreement template suite.

Privacy and security officers are designated, an OCR-aligned risk analysis is performed across every ePHI flow, technical safeguards (encryption, MFA, audit logging, automatic logoff) are implemented or validated, and workforce training is delivered with sanctions tracking.

• We run an OCR audit-protocol simulation against the 180 audit elements and prepare a breach response runbook that meets the 60-day notification deadline.

Programme delivered in 10–14 weeks for covered entities of up to 500 employees.

• Clients gain demonstrable defence against OCR enforcement, qualify for cyber insurance with HIPAA-specific underwriting, and unlock US payer and provider contracts gated on a HIPAA attestation.
• Ongoing the programme integrates with HITRUST CSF or SOC 2 + HIPAA for organisations seeking a single audit covering both frameworks.