HIPAA Security Risk Analysis
A defined healthcare security assessment that documents risk, safeguard gaps, third-party exposure, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
HIPAA Security Risk Analysis
For clinics, practices, healthcare organizations, and business associates that need a documented analysis of cybersecurity risk affecting systems, safeguards, policies, evidence, and third parties.
One organization or business unit, systems and workflows handling ePHI, administrative/technical safeguards, available policies and evidence, critical vendors/business associates, and current security-management practices.
Executive risk analysis report, HIPAA-aligned risk register, safeguard gap summary, third-party observations, prioritized remediation roadmap, and leadership readout.
Typically 2–3 weeks from kickoff to final readout, depending on evidence availability and stakeholder scheduling.
Scoped after the initial 30-minute call. Final scope and fee are agreed before work begins.
The engagement is a cybersecurity risk analysis and readiness assessment. It is not a legal opinion, certification, regulatory guarantee, formal audit, or full remediation project. Technical testing, policy rewriting, and implementation are included only when separately scoped.
The HIPAA reality
HIPAA is the only federal privacy and security law most healthcare organizations actually have to comply with day to day. The HIPAA Security Rule has existed since 2005, but enforcement has accelerated in recent years. The Office for Civil Rights has shifted from voluntary corrective action to monetary penalties for organizations that can't demonstrate a documented risk analysis, implemented administrative and technical safeguards, and a current security management process.
A "HIPAA-compliant" EHR vendor doesn't make you HIPAA-compliant. A signed BAA doesn't make you HIPAA-compliant. The Security Rule requires you — the covered entity or business associate — to do the work.
Additional HIPAA security services
Risk Analysis Refresh & Remediation Tracking
Periodic refresh of the risk analysis, remediation tracking, ownership updates, and evidence maintenance as the environment, vendors, systems, and risk profile change.
Security Rule Gap Assessment
An evaluation of your current administrative, physical, and technical safeguards against the 54 implementation specifications in the Security Rule. Findings prioritized by risk, not by alphabetical regulatory order.
Policy and Procedure Development
A complete policy and procedure set covering the Security Rule's required policies — access management, workforce security, incident response, contingency planning, business associate management, and the rest.
Business Associate Agreement Review
Review of your existing BAAs and identification of vendors operating as business associates without one.
Workforce Training Program
HIPAA security awareness training framework aligned to the Security Rule's training requirement.
Breach Response Support
When an incident happens — and at some point, one will — we support breach risk assessment, notification decisions, OCR reporting, and corrective action documentation.
Engagement formats
The defined 2–3 week entry engagement described above: risk analysis report, HIPAA-aligned risk register, safeguard gap summary, remediation roadmap, and leadership readout.
Continuous support including annual risk analysis updates, policy maintenance, training delivery, BAA management, and incident response readiness. Appropriate for organizations that want to stop having "HIPAA fire drills" every year.
When something has already happened — a ransomware event, an inadvertent disclosure, a regulator inquiry — we support the corrective action plan and the documented evidence that you've fixed what went wrong.
Who this is for
Independent medical practices, behavioral and mental health practices, dental groups, ambulatory surgery centers, healthcare-adjacent SaaS companies, medical billing companies, and other covered entities and business associates between 10 and 500 employees.
Start with the HIPAA Security Risk Analysis.
A 30-minute conversation confirms scope, stakeholders, systems, evidence readiness, and whether the defined risk-analysis engagement is the right starting point.
Discuss a HIPAA risk analysis