HIPAA Compliance & Security Risk Analysis

HIPAA Compliance & Security Risk Analysis

The HIPAA Security Rule requires every covered entity and business associate to conduct an accurate and thorough risk analysis of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the electronic protected health information it holds, and to act on what that analysis finds. It is not a one-time form. It is a documented review of where ePHI lives, what threats and vulnerabilities apply to each place it lives, how likely and how damaging each one is, and what you are doing about it. There is no official government HIPAA certification, so no vendor can make you certified. What you can have is a defensible risk analysis, a risk management plan, written policies, signed business associate agreements and evidence that you followed through. Cost is driven by how many systems and locations hold ePHI, how many vendors touch it, whether you have current policies and prior analyses to build on, how much of the remediation you want us to perform versus do yourself, and whether an independent third-party assessment is required by a contract or a payer. Ranges vary widely for exactly those reasons, and any firm quoting a flat price before scoping your environment is guessing.

We work with medical and dental practices, behavioral health and therapy groups, billing companies, and health tech vendors that need to answer security questionnaires from hospital and payer customers. The engagement starts with an inventory of every system that creates, receives, maintains or transmits ePHI, including the ones nobody lists on the first pass, such as scanners, text reminder tools, personal phones, backup drives and the cloud accounts a staff member set up years ago. From there we run the analysis, rate the risks, and produce a risk management plan you can actually execute. We also do the remediation. Because we build and run networks, servers, workstations and line-of-business software for small and mid-sized businesses, we can close the findings ourselves rather than hand you a report and leave. That includes access controls, encryption, logging and log review, backup and recovery testing, email and endpoint hardening, offboarding procedures, workforce training, and the business associate agreements that are missing or outdated. Where a contract or regulator requires an independent assessment body, we deliver that portion with accredited partners and keep our own role on the remediation side.

Our Process

Key Benefits

• A defensible answer when a regulator or payer asks
• Findings fixed, not just listed in a report
• Clear scope before you commit to a price
• Security questionnaires you can complete honestly
• Documentation that survives staff turnover
• One firm for the analysis and the IT work

Technologies

HIPAA Security Rule HIPAA Privacy Rule HITECH Breach Notification Rule NIST SP 800-66 NIST SP 800-30 OCR Audit Protocol NIST Cybersecurity Framework CIS Controls