HIPAA Compliance Engineering & Technical Consulting

A HIPAA compliance consultant reviews how a healthcare application handles PHI — architecture, access control, encryption, audit logging and infrastructure — identifies technical gaps against HIPAA’s Security Rule, and helps implement the remediation. AsterickLabs focuses on the technical implementation side; legal and policy counsel may still be needed for the administrative and legal aspects of a compliance program.

Yes, if the SaaS product creates, receives, maintains or transmits PHI on behalf of a covered entity or another business associate — most healthcare SaaS, telemedicine and digital health platforms fall under HIPAA as a business associate, regardless of company size.

Start with a technical assessment of how PHI moves through the system, then remediate by priority: access control and tenant isolation first, then encryption and audit logging, then infrastructure hardening and monitoring, validating each change against the original gap list.

At minimum: access controls tied to individual users, audit logs of access and changes to PHI, encryption of PHI at rest and in transit, integrity controls to detect unauthorized alteration, and transmission security for data in motion — implemented as engineering controls, not just policy documents.

Yes. The Security Rule requires audit controls that record and examine activity in systems containing PHI — in practice, an immutable log of who accessed or changed what record, when, queryable for a review or investigation.

Encryption is an "addressable" implementation specification, meaning it must be implemented unless an equivalent alternative is documented and justified — in practice, encrypting PHI at rest and in transit is the standard, defensible approach almost every team should take.

PHI should be encrypted at rest, isolated from non-PHI data where practical, access-controlled at the row or field level in multi-tenant systems, and backed up with encryption and a tested recovery process — with clear boundaries around what services and personnel can query it.

Cost depends on the size of the existing codebase, how many gaps the assessment finds, and whether infrastructure needs to change alongside the application. We scope this after a technical assessment and provide a fixed remediation estimate rather than open-ended hours.

A focused remediation on an existing application typically runs four to twelve weeks depending on scope — access control and audit logging first, followed by infrastructure and monitoring work, validated in stages rather than one big cutover.