HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA compliance tracking for healthcare startups

Track Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification requirements with plain-English checklists built for healthtech and digital health teams.

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What HIPAA compliance requires

HIPAA applies to covered entities and their business associates — any company that creates, receives, or handles Protected Health Information (PHI). There are three primary rules you must comply with.

Privacy Rule

Sets standards for how PHI can be used and disclosed. Covers patient rights, minimum necessary standards, and permissible disclosures without authorisation.

Security Rule

Requires administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for electronic PHI (ePHI). Covers access controls, encryption, audit trails, and workforce training.

Breach Notification Rule

Requires notification to affected individuals and HHS within 60 days of discovering a PHI breach. Large breaches also require media notification.

Business Associate Agreements

BAAs required with all vendors who access or process PHI on your behalf — cloud providers, EHRs, analytics platforms, and more.

Risk analysis

A thorough, accurate assessment of potential risks and vulnerabilities to ePHI confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Workforce training

All workforce members who handle PHI must receive HIPAA training appropriate to their role and responsibilities.

How Complara tracks HIPAA requirements

Instead of navigating the HHS guidance documents alone, Complara gives you a structured checklist covering every Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification requirement — in language your engineering team can act on.

Rule-by-rule checklist

Every HIPAA requirement mapped to actionable tasks. Know exactly what policies to write, what technical controls to implement, and what BAAs to sign.

Evidence storage

Attach your BAAs, risk analysis documentation, training records, and security policies directly to each checklist item.

Team assignments

Assign Privacy Rule items to your legal team, Security Rule items to engineering, and training requirements to HR — all tracked in one place.

Readiness reports

Generate a HIPAA readiness export to share with healthcare enterprise customers or during OCR audits.

Related compliance frameworks

Healthcare startups often need HIPAA alongside SOC 2 for SaaS security assurance and GDPR for EU patient data. Complara covers all three in one platform.

Frequently asked questions about HIPAA

Who needs to be HIPAA compliant?

Covered entities (healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses) and their business associates — companies that create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of covered entities. If you build healthtech software that touches patient data, you're likely a business associate.

What are the three HIPAA rules?

The Privacy Rule governs use and disclosure of PHI. The Security Rule requires safeguards for electronic PHI. The Breach Notification Rule requires notifying affected parties within 60 days of a breach.

What are HIPAA fines?

Fines range from $100 to $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.9 million per violation category. Criminal penalties apply for wilful neglect.

Do I need a HIPAA compliance officer?

Covered entities are required to designate a Privacy Official and a Security Official. Business associates are not explicitly required to, but it's strongly recommended as best practice. Read our HIPAA guide →

Start your HIPAA checklist today

Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Breach Notification — all covered with plain-English checklists and evidence storage built in.