healthcare-phi-compliance

Row level security protects PHI by enforcing facility-level and role-aware isolation, ensuring staff can only access patient records from their assigned facility. You apply explicit RLS policies to patient tables to scope read and write access per tenant.

PHI includes identifiable health information requiring strict protection, while PII covers broader personal identifiers. Data classification standardizes what must be protected across APIs, storage, and logs to prevent accidental exposure of sensitive patient information.

Audit logging for HIPAA compliance captures structured entries for every PHI access or modification using opaque identifiers instead of names or medical record numbers. This tamper-resistant tracking blocks common leak vectors like verbose errors and unsafe console output.

Common PHI leak vectors include client errors, URLs, browser storage, and unsafe console output. Prevention requires guardrails that prohibit PHI exposure in these channels, combined with structured audit entry capture and explicit read/write audit behaviors.

Yes, facility-scoped access control is designed for multi-tenant isolation. Role-aware RLS policies ensure staff can only read records from their assigned facility, with insert-only audit behaviors and explicit read/write tracking for every patient data interaction.