hipaa-audit

To audit your application for HIPAA compliance, review how it accesses, logs, stores, and transmits ePHI. This process identifies gaps in administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, generating a prioritized engineering remediation checklist to secure Protected Health Information.

PHI under the HIPAA Security Rule includes 18 specific identifiers used to determine data scope. Auditing validates these identifiers to flag common minimization and de-identification misunderstandings, ensuring only necessary data is processed.

Checking HIPAA minimum-necessary requirements involves validating scope reduction patterns in your API. This ensures queries avoid over-broad PHI access and analytics pipelines only return the necessary fields required for permitted use.

Yes, audit logs support HIPAA breach notification readiness by enabling incident scoping and timing expectations. Evaluating these logs alongside encryption safe-harbor logic helps determine if a breach occurred and if notification is required.

HITECH liability applies to cloud infrastructure handling ePHI by extending HIPAA requirements to SaaS pipelines and infrastructure. Auditing assesses technical safeguards like access control, integrity, and transmission security across these environments.