Written by
Mirren McDade
Technical Review by
Craig MacAlpine
For any organization that creates, receives, stores or transmits protected health information (PHI), HIPAA compliance is non-negotiable. This is a legal obligation that applies to not just healthcare providers, but to any company in charge of handling private health data.
HIPAA compliance solutions can support organizations in meeting this regulation. They do this by mapping your controls to the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, collecting any relevant evidence that supports your claims that those controls are working, and managing the policies, training, and vendor agreements surrounding them.
A core benefit of using a HIPAA compliance platform is the manual effort it cuts out. By cutting out work and streamlining processes, documentation is kept more current between assessments, and you have defensible sources to give customers and auditors who ask for it. Many platforms also reuse HIPAA evidence across other regulations like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, saving time in meeting compliance with other frameworks as well.
We have put together a shortlist of the best HIPAA compliance solutions available, to help you find the one best suited to your needs. The vendors on our list were picked for their strong capabilities and benefits, based on our own research alongside user reviews.
Achieving HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance as an organization means all patient health data in your organization has its privacy, security, and integrity protected, in accordance with U.S. federal law. The process involves identifying the necessary safeguards, applying those to the PHI you are handling, and keeping clear documentation so you can defend it to a regulator or a customer at any time.
A HIPAA compliance platform combines control mapping and automated evidence collection, along with program management, to support companies in securing the health data they hold and proving their HIPAA compliance with as little manual work as possible. Control mapping involves matching your own controls to the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards of the Security Rule and, in more advanced platforms, to specific sections of the Privacy and Breach Notification Rules also. Automatic evidence collection involves gathering the proof that the controls are in place and operating, things like records of admin access, confirmation of laptop patching, a record that encryption is switched on etc.
Deployment may differ between platforms: any evidence might be collected via API integrations with your cloud infrastructure, ticketing system, and identity provider entirely, or it could also require an agent to be installed on all machines employees use.
Once connected, the platform re-checks all controls on a schedule and provides alerts if one stops passing. Program management refers to things like acknowledgements tracking, policy templates, risk assessments, business associate agreements, training of workforces and reporting of incidents. Multi-framework platforms can typically reuse HIPAA evidence when it comes to achieving and proving ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, while HIPAA specialists might delve deeper into training, exclusion screening, and vendor paperwork, though you would have to gather the technical proof from your own systems yourself.
One point worth being clear on: there is no official HIPAA certification. The Department of Health and Human Services does not recognize or endorse any certification scheme, so no vendor can certify you as HIPAA compliant. What a vendor can provide is a third-party assessment and attestation, which is a report on the safeguards in scope that you can share with partners and customers. Vendor badges and seals evidence an active compliance program rather than any government-recognized status.
The table below compares the 10 HIPAA compliance solutions we reviewed across key capability areas. "BAA Management" means sending, signing and storing your own business associate agreements inside the platform, rather than simply storing a copy or supplying a template.
| Product | Best For | BAA Management | HIPAA Training | Published Pricing |
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Iru
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HIPAA compliance on the same platform as device and identity management
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No
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No
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No
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Vanta
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Broad compliance integrations and continuous testing
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No
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Yes
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No
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Drata
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Compliance tracking and third-party risk management
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No
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Yes
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No
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Secureframe
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Teams that need BAAs signed and stored alongside compliance automation
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Sprinto
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HIPAA policies that arrive pre-written and matched to your environment
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No
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No
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No
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Scytale
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HIPAA risk assessment and self-assessment with expert guidance
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No
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Yes
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No
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Thoropass
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HIPAA and HITRUST readiness and attestation
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No
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No
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No
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Scrut Automation
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HIPAA control mapping across Privacy and Security Rule requirements
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No
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Yes
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No
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Compliancy Group
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Provider organizations needing training, screening and incident reporting
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Accountable HQ
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HIPAA-specific policies, training and risk assessment for small teams
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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We assessed each platform for the depth of its HIPAA coverage, how much audit evidence it can collect automatically, its ability to provide risk assessment and remediation workflows, policy management and workforce training, and integration with existing cloud, identity, and IT tools. To verify any claims made by the vendors we also reviewed real customer feedback.
This article was researched and written by Mirren McDade, with technical review by Craig MacAlpine. You can read more about our methodology at how we test and review products. Read our full methodology
Iru collects HIPAA evidence automatically and continuously through what it calls the Adaptive Evidence Map, keeping safeguards current between assessments. These policies are all managed on the same platform as devices and identities. Device-level safeguards including FileVault encryption enforcement, removable media controls and remote lock and wipe come from the same platform, and policy management tracks timestamped employee acknowledgments that document workforce training and attestations.
We’d recommend Iru to teams of any size that need to implement HIPAA policies as a continuous process and want compliance on the same platform as their device management, EDR and identity.
The console is clean and easy to navigate, and scoping safeguards to groups of devices is quick. Iru is most popular with lean IT teams that operate Mac, iOS, Android and Windows devices.
Timestamped employee acknowledgment tracking is another strong feature. It makes documenting workforce training straightforward and gives you the evidence a HIPAA audit requires.
Compliance is available as a standalone purchase or with the wider platform, priced at under $15,000 a year with unlimited frameworks, with startup discounts available.
Best for broad compliance integrations and continuous testing
Vanta is an automated trust and compliance platform that uses 400+ integrations to automatically collect audit evidence, supporting continuous control testing and audit readiness.
Vanta’s pre-built HIPAA-ready policies are built from auditor-reviewed templates, with AI assistance drafting and updating them and tracking employee acceptance, and built-in security awareness and HIPAA-focused training covers workforce requirements.
Adaptive scoping lets you scope people, assets, and integrations to specific HIPAA controls. Vanta also maintains a centralized inventory of in-scope systems and supports access reviews and monitoring for them.
Cross-framework mapping reuses your HIPAA evidence for certifying with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, reducing duplicate compliance work.
We’d recommend Vanta for teams running large cloud estates who will need to prioritize broad integrations and support for multiple compliance frameworks.
We consider Vanta’s adaptive scoping and evidence automation strong differentiators here. The platform lets you scope HIPAA testing down to what’s actually relevant, and continuous testing makes sure that you can quickly catch issues as they arise.
Vanta does not publish standard software pricing, and some features, including elements of third-party risk management, are available only as add-ons or on higher-tier plans.
Best for compliance tracking and third-party risk management
Drata offers a compliance and third-party risk management platform. Its HIPAA compliance solution structures your HIPAA program around administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, then continuously monitors those safeguard controls and surfaces compliance risks whenever one fails.
The platform links HIPAA risk directly to the safeguards that manage it, updates your posture as your environment changes, and centralizes evidence, test results, and auditor collaboration to make recurring assessments smoother.
Drata supports built-in third-party risk management workflows, and shared controls and evidence can be reused across 30+ pre-built frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, alongside HIPAA.
Drata also provides its own embedded HIPAA training module, which generates a certificate of completion for each employee and recurs annually. AI is used across the platform and can, for example, explain control test failures tied to HIPAA security and privacy requirements, including when controls exhibit unexpected behavior, and policies go through structured reviews, approvals, and version history.
We’d recommend Drata if you need to track third-party business risk alongside HIPAA compliance controls. It’s a very strong pick for teams that need to certify for multiple compliance frameworks, like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, as well as HIPAA.
Controls and evidence can be reused across all of those frameworks, which cuts down on rebuilding the same work as your compliance program expands. Drata also supports HIPAA-related incident response controls and evidence requirements.
We also like the embedded HIPAA training, which issues a completion certificate per employee and recurs annually, giving you the workforce training record HIPAA requires without a separate tool.
Best for teams looking for a compliance automation platform that also facilitates document signing
Secureframe is a cloud-based security and compliance automation platform. It supports your HIPAA compliance program with a policy library covering both privacy and security controls. This library is shared with employees, who are also trained on HIPAA best practices, with training completion and quiz results tracked. The platform continuously monitors your HIPAA administrative and technical safeguards by collecting evidence on them.
Business associate agreements are sent electronically for signature and stored and managed within the platform. In addition, third-party vendors that store, process, or interface with PHI are added to the platform, along with real-time alerts on issues and threats.
Each account gets access to a dedicated customer success manager, and access to Secureframe’s in-house compliance experts and former auditors. Through Secureframe’s common control layer, HIPAA controls you’ve already completed can be applied toward additional frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF.
Secureframe’s handling of the business associate side of HIPAA was something we considered a strong positive. Managing and sending BAAs through the platform, and receiving real-time alerts on vendors that store, process, or interface with PHI, is extremely helpful.
We’d recommend Secureframe to organizations that need BAAs signed, sent, and stored alongside compliance automation controls. The Fundamentals tier starts at $7,000/year and includes one compliance framework.
Best for HIPAA policies that arrive pre-written and matched to your environment
Sprinto is a trust and compliance platform that assembles your HIPAA program pre-built from day one, mapping your systems, PHI workflows, risks, controls, and policies to Security Rule requirements. It guides teams through the necessary safeguards, including access checks and device validation, and runs always-on checks so issues are flagged as soon as they appear.
Evidence is collected automatically via integrations with 300+ systems, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, Google Workspace, and GitHub. Policies are built from auditor-approved templates then matched to your environment. Sprinto also supports third-party risk management with breach alerts.
We’d recommend Sprinto if you need HIPAA quickly and are working with a small security team. The pre-built program, mapped from day one to the Security Rule, lets teams start with a working set of controls and policies.
Customer feedback is strong and one healthcare customer credited their technical account manager with reaching HIPAA compliance in under six weeks. Support responsiveness comes up repeatedly in customer reviews.
Best for HIPAA risk assessment and self-assessment with hands-on expert guidance
Scytale is a GRC platform with built-in AI controls to automate compliance processes. It helps you reach HIPAA compliance with pre-built integrations with your tech stack, risk assessments that identify potential PHI risks, remediation controls and a HIPAA self-assessment for demonstrating compliance. A dedicated compliance expert is available to help your team through each stage, with in-app chat available for support.
Scytale provides a customized HIPAA control list mapped to your requirements. Continuous control monitoring runs 24/7, with real-time alerts for potential issues.
Evidence of your security controls is collected automatically from your connected systems, and a custom policy builder aligns your policies and procedures with HIPAA templates. Built-in HIPAA awareness training keeps employees informed on important policies and protocols.
We’d recommend Scytale to organizations that want customizable and automated HIPAA risk assessment, with a self-assessment at the end that can help demonstrate compliance to customers.
Alongside the AI-powered automation capabilities, a dedicated compliance expert is available to guide you through each stage. That combination of advisory support and automation particularly benefits smaller teams without in-house compliance expertise.
Scytale’s Build plans include one compliance framework, with additional frameworks and more advanced functionality priced by plan.
Best for HIPAA and HITRUST readiness and attestation
Thoropass offers end-to-end compliance automation and audit services. It provides automation to get you HIPAA ready, and its own assessors then carry out the third-party HIPAA assessment that produces your attestation. Thoropass is also an accredited HITRUST External Assessor, a separate credential that lets it deliver HITRUST certification through the same platform and team.
The assessment process runs through five stages, starting with scoping at kick-off, then gathering evidence, risk analysis materials, policies, and training records.
Thoropass performs a third-party assessment of the safeguards and practices in scope, including how your organization protects PHI and ePHI, then delivers a third-party report and attestation you can share with partners, prospects, and customers.
Thoropass is a strong choice for teams looking for a partner to perform the final HIPAA assessment, as well as providing compliance automation controls. The team offer dedicated assigned project managers and auditors to help guide you through the HIPAA compliance process.
We’d recommend Thoropass if you also require HITRUST alongside HIPAA, since Thoropass is an accredited HITRUST External Assessor and can handle both through the same platform and team.
Best for HIPAA control mapping across Privacy and Security Rule requirements
Scrut Automation is a GRC platform that maps each of your HIPAA controls to the Administrative, Physical, or Technical Safeguards, then validates and tests it against the matching area of the Privacy and Security Rules. The platform conducts automated daily checks against key safeguards like encryption enforcement, access control configuration, and audit log integrity. Results are logged to a time-stamped evidence folder.
Getting set up is straightforward, with prebuilt controls, policy templates and hundreds of prebuilt tests to help identify gaps against your HIPAA controls. The Audit Center lets you invite your own auditors or use Scrut’s partner network. This consolidates mapped ePHI controls, evidence requests, and findings in one place.
If you need to meet other compliance frameworks, the Unified Control Framework feature maps your controls across HIPAA, DTAC, SOC 2, and other healthcare frameworks.
We liked the granularity of Scrut’s control mapping, which matches controls to the right safeguard category and Rule area without manual effort. Scrut also covers breach notification thresholds and PHI access audit requirements alongside the core safeguards.
Customers of the service are complimentary about their experience with assigned relationship managers. We’d recommend Scrut for teams looking for a comprehensive compliance framework with pre-built controls mapped to HIPAA requirements, delivered by a trusted provider with their own audit partners.
Best for provider organizations that need HIPAA training, sanction screening, and incident reporting in one program
Compliancy Group is a compliance software provider that delivers streamlined compliance training, policy attestation, risk assessment, and incident logging through a single platform, covering a range of frameworks, including HIPAA. Staff complete training, work through the risk assessment, sign off on policies, and log incidents all from one portal, with risk ratings and supporting evidence for risk assessment responses.
The Employee Conformance Score feature rates each individual on whether their training, policy attestations, and time-sensitive obligations were completed. Reporting is delivered into one trackable dashboard covering every employee, location, and vendor.
Automated sanction and exclusion screening checks vendors and their contacts, not just your own staff, against 55 exclusion lists including the OIG LEIE, SAM, and FDA lists, running weekly. An anonymous reporting form for patients, employees, and third parties tracks reported incidents through investigation and corrective action.
CORA, an AI advisor grounded in healthcare compliance regulations, can also draw on your own policies, risk assessments, and incidents as context, answering questions with citations.
We recommend Compliancy Group for healthcare teams looking for operational compliance, training, screening, and incident management.
We like how Compliancy Group covers parts of HIPAA that compliance automation platforms often leave alone, like sanction screening across vendors and their contacts, anonymous incident reporting, and a documented risk assessment with ratings and supporting evidence attached to responses. Customer feedback is very positive on the onboarding calls, the risk assessment playbook, and the monthly webinars.
Compliancy Group publishes its pricing. Foundation starts at $99 per month billed annually, Growth at $249 and Advanced at $449, each with a per-employee fee on top.
Best for HIPAA-specific policies, training, and risk assessment aimed at small teams
Accountable HQ is a HIPAA-specific compliance solution. Policy templates, training modules and assessment frameworks are all designed for HIPAA specifically.
Features include Vendor and BAA management, which lets you send, track, and store agreements with built-in secure digital signatures, and Data Flow Mapping which documents wherever your PHI moves. The platform also includes MFA reviews and reminders, access-control and off-boarding checks, and phishing simulations round out the platform’s security tooling.
A Trust Center and HIPAA Badge let you easily share your compliance status with customers and partners, and a multi-location dashboard centralizes compliance across every office or clinic. Compliance Success Managers are reachable via chat, email, phone, or Slack, with dedicated compliance support reserved for the Pro plan.
Finally, Accountable HQ includes an AI agent called Compliance Copilot, which can draft your policies, run your risk assessments from start to finish, evaluate vendors that handle PHI, build remediation plans, and generate reports for your review.
Accountable HQ is a comprehensive HIPAA solution, especially relative to its cost. BAA management with e-signature and Data Flow Mapping, alongside policies, training, and risk assessment, all sit in the entry-level Basic HIPAA plan. Accountable HQ also publishes its pricing, starting at $169 per month billed annually for Basic HIPAA, which covers 15 employees.
We’d recommend Accountable HQ for teams of all sizes looking for a dedicated HIPAA compliance platform with strong automation capabilities.
Beyond our top 10, these HIPAA compliance platforms and services are also worth considering.
A GRC platform for organizations managing multiple compliance frameworks, with HIPAA support for larger and more complex programs.
HIPAA risk assessment and security compliance software designed specifically for healthcare organizations.
HIPAA-compliant email security and encryption for organizations that need to send PHI by email.
Healthcare cyber risk management and advisory services that combine risk management software with consulting support.
Pricing in this category splits between the HIPAA specialists, which mostly publish per-month rates with a per-employee fee on top, and the multi-framework compliance platforms, which are almost all quote-based and priced on framework count and company size. Where a third-party assessment is involved, that cost usually sits outside the platform fee.
| Product | Starting Price | Billing | Link |
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Iru
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Under $15,000/year
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All frameworks included, startup discounts available
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Vanta
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Contact for quote
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Company size, frameworks, add-ons
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Drata
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Contact for quote
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Tier (Foundation, Advanced, or Enterprise)
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Secureframe
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From $7,000/year
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Fundamentals tier, one framework included
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Sprinto
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Contact for quote
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Tier (Foundation or Growth), add-on frameworks
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Scytale
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Contact for quote
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Build plans include one framework; extras priced by plan
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Thoropass
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Contact for quote
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Frameworks, assessment scope, company size, services
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Scrut Automation
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Contact for quote
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Not published
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Compliancy Group
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From $99/month
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Foundation tier billed annually, plus a per-employee fee
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Accountable HQ
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From $169/month
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Basic HIPAA billed annually, 15 employees included
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When selecting a HIPAA compliance solution, we recommend working through the following evaluation and deployment steps.
Depending on your organization's needs, you may be better served by a multi-framework platform that can reuse evidence and controls across HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, or by a HIPAA-focused specialist with greater emphasis on areas such as workforce training, risk assessments, business associate management, and exclusion screening. Start by identifying where the gaps in your existing compliance program actually sit. Do you need better technical evidence collection from your infrastructure, or more help managing people, policies, vendors, and other operational requirements? Many organizations will need both.
Some solutions focus heavily on Security Rule safeguards and provide less coverage for other HIPAA requirements. Check where responsibility for Privacy Rule activities and Breach Notification Rule procedures sits, including how the organization will identify, assess, document, and respond to potential breaches and meet applicable notification requirements.
A scoring system on its own is not enough. Your risk analysis should leave you with clear, documented evidence of the risks you've identified, the systems and processes involved, how those risks were evaluated, and what you plan to do about them. Ask vendors to show you a sample risk assessment output before you buy. This will help you judge whether the platform produces useful documentation or simply assigns scores without enough context.
If a compliance platform will create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on your behalf, check whether it qualifies as a business associate and whether it will sign a BAA. Simply storing compliance evidence does not automatically make a vendor a business associate, and several platforms in this category state explicitly that they do not handle PHI and will not sign one. You should also check how the platform manages the BAAs you enter into with your own business associates. Some solutions can send, sign, track, and store BAAs within the platform, while others only store a copy or supply a template.
Some platforms use an endpoint agent to collect device or configuration evidence. These agents may need to be installed on employees' laptops, which can add work to the rollout and may require coordination with IT and staff. Understand exactly what needs to be installed, what evidence it collects, and whether there are alternative ways to satisfy the same requirements before you begin implementation.
Advanced capabilities such as deeper risk management, multi-framework support, vendor risk management, exclusion screening, additional reporting, or dedicated support may be limited to higher-priced plans. Check the exact features included in the tier you're considering, including any add-ons or limits on users, locations, frameworks, or integrations, before you commit.
Some vendors combine compliance readiness software with a third-party assessment service, while others provide the software and leave you to arrange an assessor separately. A smaller number can handle both readiness and assessment through the same organization or audit practice. Find out exactly who will perform the assessment, whether it is a third party, and what report or attestation you will receive at the end.
HIPAA compliance software generally falls somewhere between two models. At one end are broader GRC and compliance automation platforms that integrate with your identity systems, cloud infrastructure, and code repositories, collect technical evidence automatically, and reuse that work across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other frameworks. At the other end are HIPAA specialists built around the operational side of the regulation: workforce training, risk assessments, business associate agreements, exclusion screening, and incident reporting.
Neither model covers everything. The automation platforms are strongest on the technical safeguards of the Security Rule and thinner on the administrative work HIPAA also requires. The specialists handle training, screening, and vendor paperwork well, but expect you to gather technical proof from your own systems.
Start by working out which half of the problem you actually have. If your controls are sound but your documentation is scattered across spreadsheets and screenshots, an automation platform will close that gap faster. If your infrastructure is already covered by an existing compliance program and what you lack is workforce training, signed BAAs, and a defensible risk assessment, a HIPAA specialist will do more for you.
Be clear on what you get at the end, too. No vendor can certify your HIPAA compliance, because no HIPAA certification exists. What you can get is a third-party assessment and attestation, which a small number of vendors perform themselves and the rest leave you to arrange. Ask which applies before you sign, and ask to see a sample risk assessment output while you are at it.
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Mirren McDade is a senior writer and journalist at Expert Insights, spending each day researching, writing, editing and publishing content, covering a variety of topics and solutions, and interviewing industry experts.
She is an experienced copywriter with a background in a range of industries, including cloud business technologies, cloud security, information security and cyber security, and has conducted interviews with several industry experts.
Mirren holds a First Class Honors degree in English from Edinburgh Napier University.
Craig MacAlpine is CEO and Founder of Expert Insights. Before founding Expert Insights in August 2018, Craig spent 10 years as CEO of EPA Cloud, an email security provider that rebranded as VIPRE Email Security following its acquisition by Ziff Davis, formerly J2Global (NASDAQ: ZD) in 2013.
Craig is a passionate security innovator with over 20 years of experience helping organizations to stay secure with cutting-edge information security and cybersecurity solutions.
Using his extensive experience in the email security industry, he founded Expert Insights with the singular goal of helping IT professionals and CISOs to cut through the noise and find the right cybersecurity solutions they need to protect their organizations.