When deploying a healthcare product, HIPAA compliance is crucial. No matter how innovative your solution is, without convincing the CIO or security te

Is Your Security Posture Holding Your Healthcare Startup Back?¶

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2024-10-23 22:00:07

When deploying a healthcare product, HIPAA compliance is crucial. No matter how innovative your solution is, without convincing the CIO or security team, you won't get deployed. I view security and HIPAA posture as essential features of any healthcare product.

I've successfully deployed healthcare products at large payors and health systems with stringent security requirements. Through my mistakes and successes, I've gained valuable insights that I want to share.

From my observations, early-stage startups often fall into two camps: 1. Those who postpone security considerations, thinking "we'll handle it closer to the pilot or contracting phase." 2. Those who overcompensate based on online advice, creating unnecessarily complex security architectures that become difficult to manage long-term.

This post focuses on technical advice for system architecture and navigating dated security risk assessment questionnaires. It doesn't cover legal aspects of compliance policies, BAAs, or insurance needs. Those topics deserve a separate discussion.