DevOps Consulting for Healthtech
Health data is the least forgiving workload there is: a breach is a federal reporting event, an outage can interrupt care, and a lost record is unrecoverable in a way lost revenue is not. HIPAA’s technical safeguards — access control, audit controls, integrity, transmission security — are infrastructure requirements. We implement them as code, so your compliance posture is something the platform enforces rather than something a policy document claims.
PHI leaks into places it should never be
Patient data ends up in application logs, debug dumps, analytics events and unencrypted backups — every copy is breach surface, and most teams cannot even enumerate the copies.
How we fix it — We trace where PHI actually flows, then close it down: structured logging with redaction at the source, encrypted backups with scoped access, and non-production environments fed by de-identified or synthetic data — never a prod snapshot.
"HIPAA-compliant" is asserted, not demonstrated
A BAA with your cloud provider covers their side, not yours. When a health-system customer or OCR asks how access control and audit trails are enforced, a diagram and good intentions do not pass.
How we fix it — Technical safeguards mapped to concrete controls: per-user identity with least-privilege RBAC, KMS-backed encryption at rest and TLS in transit, immutable audit logs, and automatic session and credential expiry — each one enforced in code you can show.
Clinical uptime with a startup-sized team
When clinicians depend on your product, downtime is not lost revenue — it interrupts care. But you cannot staff a 24/7 SRE team to defend against it.
How we fix it — SLO-based monitoring with multi-burn-rate alerts that page only when patients would notice, plus runbooks your on-call engineer can execute at 2 a.m. Fewer, shorter incidents — without hiring a platform team.
Backups exist; restores have never been rehearsed
Losing clinical data is unrecoverable in a way losing an order history is not. A backup that has never been restored is a hope — and ransomware operators specifically target health data because of it.
How we fix it — Automated, encrypted, versioned backups with a rehearsed restore drill and written RTO/RPO. You get a recovery procedure that has actually been executed, not a checkbox.
HIPAA technical safeguards, implemented as code.
The Security Rule names the controls; it does not build them. We translate each safeguard into infrastructure that enforces it — so the answer to a security questionnaire is a link to the control, not a paragraph of reassurance.
- Access controlUnique user identity everywhere, least-privilege RBAC, automatic de-provisioning — no shared logins anywhere near PHI.
- Audit controlsWho accessed what, when, from where — captured at the API and database layer and shipped to tamper-resistant storage.
- Transmission securityTLS on every hop, including service-to-service inside the cluster via mTLS — not just at the load balancer.
- Contingency planningEncrypted backups, a tested restore, and a DR plan with measured recovery times — the safeguard most startups skip until an incident.
Two free tools, no signup: estimate your cloud waste with the cost calculator, or score your production posture on the security scorecard. Fixed-scope packages and prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked
Do you sign BAAs?
Where our access could touch PHI, yes — though we design engagements so we work on infrastructure with synthetic or de-identified data wherever possible, which is better for everyone. Your cloud provider BAA (AWS, Azure, GCP all offer them) covers the platform layer.
Can you help us pass a health-system security review?
Yes. Hospital and payer procurement reviews ask for specifics: encryption standards, access-control model, audit-log retention, DR times. We build the infrastructure so those answers are concrete and evidenced, which materially shortens enterprise health-care sales cycles.
We are on AWS with a BAA — are we not already covered?
The BAA makes AWS eligible for PHI; it does not configure your side. Encryption settings, IAM scoping, logging, network isolation and backup policy are all your responsibility — that configuration layer is exactly what we build and harden.
Infrastructure that treats patient data like it matters.
A free audit against HIPAA’s technical safeguards and general production readiness — what is solid, what an OCR investigator or hospital security review would flag, and what to fix first.
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