HIPAA Compliant Software Development: Step-by-Step Guide for Healthtech Founders
Vladimir Levchenko
Step Two: Conduct a Risk Analysis Before Writing Any Code The HIPAA Security Rule explicitly requires a thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ePHI. This isn't bureaucratic box-checking. A proper risk analysis fundamentally shapes your architecture. A risk analysis for healthtech software should identify every system, application, and data flow that will touch ePHI. For each, you assess the likelihood of a threat occu