If your organisation handles US healthcare data — as a hospital-tech vendor, medical-billing or RCM provider, health-tech SaaS or BPO — your customers require HIPAA compliance. Invitty helps Indian companies become and stay HIPAA-compliant: risk analysis, safeguards, policies, Business Associate Agreements, training and audit-ready evidence.
What HIPAA Requires
- Security Rule — administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information (ePHI).
- Privacy Rule — how PHI may be used and disclosed.
- Breach Notification Rule — timelines and process for reporting breaches.
- Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) — contracts with every vendor that touches PHI.
Our HIPAA Compliance Service
- HIPAA gap assessment & risk analysis — the mandatory security risk analysis, mapped to the Security Rule.
- Safeguard implementation — access control, encryption, audit logging, MFA, backup and endpoint security.
- Policies & procedures — a complete HIPAA policy set tailored to your operations.
- BAA management — templates and a register of your business associates.
- Workforce training and incident-response/breach-notification playbooks.
- Evidence & audit readiness — documentation your clients and their auditors will accept.
Built for Indian Companies Serving US Healthcare
We combine hands-on security implementation with compliance documentation, so HIPAA is real (not paper-only) and closes deals with your US clients. Pair HIPAA with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 to satisfy the broadest set of enterprise buyers, or run it inside a unified GRC programme.
“Addressable” does not mean optional
The single most common misreading of the HIPAA Security Rule is treating addressable specifications as discretionary. They are not. An addressable specification must either be implemented, or you must document why it is not reasonable and appropriate for your organisation and what you did instead. A blank where the reasoning should be is a finding.
The Rule organises safeguards into three groups, and audits probe all three rather than only the technical one:
- Administrative — risk analysis, workforce clearance and sanctions, training, incident response, contingency planning. This is the largest group and the one most often thinnest in practice.
- Physical — facility access, workstation siting and use, device and media disposal and reuse.
- Technical — access control, audit controls, integrity, authentication, transmission security.
A documented risk analysis underpins the rest; it is both an explicit requirement and the evidence that your other decisions were reasoned rather than arbitrary. Requirements are also periodically revised, so confirm the current revision rather than working from an older summary.
What counts as PHI, and what de-identification requires
Scope drives cost here more than anything else, and scope is set by where protected health information actually travels — which is usually wider than the clinical system. Support tickets with patient details, backups, log files, screenshots in a ticketing tool and test environments populated with production data are all in scope, and test data is the one most often forgotten.
De-identified data falls outside the Rule, but the bar is specific and higher than most teams assume. Removing names is not de-identification. The Safe Harbor method requires removal of a defined list of eighteen identifier types — names, geographic detail below state level, all date elements finer than year for dates relating to an individual, contact details, account and record numbers, device identifiers, biometrics, full-face images and any other unique identifying code — with no actual knowledge that what remains could still identify someone. The alternative route is a documented determination by a suitably qualified person that re-identification risk is very small.
Separately, anyone handling PHI on your behalf needs a business associate agreement in place, and those obligations flow down to their subcontractors. For Indian service providers this is often the gating item in a US client's vendor review.