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Exposure to HIPAA penalties
Patient data stored unencrypted, or vendors handling ePHI without a Business Associate Agreement.
Patient data security gaps and missing HIPAA safeguards in the cloud
HIPAA cloud security review for health-tech infrastructure
Implement the technical safeguards HIPAA expects in your cloud: encryption, access logging, log redaction and secure video. Compliance itself also rests on your risk analysis, policies and agreements.
Symptoms
Signs your platform has this problem
If several of these sound familiar, the plan below is where we would start.
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No tamper-evident access logs
No way to show who viewed, changed or exported a patient record.
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Insecure video consultations
Telehealth calls routed through services that aren't covered by a BAA.
Remediation plan
How we fix it, step by step
Each phase ends with a measurement, so you can see what changed before the next one starts.
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ePHI data flow and vendor review
Mapping where patient data flows and listing every vendor that needs a BAA in place.
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Encryption with KMS
Encrypting ePHI at rest with KMS keys, plus field-level encryption for the most sensitive values.
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Immutable access logging
Writing an audit record for every ePHI access and change to S3 with Object Lock.
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Secure telehealth video
Encrypted WebRTC media through infrastructure covered by your BAAs.
Technical checklist
Remediation checklist
What we check before a change goes to production:
- Confirm a signed BAA is in place with every vendor that handles ePHI
- Encrypt databases, EBS volumes and S3 buckets with KMS keys
- Redact patient identifiers from application logs before they leave the service
- Keep immutable access audit trails with S3 Object Lock
What we measure
We take a baseline first and report the same measurements after each change, from your own monitoring — evidence, not promised results.
- Encryption
- Data stores holding ePHI that are encrypted with KMS
- Access logging
- ePHI read and write paths that emit an audit record
- Log leakage
- Patient identifiers found when scanning application logs
Related service
Cloud & DevOps
Cloud cost optimization, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD that make deploys boring — savings and reliability measured in your dashboards, not our deck.
Explore Cloud & DevOpsQuestions
Questions about this remediation
AWS offers HIPAA-eligible services and will sign a BAA with you. Your workload is only covered when it uses eligible services configured with encryption, access control and logging — compliance remains a shared responsibility.
We add log redaction filters that detect and mask identifiers such as medical record numbers, SSNs and names before logs reach monitoring systems.
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