See the state
Understand where the practice stands today.
Current compliance score, unresolved risks, overdue requirements, vendor status, and workforce obligations — visible in one place, updated as the practice changes.
$9.8M
This is what it costs when compliance is just a checkbox.1
HIPAA compliance software for independent practices.
Typical compliance software is built for audits. Patient Protect is built for breaches.
An action-oriented operating system for small practices — running continuously, closing gaps as they open, and preserving the evidence as the work gets done.
Patient Protect — Compliance Scoreboard
Breach Intel — Live
Change Healthcare · 190,000,000 records · TN · Hacking/IT Incident●Kaiser Foundation Health Plan · 13,400,000 records · CA · Unauthorized Access●Ascension Health · 5,599,699 records · WI · Hacking/IT Incident●WebTPA Employer Services · 2,429,175 records · TX · Hacking/IT Incident●MedStar Health · 183,079 records · MD · Hacking/IT Incident●
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Independent practices carry hospital-grade obligations without hospital-grade infrastructure.
Patient data moves through employees, vendors, devices, inboxes, forms, referrals, cloud applications, and physical workflows. Most practices have no central system for seeing the full surface — until something fails.
Live tracking of breach reports, enforcement actions, and compliance updates is published in HIPAA Pulse — our editorial publication.
Where the breach surface hides in an independent practice.
Not every gap looks like a security incident. Some are workflows no one is watching, some are compliance work that quietly expires, and some are documentation that never matches operations.
Your compliance expired the day after your last assessment.
Every new hire, departed employee, vendor change, or workflow shift moves your risk surface. An annual assessment captures one frame of a year-long movie.
4+ compliance-relevant changes per month go undocumented in the average practice
Annual assessments ignore 364 days of exposure. Patient Protect runs daily.
Compliance documentation tells you what to do. Patient Protect does it.
The moment
Documentation says
Patient Protect does
The moment
01A login from an unrecognized device.
Documentation says
Restrict access to authorized devices.
Patient Protect does
01Triggers MFA challenge.
02Captures device fingerprint.
03Notifies the security officer.
The moment
02A vendor's BAA expires.
Documentation says
Maintain current BAAs.
Patient Protect does
01Flags expiry 60 days out.
02Gates ePHI on day one.
The moment
03New hire gets full admin.
Documentation says
Apply minimum necessary access.
Patient Protect does
01Provisions role-based access on login.
The moment
04Workflow drifts mid-quarter.
Documentation says
Reassess annually.
Patient Protect does
01Detects the change.
02Logs it.
03Notifies the security officer.
You're 70% covered before you write a single policy.
Most HIPAA platforms hand you a blank slate and a checklist. Patient Protect's architecture enforces ~25 requirements the moment you sign up. One hour of guided setup brings you to ~53 of 75 — roughly 70% — before you write your first policy.
The hard work isn't gone. It's just no longer the first thing standing between you and coverage.
See the implementation methodologyBased on internal review of platform architecture and guided onboarding. Full breakdown: 75 distinct HIPAA requirements mapped to platform controls.
Minute zero
~25 / 75
Enforced at minute zero
Architecture alone — no clicks.
First hour
~53 / 75
Covered in your first hour
Guided setup + acknowledgments.
≈ 70% of HIPAA
Use Patient Protect before you pay for it.
Understand your exposure through the public infrastructure. Move into the platform when you are ready to close the gaps and keep them closed.
1Free
See your risk
Take the free assessment and get a real compliance score.
Five minutes. No login required. You will see exactly where your practice stands — and where it does not.
2FreeUnderstand your exposure
Map how patient data moves across your practice.
The ePHI Data Flow Mapper traces every vendor, device, and workflow that touches patient information.
3FreeQuantify the cost
See what a breach would actually cost you.
The Risk Calculator converts practice size, record volume, and operational complexity into dollar exposure.
4PlatformFix it
Move to the platform and close the gaps at the system level.
Secure messaging, access management, audit trails, training, and daily compliance tasks — all in one place.
5PlatformStay protected
Continuous monitoring keeps compliance current as the office changes.
Live scoring, daily diagnostics, breach intelligence, and automated task generation keep you ahead of drift.
Evaluating HIPAA compliance platforms?
Ask these ten questions before trusting a vendor with your practice.
A structured evaluation framework for prospects in active vendor selection — including compare-directly pages for named competitors.
One operating system for the full condition of the practice.
Twenty operational workflows across five connected systems bring compliance, security, workforce activity, vendor oversight, evidence, and patient-data movement into one operating environment. Workforce training alone covers 80+ sessions.
Your SRA generates your risk queue. Your risk queue gates your BAAs. Your BAAs control your messaging. Your messaging generates your audit trail. Your audit trail feeds your next SRA. Compliance, as a closed loop.
SystemDefenseOperationsNetworkIntelligence
Watch the platform tour — 5 min
Compliance is not the document. It is the condition of the practice.
Patient Protect shows what is complete, what remains exposed, who owns the next action, and what the practice can produce when evidence is required.
Change the state
Assign, remediate, and keep recurring work moving.
Every finding gets an owner, a deadline, and a workflow. Recurring compliance work runs on schedule instead of surfacing during an audit.
Prove the state
Produce evidence when it is asked for.
Training records, acknowledgments, vendor documentation, risk decisions, access activity, and completed remediation — preserved as the record OCR would request.
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Exactly what small clinics like ours need to stay safe without hiring an IT team.
Dr. Thomas E MurrayD.D.S. · Patient Protect Member Since 2017
We released a public HIPAA infrastructure layer.
21 production-grade resources across 10 compliance and security disciplines — tools, training, research, public datasets, open source, an iOS app, a Chrome extension. The public knowledge layer most HIPAA vendors do not publish.
Read the announcement →Free · No login · CC BY 4.0 / MIT
We did not start by asking practices to trust another platform. We started by building the tools, datasets, guides, apps, and research we believed should already exist.
The free layer helps practices see the problem clearly. The Patient Protect platform helps them run the system required to solve it — continuous monitoring, BAA tracking, audit-log review, training enforcement, incident response. Most practices need both.
Patient Protect starts at $39/month for independent practices, with no long-term contract.
Free
AI
Ask PIPAA
An AI HIPAA compliance assistant that answers your questions about the Security Rule, Privacy Rule, breach response, risk analysis, and more — free, instant, no login required.
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FreeDiagnostics
HIPAA Readiness Scan
See what an OCR investigator would see when they look at your practice website. Checks for tracking pixels, security gaps, email vulnerabilities, and missing HIPAA documents — in 30 seconds.
Open tool
FreeAssessment
Unified Risk Assessment
A comprehensive HIPAA risk analysis combining compliance readiness, entity classification, practice profile, and ePHI data flow into a single risk score.
Open tool
FreeAssessment
HIPAA Self-Assessment
A seven-question readiness check with action-oriented guidance and clear next steps.
Open tool
FreeGovernance
Entity Determination Tool
Determine whether you operate as a covered entity, business associate, hybrid entity, or vendor.
Open tool
FreeVisibility
ePHI Data Flow Mapper
Map how patient data moves across vendors, devices, staff, and systems before something leaks.
Open tool
Free iOS App
Download on the App StorePatient Protect Signal
Breach alerts, compliance tools, and risk intelligence — in your pocket. Free, no account required.
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Secure Care Research Institute
The evidence base behind everything we build.
SSRN
The Economics of ePHI Exposure
Long-tail breach economics for healthcare organizations, with emphasis on the compounding cost structure that hits small practices hardest.
Read on SSRNSSRN
The Cyber-Economic Stack
Research referenced throughout the site’s AI-risk argument, focused on how healthcare data becomes a financialized attack asset.
Read on SSRNSix questions we get a lot.
01
What is Patient Protect?
Patient Protect is a security-first HIPAA compliance platform built for independent healthcare providers. It provides automated security risk assessments, real-time threat monitoring, policy management, staff training, and secure communication tools — without enterprise pricing or complexity.
02
How much does Patient Protect cost?
Patient Protect offers two plans: Core at $39/month for essential SaaS compliance, and Pro at $99/month for complete operational visibility including advanced monitoring, training, and secure messaging. Both include a 14-day free trial (credit card required for identity verification — no charge until trial ends). A free risk assessment is also available with no account required.
03
Who is Patient Protect designed for?
Independent healthcare providers including dental practices, medical offices, behavioral health and therapy practices, chiropractic offices, physical therapy centers, optometry practices, and dermatology clinics. It is not designed for large hospital systems or enterprise organizations with dedicated IT departments.
04
Does Patient Protect help with the HIPAA Security Risk Assessment?
Yes. Patient Protect includes an automated Security Risk Assessment (SRA) tool mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It identifies vulnerabilities, scores risk, and generates documentation required by the HIPAA Security Rule.
05
What free HIPAA tools does Patient Protect offer?
Several free tools with no login required: a real-time HIPAA Breach Dashboard tracking all OCR-reported U.S. breaches, an abbreviated HIPAA Risk Assessment, a comprehensive HIPAA Compliance Roadmap and Checklist, an ePHI Flow Risk Mapper, and a HIPAA Risk Calculator.
06
How is Patient Protect different from other HIPAA compliance platforms?
Patient Protect provides continuous real-time security monitoring and active breach prevention. Most compliance platforms focus primarily on generating documentation and policies. Patient Protect starts at $39–$99/month with no contracts — built specifically for independent practices.
A completed checklist is not a controlled environment.
See where your practice stands today. Then use Patient Protect to close the gaps and keep them closed. Plans start at $39/month. The 14-day free trial requires a credit card for verification — no charge until it ends.