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Getting started

60 minutes.
45 requirements.

Most practices spend months trying to figure out HIPAA compliance. Here is what happens in your first hour on Patient Protect — every requirement, every citation, every control.

~25

By architecture

~20

By acknowledgment

<60

Minutes total

Without Patient Protect

  • Hire a consultant ($5,000–$25,000/year)
  • Weeks of questionnaires before coverage starts
  • Manual policy creation, manual tracking
  • No real-time visibility between annual reviews

With Patient Protect

  • ~25 requirements satisfied at signup — before you click
  • ~45 requirements covered in under 60 minutes
  • Policies auto-generated, BAAs tracked, training assigned
  • Live compliance score — current to this moment

Your first hour

Watch your compliance standing build in real time.

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Patient Protect dashboard showing compliance scores active from minute zero
Minute 0~25 requirements

Architecture does the work

The moment your account exists, these are already enforced: AES-256-GCM encryption, role-based access control, audit logging, session management, brute-force prevention, intrusion detection, TLS 1.3 in transit. You didn't configure any of it.

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Patient Protect role assignment showing Security Officer and Privacy Officer designation
Minutes 1–10+6 requirements

Guided setup

Enter your practice info, designate Security and Privacy Officers, sign your BAA, enable MFA. The system walks you through each one — no guesswork, no manuals.

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Patient Protect workforce compliance showing timestamped acknowledgment records per staff member
Minutes 10–30+20 requirements

Acknowledgments become documentation

20 guided acknowledgments — each covering a distinct HIPAA requirement. "I understand our breach reporting procedures." "I confirm my workstation prevents unauthorized viewing." Each one creates a timestamped, audit-ready record. When OCR asks "have your staff been trained?" — you pull these records with dates.

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Patient Protect compliance queue showing prioritized HIPAA tasks auto-generated from risk profile
Minutes 30–60~45 total

Your compliance engine is running

Your compliance queue is populated. Your first training module is assigned. Your risk score is live. The remaining work — risk assessment, 48 policies, physical security audits — builds through daily 5-minute sessions guided by the Compliance Advice engine.

Why your score starts at 20–30%

By design.Your compliance score is weighted toward the hardest items — the risk assessment, 48 policies, physical security audits. Architecture handles the volume (~25 requirements). Acknowledgments handle the next tier (~20). The score measures the remaining deep work, not how far you've come. Daily 5-minute sessions in the Compliance Advice queue build your score steadily.

Security
85%
Setup
30%
Compliance
15%

The full map

Every HIPAA requirement Patient Protect addresses — and exactly how.

Not marketing language. Specific HIPAA Security Rule, Privacy Rule, and Breach Notification Rule citations mapped to the platform controls that satisfy them.

1

Satisfied by architecture

25 requirements · live at signup
2

Satisfied by guided acknowledgment

23 requirements · minutes to complete

Each acknowledgment creates a timestamped, user-identified record. That record isthe compliance documentation — when an auditor asks “have your workforce members been trained?” you pull these records with dates.

3

Active platform defense

6 controls · always on

48 requirements + 6 defense controls

Covered before you write a single policy or complete a risk assessment

After the first hour

What you see every day.

The first hour gets you to ~70% coverage. The daily workflow — 5 minutes at a time — builds the rest. Here is what that looks like.

Patient Protect compliance advice queue

Compliance Advice

Your daily task queue — prioritized by impact, tied to specific HIPAA citations. 5 minutes a day builds audit-ready evidence.

Patient Protect security threats geographic map

Threat Intelligence

Nightly HHS OCR breach data, state-level enforcement, attack vector trending. Know what's hitting practices like yours.

Patient Protect real-time compliance scoring dashboard

Live Compliance Score

Three-category scoring that updates the moment a risk closes or a gap opens. Your standing is always current.

Patient Protect BAA-gated secure messaging

Secure Messaging

BAA-gated patient communication built into the platform. Non-BAA offices get content masked automatically.

Patient Protect is intuitive, proactive, and affordable — exactly what small clinics like ours need to keep patient data safe and stay on the right side of HIPAA.
Dr. Thomas E Murray, D.D.S.Patient Protect Member Since 2017

Your first 25 requirements are already waiting

Start your free trial. See your compliance score in 10 minutes.

14-day free trial. Full platform access. Whether you already work with a compliance vendor or are starting fresh, Patient Protect adds the security-first layer from minute one.