HIPAA-Compliant Software & Portal Development in Pittsburgh
What Pittsburgh healthcare organizations need from software partners building patient portals and apps that handle PHI. General guidance, not legal advice.
Pittsburgh is one of the country's biggest healthcare economies. Any software that touches protected health information needs to be built with HIPAA in mind from the first line of code.
Business Associate Agreements
Your development partner and every vendor that stores or processes PHI — hosting, email, analytics — should sign a BAA.
Technical safeguards
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, audit logging and automatic session timeouts.
Analytics caution
Standard tracking pixels on authenticated or appointment pages can leak PHI; choose compliant analytics setups.
Process matters too
Risk assessments, access reviews and incident response plans are part of compliance, not just code.
- Get BAAs from every PHI vendor
- Encrypt and log everything
- Be careful with tracking pixels
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