HIPAA for SaaS & Health Tech Vendors
Stats About the Course
- Over 9,000 users HIPAA certified
- Complete this HIPAA course online, anytime, anywhere in about 30 minutes
- Take the HIPAA exam and earn a passing score of 80% or higher
- Receive a HIPAA certificate of completion immediately
- Individual and Group accounts
- Bulk pricing available
Overview
The HIPAA for SaaS & Health Tech Vendors course is built for product, engineering, security, support, and GTM teams who build or operate software that touches patient data. Unlike general HIPAA training, this course translates HIPAA’s Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules into practical product choices, everyday team habits, and defensible evidence your customers will expect. You’ll learn where PHI shows up in software (apps, logs, support tools, analytics, backups), how to apply Minimum Necessary, and how to design AI features that respect HIPAA from day one.
Course Content
Introduction to HIPAA for Vendors
Why HIPAA applies to software companies; Covered Entities vs Business Associates; BAAs and shared responsibilities.
What is PHI in Software?
Identifiable + health context; where PHI hides (UI/APIs, logs/traces, support tools, analytics/BI, backups/exports); de-identification basics.
Baseline HIPAA Requirements (Vendor Lens)
Access control and least privilege, MFA, encryption in transit/at rest with key ownership, PHI-safe logging and audit trails, restore-tested backups, simple change trail, device hygiene, vendor/subprocessor oversight, usable policies, and a short incident plan.
Handling PHI in Apps & Digital Communication
Email/chat guardrails, ticket hygiene, screen-share prep, attachments/exports with retention, and “verify → minimize → secure → record.”
Patients’ Rights
Straightforward exports, corrections with history, human-readable audit trails, identity verification support, preferences, timelines, and delivery/expiration.
HIPAA Violations and Data Breaches
PHI in logs, misdirected email, public buckets, overbroad support access, analytics drift, lost devices, staging with prod data, wrong channel posts, API key leak—what to do and what to say.
AI and HIPAA Compliance
Minimize prompts, enforce tenant/purpose boundaries, vet vendors (no training on your data, regional processing, BAA), PHI-safe logging, clear disclosures, constrained generation, human-in-the-loop, prompt hygiene and injection defense, storage decisions, rollout gates, fine-tuning safeguards, evaluation metrics, and operational discipline.
Why Take This Course?
✅ Built for software teams — turns HIPAA into product patterns, playbooks, and defaults your org can ship.
✅ Actionable and practical — checklists for access/MFA/encryption/logging, ticket/exports hygiene, and incident paths that calm the chaos.
✅ Covers the real surfaces — UI/APIs, logs, support tools, analytics, backups, and AI features.
✅ Customer-ready evidence — starter pack: data-flow diagram, prod access roster, encryption note, log-redaction config, two-line incident plan.
✅ AI done safely — vendor due diligence, prompt redaction, validation, and rollout gates you can prove.
Who should take this course?
Product managers, engineers, QA, security/DevOps, support & success, and sales/legal teams working with BAAs at SaaS and health-tech vendors that create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI for healthcare customers.