The Gap Between a HIPAA Breach and the Real World
Let’s get real for a second.
If your product experienced a HIPAA breach tomorrow, would your team know what to do?
Would they act or scramble?
Who runs point?
Is there an actual plan or just a PDF buried in your Google Drive?
Do your engineers know what qualifies as a “reportable” HIPAA breach?
Does your leadership team know who needs to be notified and how fast?
If you had to pause even for a second, that’s your answer.
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It’s designed to help health tech teams like yours close the gaps before they become real problems.
Most Scaling Health Tech Companies Aren’t Ready
And it’s not because they don’t care.
It’s because security lives in the gaps between product, engineering, and compliance.
Ownership of breach response is vague.
Plans are untested.
And when something goes wrong, decisions get made under pressure.
That’s when costly mistakes happen and trust breaks.
Under HIPAA, you’ve got 60 days to notify affected parties and HHS.
But your customers?
Your partners?
They expect answers in hours.
Not weeks.
A Simple HIPAA Incident Response Framework
You don’t need a million-dollar program.
You just need something real.
Something practiced.
Here’s a quick-start framework we’ve seen work for growing health tech teams:
✅ Identify
Assign a clear incident response lead.
Not “the security team.”
A real name.
Someone who owns the timeline, the updates, and the decisions.
✅ Contain
Define your first 5 moves:
Capture logs
Disable access
Lock down affected systems
Snapshot data
Isolate the blast radius
Containment is clarity under pressure.
✅ Notify
Know your timelines for HIPAA and beyond:
60 days to notify under federal law
But clients may expect notice in 24 hours (or less)
Define how and who delivers those messages now not during a crisis.
✅ Document
Maintain a timeline of what happened, what was done, and when.
This becomes your:
Audit trail
Legal defense
Internal postmortem
Reputation insurance
It doesn’t have to be perfect.
But it does have to be practiced.
Don’t wait for an incident to expose the cracks.
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Security Can’t Stay Reactive as You Scale
You’re not a scrappy startup anymore.
Your policies, your tech stack, and your workflows have to evolve.
Compliance might win deals.
But resilience protects the company.
HIPAA isn’t just about checking boxes.
It’s about building a business that can survive under scrutiny.
A Resource for Health Tech Teams Without a Full-Time Security Lead
If you’re leading a health tech company with 10–50 employees, you’ve outgrown winging it.
And if your CTO or dev team is still carrying HIPAA compliance on the side?
This guide is for you.
I built the HIPAA Exposure Guide for teams like yours.
👉 Download it here it’s free, and built to help you:
Spot hidden gaps in your HIPAA program
Prioritize the security controls that actually matter as you grow
Prepare your team to respond with confidence when not if things go sideways
