If your software touches ePHI on behalf of healthcare customers, you're almost certainly a business associate under HIPAA - directly liable for the Security Rule. And your healthcare buyers increasingly want SOC 2 on top of HIPAA. The efficient path covers both from one monitored environment.
Book a 15-minute review →When SaaS becomes a business associate: if your platform creates, receives, stores, or transmits ePHI for a covered entity or another business associate, you're in scope - and directly liable. Many health-tech founders underestimate this, assuming HIPAA is only their customer's problem. It isn't.
What buyers actually ask for: a signed BAA, evidence of your Security Rule safeguards, and increasingly a SOC 2 report - because SOC 2's Trust Services Criteria overlap heavily with the technical safeguards HIPAA requires. Meeting both is less work than it sounds, because the underlying controls are shared.
The build-once advantage: encryption, access controls, monitoring, and audit logging satisfy both HIPAA's technical safeguards and SOC 2's Common Criteria. One well-instrumented environment produces evidence for both, so the second framework is far cheaper than the first.
MDRwatchdog maps one monitored environment to both HIPAA safeguards and SOC 2 criteria, producing the evidence and control record health-tech buyers demand - so you clear the BAA and the security review together. Readiness and evidence; SOC 2 reports come from a CPA firm, and HIPAA has no certification. Not legal advice.
If your platform creates, receives, stores, or transmits ePHI for a covered entity or another business associate, yes - and you're directly liable under the Security Rule, not just contractually.
Increasingly both. SOC 2's Trust Services Criteria overlap heavily with HIPAA's technical safeguards, so buyers often ask for a BAA plus a SOC 2 report.
Yes. Encryption, access controls, monitoring, and audit logging satisfy both HIPAA safeguards and SOC 2 criteria, so one monitored environment feeds both.
MDRwatchdog provides security monitoring and compliance evidence to support readiness. It is not a certification and not legal advice. Certification and formal audits are performed by the appropriate authorized bodies (a C3PAO for CMMC, a licensed CPA firm for SOC 2, an accredited body for ISO 27001).