HIPAA Compliance for Hospitals: Secure, Compliant Website Hosting for Clinics and Hospitals
Convesio’s cutting-edge security infrastructure makes it an excellent choice for clinics, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and other medical entities that need to build a HIPAA-compliant website.
Unlike other WordPress hosts, we use Docker containers on a private cloud, which are isolated, secure, private by design.
HIPAA Compliance
What is HIPAA Compliance?
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, mandates that businesses handling electronic protected health information, such as covered entities including healthcare providers, insurance companies, and clearinghouses, must adhere to stringent safeguards when handling certain types of data. The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards for protecting patient information, setting limits on access and use of Protected Health Information (PHI).
A HIPAA-compliant website, then, is one that follows these rules. Failure to do so can result in significant damage to your reputation and legal penalties, including fines.
Clinics and hospitals, entrusted with sensitive health information during their patient care, are required to strictly observe HIPAA guidelines to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of their patients’ data. Adherence to these standards is critical in preserving the trust between patients and hospitals while also avoiding the legal and financial penalties associated with non-compliance.
Does Convesio Issue a BAA?
Yes, Convesio issues Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with our clients, ensuring that data remains secure at every step of the process. Business associates play a crucial role in handling protected health information (PHI) and ensuring HIPAA compliance by implementing appropriate safeguards and adhering to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the HIPAA Security Rule, and other relevant guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). BAAs are a must for being HIPAA-compliant.
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HIPAA Security Rule Features
HIPAA Compliant WordPress + Managed Updates
With thousands of themes and plugins available, WordPress is the best choice for hospitals looking to create a HIPAA compliant website.
While there are hundreds of WordPress hosting companies available, most of them are aimed at lower-budget organizations that care less about security. As you can imagine, that’s a serious issue for any clinic or hospital that needs their website to be HIPAA compliant.
Don’t worry – that’s where Convesio comes in.
Unlike most other hosts, we include a number of security features by default, without any extra charges. These work around the clock to prevent malware and bots that can compromise your WordPress or WooCommerce website. Other hosting providers either charge extra for more security features or don’t include them at all.
Convesio implements technical safeguards to ensure the security and integrity of electronic protected health information (ePHI). This includes access control, encryption, integrity controls, disaster recovery, and network or transmission security to protect against unauthorized access to ePHI.
Most importantly, Convesio utilizes an innovative technology called Docker containers. As the name suggests, containers are separate installations of your website that are spun up if you need more performance.
The result is that your site is entire isolated and has isolated and dedicated resources. Your database, RAM, memory, CPU, and so on are dedicated – and not able to be affected by other sites on the server cluster.
More Secure than VPS or Dedicated Hosting
Each Convesio site is deployed on its own fully isolated container. This is unlike other WordPress hosting providers, where a compromised WordPress website on the same server can infect yours.
Encryption in Transit
When a user enters personal medical information on your hospital’s website, that data is encrypted at every step, from the user’s browser to our platform.
Encryption at Rest
Our secure form implementation ensures that personal data is encrypted in the WordPress database without causing performance issues.
Offsite Backups
We store our backups offsite on Amazon S3, adding an extra level of redundancy.
Physical Data Center Security
Learn more about our infrastructural security, which includes ballistic glass, fire suppression, biometric readers, 24×7 on-site security staff, and more.
Audit Logging
Keep track of who logs in to your website and accesses sensitive data with detailed audit logs. The HIPAA Security Rule requires maintaining detailed audit logs to track access to sensitive data, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI).
Our Promise
Security is Our Utmost Priority
With Convesio, security is not an extra paid service. Unlike other WordPress hosting providers, we don’t tell our customers, “Sorry, we can’t help.” We work hard to keep your medical website secure and if there’s a problem, we’ll solve it. Adhering to HIPAA regulations is crucial to avoid penalties and ensure the protection of patient information.
WordPress security is at the core of what we do.
Starting with our infrastructure: our stack is protected by industry-leading applications and complemented by a suite of specialist WordPress solutions. Other web hosting providers tend to skimp on serious infrastructure and instead choose the absolute cheapest option. As you can imagine, this is why many WordPress hosting companies have a poor record for security.
We also work with our customers to implement and configure security plugins for the front-end such as WordFence or WebARX. We can also work with you to implement your own security features and preferences.
This provides a robust security layer – but our commitment doesn’t stop there. We monitor customer websites 24/7.
Get Help via Slack
Hands-on help is a key element of our support strategy. Get real-time help from professional engineers, not customer service salespeople – all via Slack or email.
Full Control Over Your Site
It's Your Site – We're Just Here to Help
Many other hosts catering to clinics and hospitals don’t give you total access to your website. HIPAA Vault, for example, prevents you from directly managing users, adding/removing themes, adding/removing plugins, and keeping your site updated. Other hosts are similar.
Convesio, on the other hand, gives you total access to your site, without restrictions. After all, it’s your business! And yet, your site will be just as secure. This is possible because of our Docker-based infrastructure, which allows for high levels of security directly at the server level.
HIPAA Privacy Rule Compliance Auditing
When we onboard your site, we do a compliance audit to ensure that everything is set up correctly.
Encryption Setup
As a part of the onboarding process, we set up form encryption, database encryption, and in-transit encryption to ensure that all data is secure.
Continual Monitoring
Our monthly update process consistently ensures that your site remains HIPAA compliant. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule outlines specific protocols that must be followed by covered entities and business associates in the event of a data breach, including requirements for reporting breaches affecting different numbers of individuals, the timelines for notification, and the potential consequences and fines for violations of the rule.
Cloudflare + Monarx
Extra Security Features
Unlike most other hosts, we include a Cloudflare Enterprise plan on every Convesio-hosted site for free – a $500 value. Cloudflare is a must-have for any eCommerce / WooCommerce website that experiences high amounts of traffic and wants to maintain high security levels. We also utilize Monarx, a cutting-edge industry leader, for automatic malware protection.
Enterprise DDOS Protection + Firewall
Enterprise-level DDOS protection from Cloudflare, an industry leader in network security.
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
Our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your site from attackers around the clock.
Malware Protection with Monarx
Monarx delivers automatic malware protection for your website, ensuring that any potential threats are eliminated ahead of time. Preventing data breaches is crucial, as failure to comply with HIPAA regulations can result in substantial fines and other severe consequences.
Try Convesio
Top-Notch Support for Clinics and Hospitals
Either in-app or via Slack, our team of experts are just a few clicks away. With response times usually under 5 minutes, we jump in and fix any problems right away.
- 7-day free trial
- Free white glove migration
- No downtime or data loss
FAQs
Convesio HIPAA-Compliant WordPress Hosting for Clinics and Hospitals
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, mandates that businesses handling electronic protected health information must adhere to stringent safeguards when handling certain types of data.
A HIPAA-compliant website, then, is one that follows these rules. Failure to follow HIPAA compliance rules can result in fines and damage to your business’s reputation.
Yes, Convesio offers HIPAA-compliant website hosting services.
Yes, Convesio issues Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with our clients, ensuring that data remains secure at every step of the process. BAAs are a must for being HIPAA-compliant.
We use Monarx, which delivers automatic malware protection for your website, ensuring that any potential threats are eliminated ahead of time.
Yes, our control panel and dashboard implement MFA.
Yes, we utilize database encryption to ensure the security and privacy of sensitive patient data. It is specially designed to store and manage client data while ensuring protection from unauthorized access, theft, or loss.
Our database is designed to meet the HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) compliance requirements.
The encryption level used in most industry-standard products is already up-to-date and sufficiently secure. As such, if you are using any SaaS-based product, you do not need to worry about the level of encryption as it is 128-bit.
The Convesio Security page explains our multi-layered approach to network security.
We work with site owners to determine the best course of action to maintain HIPAA compliance of the ePHI in their site. This can be a combination of various solutions:
- Encrypted Forms
- 3rd Party Forms that are HIPAA compliant
- HIPAA compliant Email Services
- HIPAA compliant CRM integrations
Data is SHA and salt encrypted at rest and transit.
