Secure, HIPAA Compliant WordPress Hosting for Healthcare Professionals
Convesio’s cutting-edge security infrastructure makes it an excellent choice for WordPress and WooCommerce sites that need HIPAA compliant hosting to ensure the protection of PHI and maintain regulatory compliance.
Unlike other WordPress hosts, we use Docker containers on a private cloud, which are isolated, secure, and 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 must adhere to stringent safeguards when handling certain types of data.
A HIPAA-compliant website, then, is one that follows these rules set forth by HIPAA regulations. Failure to do so can result in significant damage to your reputation and legal penalties, including fines.
As such, any business handling sensitive medical data should ensure that they are using a HIPAA-compliant host.
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. BAAs are a must for being HIPAA-compliant.
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Security Features
HIPAA Compliant WordPress Hosting + Managed Updates
With thousands of themes and plugins available, WordPress is the best choice for any business looking to create a beautiful 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 healthcare provider 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.
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, making it a HIPAA compliant hosting provider. 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 a medical site, that data is encrypted at every step, from the user’s browser to our platform, as part of our HIPAA-compliant services.
Encryption at Rest
Our secure form implementation ensures that personal data is encrypted in the WordPress database without causing performance issues, aligning with the standards of HIPAA-compliant web hosting.
Offsite Backups
We store our backups offsite on Amazon S3, adding an extra level of redundancy as part of our HIPAA compliant hosting services.
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, as required by the HIPAA Security Rule.
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 site secure and if there’s a problem, we’ll solve it.
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 to ensure compliance with HIPAA guidelines, protecting patients’ confidential information and avoiding penalties for non-compliance.
Get Help via Slack
Hands-on help from a reliable service provider 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 healthcare professionals 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.
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.
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.
Try Convesio
Top-Notch Support for Healthcare Businesses
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
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.
The correct spelling is HIPAA, not HIPPA. HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law enacted in 1996. This law sets standards for the protection and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
Yes, Convesio offers HIPAA-compliant website hosting services.
It depends – and it’s complicated. Read our full guide to the topic.
Yes – give our HIPAA checklist article a read.
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.
