$9.8M
What your practice is liable for when compliance is documentation, not infrastructure.
Most practices running compliance software will still get fined. Because compliance software documents what happened. Patient Protect prevents it.
Compliance software got your practice ready for an audit. Patient Protect gets your practice ready for a breach.
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The breach surface
Small practices carry hospital-grade obligations without hospital-grade staffing, tooling, or visibility. That gap compounds every day it goes unaddressed.
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Where patient data leaks
Breaches start in the gaps practices have never mapped — staff workflows, vendor relationships, and communication habits that no one is watching.
Hidden data paths
Staff inboxes, personal phones, unvetted SaaS vendors, paper intake forms, fax machines. Each one creates a separate HIPAA violation. Attackers have already mapped them.
Every one of those channels is a violation in progress. Patient Protect maps them all before OCR does.
Invisible drift
Every new hire, departed employee, vendor update, or changed workflow shifts your risk surface. Annual assessments capture one frame of a year-long movie.
The platform that only assesses you annually is ignoring 364 days of exposure. Patient Protect runs daily.
False confidence
OCR asks for proof your staff followed the policy — access logs, training records, incident response timelines. The gap between paperwork and operations is where fines live.
The binder is not the problem. The gap between the binder and what your staff actually does is. Patient Protect closes that gap.
The real difference
What compliance platforms do
† Compliancy Group Foundation plan, billed annually.
What that misses
What Patient Protect does
First-hour coverage
The moment you sign up, Patient Protect's architecture enforces ~25 HIPAA requirements automatically. Within your first hour, guided setup and acknowledgments bring that to ~53 of 75 distinct requirements — approximately 70% — before the heavy compliance work begins.
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HIPAA requirements covered
in your first 60 minutes
~25
Requirements at minute zero
architecture alone — no clicks
The gap explained: Your compliance score reads 20–30% because it's weighted toward difficult items (risk assessment, 48 policies, physical security). But your requirement coverage is high because architecture + acknowledgments handle the majority with minimal effort.
How it works
Steps 1–3 are free tools on this website — no login, no credit card. Steps 4–5 are what happens when you move to the Patient Protect platform.
See your risk
Five minutes. No login required. You will see exactly where your practice stands — and where it does not.
2FreeUnderstand your exposure
The ePHI Data Flow Mapper traces every vendor, device, and workflow that touches patient information.
3FreeQuantify the cost
The Risk Calculator converts practice size, record volume, and operational complexity into dollar exposure.
4PlatformFix it
Secure messaging, access management, audit trails, training, and daily compliance tasks — all in one place.
5PlatformStay protected
Live scoring, daily diagnostics, breach intelligence, and automated task generation keep you ahead of drift.
The gap
Here is how the major HIPAA compliance platforms compare on what actually matters — visibility, controls, and pricing.
| RecommendedPatient Protect$39/ month to start | Compliancy Group$99+/mo | AccountableHQ$149–749/mo | Abyde~$118/mo | Total HIPAANot listed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Compliance | |||||
| Risk AssessmentSatisfies §164.308(a)(1) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Policy TemplatesVersioned, workforce acknowledgment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Staff TrainingDelivery, tracking, and documentation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BAA ManagementFull lifecycle, e-sign, PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Where Others Stop | |||||
| Secure MessagingBAA-gated, ePHI-compliant | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Digital ReferralsSend, track, and audit across offices | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Real-Time Security PromptsLive alerts for risks and violations | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Live DiagnosticsReal-time compliance visibility | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| ePHI Audit TrailWho accessed what, and when | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Risk ScoringAuto-prioritized, self-updating queue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ~ |
| Monthly Price | $39to start | $99+ | $149–749 | $118 | Not listed |
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Based on publicly available feature lists and pricing as of 2026. Secure messaging and digital referrals absent from every major compliance competitor.
Secure messaging and digital referrals are absent from every major competitor because they require building a clinical workflow layer, not just a compliance dashboard. Most chose not to.
What's included
Every compliance function your practice needs — risk intelligence, secure messaging, workforce training, breach monitoring, and audit trails — built into a single connected platform.
The system works as a loop. Your SRA generates your risk queue. Your risk queue gates your BAAs. Your BAAs control your messaging. Your messaging generates your audit trail. Your audit trail feeds your next SRA. Nothing is manual. Nothing is siloed. That's the difference.
What practitioners say
Patient Protect is intuitive, proactive, and affordable — exactly what small clinics like ours need to stay safe without hiring an IT team. It's a game changer for independent healthcare providers.
We trust Patient Protect to manage all aspects of patient communication and security. Patient Protect has made a lot of front-office tasks more efficient!
Patient Protect ensures the utmost security and compliance with patient records, and it's really opened our eyes to previous security vulnerabilities.
$1.5M
Maximum OCR penalty per violation category per year
The evidence
What an audit would find
OCR checks whether your staff follows the policies in the binder. Patient Protect tracks the operational behaviors that actually get audited.
Common failures we fix
These are the four most common HIPAA violations in independent practices. The platform addresses each one with automated workflows and continuous monitoring.
Before and after
The shift is operational: continuous scoring replaces annual guesswork, audit trails replace memory, and daily tasks replace quarterly panic.
Free tools & resources
These tools will show you exactly where your practice is exposed. Some of what you find will be uncomfortable. That's the point.
Independent practices should not need a costly subscription to understand their own risk. Every tool in this section is genuinely free — no login, no credit card, no trial timer.
Other platforms charge $99 to $599 per month for comparable capabilities. We offer them freely because access to compliance intelligence should not depend on your budget.
When you are ready for the full platform — continuous monitoring, automated evidence collection, secure messaging, and everything else — Patient Protect starts at $39/month.
Assessment
A comprehensive HIPAA risk analysis combining compliance readiness, entity classification, practice profile, and ePHI data flow into a single risk score.
Assessment
A seven-question readiness check with action-oriented guidance and clear next steps.
Governance
Determine whether you operate as a covered entity, business associate, hybrid entity, or vendor.
Visibility
Map how patient data moves across vendors, devices, staff, and systems before something leaks.
Operations
A step-by-step operational checklist designed to replace checkbox guidance with real work.
Infrastructure
A technical baseline for hardening storage, devices, networks, and recovery readiness.
From the blog
Most compliance platforms hand you a questionnaire and wish you luck. Patient Protect covers ~70% of HIPAA requirements before you write a single policy. Here's the minute-by-minute breakdown.
Secure Care Research Institute
SSRN
Long-tail breach economics for healthcare organizations, with emphasis on the compounding cost structure that hits small practices hardest.
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Research referenced throughout the site’s AI-risk argument, focused on how healthcare data becomes a financialized attack asset.
Read on SSRN →Common questions
Patient Protect is a security-first HIPAA compliance platform built for independent healthcare providers. It provides automated security risk assessments, real-time threat monitoring, policy management, staff training, and secure communication tools — without enterprise pricing or complexity.
Patient Protect offers two plans: Core at $39/month for essential SaaS compliance, and Pro at $99/month for complete operational visibility including advanced monitoring, training, and secure messaging. Both include a 14-day free trial (credit card required for identity verification — no charge until trial ends). A free risk assessment is also available with no account required.
Independent healthcare providers including dental practices, medical offices, behavioral health and therapy practices, chiropractic offices, physical therapy centers, optometry practices, and dermatology clinics. It is not designed for large hospital systems or enterprise organizations with dedicated IT departments.
Yes. Patient Protect includes an automated Security Risk Assessment (SRA) tool mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It identifies vulnerabilities, scores risk, and generates documentation required by the HIPAA Security Rule.
Several free tools with no login required: a real-time HIPAA Breach Dashboard tracking all OCR-reported U.S. breaches, an abbreviated HIPAA Risk Assessment, a comprehensive HIPAA Compliance Roadmap and Checklist, an ePHI Flow Risk Mapper, and a HIPAA Risk Calculator.
Patient Protect provides continuous real-time security monitoring and active breach prevention. Most compliance platforms focus primarily on generating documentation and policies. Patient Protect starts at $39–$99/month with no contracts — built specifically for independent practices.
Next step
14-day free trial — credit card required for verification, no charge until trial ends. Or start with a free risk assessment, no account needed.
