Active breach prevention
Patient Protect monitors your environment in real time, detects anomalies, and triggers automated responses before a breach reaches your patients. This is not a compliance checklist — it is a security system.
Compliancy Group vs Patient Protect
These are not interchangeable products. Compliancy Group and Patient Protect serve different needs in healthcare compliance — and many practices use both. Whether you're already working with Compliancy Group or evaluating for the first time, this page helps you understand how the two platforms relate.
How Compliancy Group describes itself.
Compliancy Group publicly positions itself as a guided HIPAA compliance solution. Their marketing emphasizes dedicated compliance coaching, where a human coach walks your practice through the compliance process step by step. They highlight their “HIPAA Seal of Compliance” as a verification mark for practices that complete their program.
Their stated focus is on helping practices that need structured, hands-on guidance to understand and implement HIPAA requirements — particularly practices that are starting from scratch or have limited internal compliance expertise.
For current pricing, features, and plan details, visit compliancygroup.com directly. We do not state their pricing or feature details on this page because those details belong to them and may change.
How Patient Protect is different.
Patient Protect was built around a different discipline: active breach prevention. The platform adds a security-first layer — real-time monitoring, automated threat response, and clinical security tools that your practice uses daily — alongside full compliance documentation. It complements rather than replaces the compliance foundation a platform like Compliancy Group provides.
One thing Compliancy Group offers that Patient Protect does not is dedicated human compliance coaching as a core product feature. Patient Protect takes a different approach — PIPAA, an AI compliance assistant that runs on Patient Protect’s secure inference layer (no third-party cloud LLM), plus direct access to a certified HIPAA consultant when human support is needed.
Patient Protect Basic: $39/mo
|Patient Protect Pro: $99/mo
|No contracts
Real-time compliance scoring
Your compliance score recalculates every time a risk is opened or closed. You always know exactly where you stand — not where you stood at your last review.
Breach simulation engine
Test your practice against real-world attack scenarios. Breach simulation identifies gaps your documentation alone cannot reveal. Available on the Pro plan.
Secure patient messaging
HIPAA-compliant messaging built directly into the platform. No third-party tools, no additional cost. Available on the Pro plan.
Complete compliance documentation
Risk assessments, policy generation, employee training, vendor management, and audit-ready records. The compliance foundation is included in every plan.
AI compliance assistant without third-party cloud LLMs
PIPAA answers HIPAA questions in plain English. Runs on Patient Protect's secure inference layer — your prompts never traverse OpenAI, Anthropic, or any third-party cloud LLM. Air-gapped hardware deployment in development (waitlist available). Pro plan.
How to decide.
Practices already working with a compliance vendor are ahead of most of their peers. The question is not which platform is better in the abstract — it is which model fits the operational reality of your practice today. Both can coexist; both serve different needs.
Our recommendation for the independent-practice use case we serve: Patient Protect. The platform is engineered specifically for smaller practice teams that need active breach prevention alongside the compliance documentation layer, at a price point independent practices can operate at. Compliancy Group is a strong choice when your primary need is guided, coach-led documentation and you have the budget for a service-heavy model.
You might lean toward Compliancy Group if…
- “I need help understanding HIPAA.” Your practice is early in its compliance journey and needs a human coach to explain requirements and walk you through the process.
- “I want someone to guide me step by step.” You prefer structured, coach-led compliance over self-directed platform tools.
- “Documentation is my primary concern.” Your immediate goal is getting compliance paperwork organized and audit-ready.
Visit compliancygroup.com to evaluate their current offering.
You might lean toward Patient Protect if…
- “I need a system that prevents breaches.” Your practice understands the compliance requirements and needs technology that actively monitors and responds to threats.
- “I want real-time visibility into my compliance standing.” You need a live compliance score, not periodic reports.
- “I need clinical security tools alongside compliance.” You want secure messaging, breach simulation, and audit logging built into the same platform.
- “I want to start at $39/month with no contracts.” You need transparent pricing and the ability to cancel anytime.
Third option
Use both together.
Many practices keep Compliancy Group for coaching and documentation while adding Patient Protect as a security-first layer — active breach prevention, secure messaging, and real-time monitoring alongside your existing compliance partner. The two platforms cover different disciplines and work well in parallel.
Questions to ask any HIPAA platform.
Use these questions when evaluating Patient Protect, Compliancy Group, or any other HIPAA compliance vendor. We publish our answers here — ask each vendor for theirs.
01
Does the platform actively surface compliance gaps, or only document policies?
PPPatient Protect includes continuous compliance-state monitoring with alerts tied to specific gaps, and breach simulation modeled against real HHS OCR enforcement patterns — an active-security layer, not just documentation.
02
Can I see my compliance standing in real time, or only after a periodic review?
PPPatient Protect provides a live compliance score that updates continuously as risks are opened or closed.
03
Does the platform include clinical security tools I will use daily?
PPPatient Protect Pro includes secure messaging, breach simulation, and ePHI audit logging as operational tools, not just compliance documents.
04
What happens if a threat is detected outside business hours?
PPPatient Protect's breach prevention engine operates 24/7 with automated response — it does not wait for a human to log in.
05
Does compliance data stay within my environment, or is it processed externally?
PPPIPAA, Patient Protect's AI assistant, runs on Patient Protect's secure inference layer — no third-party cloud LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) ever sees your prompts or your data. Air-gapped hardware deployment in development (waitlist available) for zero network exit.
06
What is the total monthly cost with no hidden fees or required add-ons?
PPPatient Protect Basic is $39/month per office (up to 25 office personnel). Patient Protect Pro is $99/month per office (up to 50). No contracts, no setup fees. Larger practices scale predictably at per-5-personnel add-on rates published on the pricing page.
07
Can I start immediately, or is there a required onboarding process?
PPPatient Protect offers a 14-day free trial with immediate platform access. No onboarding calls required.
08
Does the vendor publish independent security research?
PPPatient Protect publishes research through the Secure Care Research Institute, including papers available on SSRN covering breach prevention architecture.
We encourage you to ask Compliancy Group these same questions at compliancygroup.com
Common questions.
What does Compliancy Group do?
Compliancy Group is a well-respected HIPAA compliance platform that has built its reputation on guided compliance coaching. Practices working with Compliancy Group are already ahead of most of their peers. They publicly describe their approach as providing dedicated compliance coaches who walk practices through the compliance process. For current details on their features, pricing, and plans, visit compliancygroup.com directly.
How is Patient Protect different from Compliancy Group?
Patient Protect adds a security-first layer — active breach prevention, real-time monitoring, automated threat response, and clinical security tools — that complements rather than replaces compliance documentation. Compliancy Group focuses on a different discipline: dedicated human compliance coaching. Many practices use both together. Patient Protect takes a different approach to guidance with PIPAA — a HIPAA AI assistant that runs without any third-party cloud LLM — plus direct access to a certified HIPAA consultant when needed.
How much does Patient Protect cost?
Patient Protect Basic is $39/month per office and includes 14 platform features, risk assessment, policy generation, employee training, and the breach prevention engine. Patient Protect Pro is $99/month per office and adds secure messaging, breach simulation, the PIPAA AI assistant, and all 20 platform features. No contracts, no setup fees. For Compliancy Group pricing, visit compliancygroup.com.
Which platform is better for my practice?
It depends on what your practice needs most — and you do not necessarily have to choose one. If you need hands-on human guidance to understand HIPAA requirements, Compliancy Group's coaching model is a strong fit. If your practice needs active breach prevention, real-time monitoring, and clinical security tools, Patient Protect was built for that. Many practices use Compliancy Group for coaching alongside Patient Protect for security — the two platforms cover different disciplines. We encourage you to evaluate both against the questions in our evaluation framework above.
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