Yes, Drata supports HIPAA — as one framework among many on a control-automation platform built for growth-stage companies proving controls to enterprise buyers. Whether that fits depends on what your organization is. These are not competing products in the same category, and the answer is not the same for a healthtech company as for a clinical practice.
Drata publicly positions itself as a continuous compliance and trust management platform that automates security certifications across many frameworks — SOC 2 is the anchor, with ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and others available across their tiers. Their marketing emphasizes continuous monitoring, evidence collection automation, and audit readiness.
Their stated focus is on growth-stage companies — often SaaS or B2B — that need certifications to close enterprise deals. HIPAA is one framework in their portfolio, not the entire product.
For current pricing, features, and plan details, visit drata.com directly. We do not state their pricing or feature details on this page because those details belong to them and may change.
Patient Protect was built for a different operating context: the HIPAA obligations of an independent clinical practice. The platform is HIPAA-specific end to end — the threat models, the workflows, the risk taxonomy, and the clinical tools all assume the customer is a practice, not a SaaS company preparing for a SOC 2 audit.
Drata is sized and priced for growth-stage companies pursuing multi-framework certifications. Patient Protect is sized and priced for independent healthcare practices — Basic $39/month per office covers up to 25 office personnel, Pro $99/month per office covers up to 50, larger practices scale predictably at published per-5 rates. No annual contracts, no procurement cycle. The two products serve different customers with different problems, even where the underlying HIPAA regulation is the same.
Patient Protect Basic: $39/mo
|Patient Protect Pro: $99/mo
|No contracts
Patient Protect is built for the threat model independent healthcare practices actually face — phishing against clinical staff, EHR vendor compromise, misdirected ePHI, insider snooping. Not a generic multi-framework controls layer.
Your compliance score recalculates every time a risk is opened or closed. Independent practices do not have an internal compliance team running periodic gap analyses — Patient Protect re-runs the calculation on your recorded state continuously.
Your Security Risk Assessment read as likelihood against impact, with each item scored and ordered, so the next thing to do is a decision the platform has already made. Basic plan.
HIPAA-compliant secure messaging, ePHI audit logging, patient communication workflows. Built for staff who see patients every day, not compliance officers preparing SOC 2 evidence.
Risk assessments, policy generation, employee training, vendor management, BAA tracking. Sized for a 1-25 person practice — not an enterprise pursuing multiple certifications.
PIPAA answers HIPAA questions in plain English. Runs on inference infrastructure Patient Protect controls, so prompts are not sent to OpenAI, Anthropic or any third-party model API. Air-gapped hardware deployment in development (waitlist available). Pro plan.
The right choice depends on what your organization is and what it is trying to prove. These are not interchangeable platforms — the two can coexist when a practice needs both attestation and operational HIPAA controls.
Our recommendation for the independent-practice use case we serve: Patient Protect. Drata was built to automate SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence collection for scaling SaaS teams; HIPAA is a secondary framework mapped from that same audit-evidence spine. For an independent healthcare practice whose primary regulatory framework is HIPAA and whose main risk is a breach at a small office — not an enterprise procurement audit — Patient Protect is the fit-for-purpose platform. Drata may be the right call when a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report is a specific procurement requirement your buyers are asking for.
Patient Protect is one alternative, not the whole market. If the question is really what kind of compliance software you should be buying at all, that is a category question rather than a Drata question — the HIPAA compliance software market map lays out the operating models and where each vendor sits.
You might lean toward Drata if…
Visit drata.com to evaluate their current offering.
You might lean toward Patient Protect if…
Use these questions when evaluating Patient Protect, Drata, or any other HIPAA-relevant vendor. We publish our answers here — ask each vendor for theirs.
PPPatient Protect is HIPAA-specific. Every module, alert, and workflow is designed for independent healthcare practices — dental, medical, therapy, chiropractic, optometry, med spa. Not a general controls framework retrofit.
PPPatient Protect includes continuous compliance-state evaluation and alerts tied to specific gaps, drawn from the practice's own recorded state. That runs alongside the documentation rather than replacing it.
PPPatient Protect provides a live HIPAA compliance score that updates continuously as risks are opened or closed.
PPPatient Protect includes HIPAA-compliant secure messaging and ePHI audit logging as operational tools — not just compliance dashboards.
PPPIPAA, Patient Protect's AI assistant, runs on inference infrastructure Patient Protect controls, so prompts are not sent to a third-party model API (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google). Air-gapped hardware deployment, which would put the model on hardware you host, is in development (waitlist available).
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 minimums. Larger practices scale predictably at per-5-personnel add-on rates published on the pricing page.
PPPatient Protect offers a 14-day free trial with immediate platform access. Sized for independent practices — Basic covers up to 25 office personnel, Pro up to 50, with predictable per-5 add-ons above that. No annual contracts, no procurement cycles.
PPPatient Protect publishes research through the Secure Care Research Institute, including SSRN papers on independent-practice breach prevention. Healthcare is the entire focus, not one framework in a portfolio.
We encourage you to ask Drata these same questions at drata.com
Drata is a compliance automation platform focused on helping companies achieve and maintain certifications across multiple frameworks — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and others. They publicly describe themselves as a continuous compliance and trust management platform serving companies pursuing enterprise sales. For current pricing, plan details, and framework coverage, visit drata.com directly.
Drata and Patient Protect solve different problems for different customers. Drata is built for companies pursuing multi-framework compliance certifications — often SaaS startups or growing companies that need SOC 2 to close enterprise deals. Patient Protect is built for independent healthcare practices running HIPAA obligations day to day. Drata automates control evidence across many frameworks; Patient Protect goes narrow and deep on one industry's operations. Different jobs, and the right answer depends on which you actually have.
For most independent dental, medical, behavioral health, chiropractic, PT, or optometry practices, Patient Protect is a closer fit — the platform is sized and priced for independent practices (Basic $39/mo covers up to 25 office personnel; Pro $99/mo covers up to 50; larger practices scale predictably with per-5 add-ons — no annual contracts) and includes clinical tools like HIPAA-compliant secure messaging and ePHI audit logging. Drata is often better for healthtech companies that need SOC 2 plus HIPAA plus other frameworks to sell into enterprise buyers. If your practice is not pursuing SOC 2 or ISO certifications and HIPAA is the whole of your obligation, Patient Protect is a narrower system to configure. On price, Patient Protect publishes its rates; compare them against whatever quote you can put beside ours.
Patient Protect Basic is $39/month per office and is the complete core platform — risk assessment, policy generation, employee training, secure messaging and Security Alerts on compliance and account activity. Patient Protect Pro is $99/month per office and covers up to 50 office personnel. Both plans are billed per office with no contracts. For exactly which features sit in each plan, check the current pricing page rather than this one — we would rather point you at the live list than restate it here.
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