Know
Know what just happened.
Live breach alerts and enforcement actions from HHS OCR — delivered the moment they publish, not when you check a website.
The mobile pillar · HIPAA Foundation
The HIPAA Foundation, in your pocket.
Push notifications the moment HHS publishes a breach. Compliance scoring you check between patients. Every reported breach mapped by state. The mobile channel of Patient Protect’s free HIPAA Foundation — iOS-first, no account required.
5.0·Free·iOS·No account required
Where Signal fits
One channel in a larger foundation.
Patient Protect publishes a free collection of HIPAA tools, data, and research — risk assessments, ePHI mapping, an open breach dataset, PHI-detection software, training, and a research institute. All of it lives on the web. Signal is the same intelligence on the surface a practice actually uses between patients: the phone in your pocket.
What mobile does that web cannot: push a notification the moment HHS files a breach, land on your home screen while you’re in a chair-side conversation, and show your compliance score with a glance you can take during a walkout window.
Push, not pull.
The web tools wait for you to check. Signal pushes the alert the moment a breach is filed to HHS OCR.
Home-screen presence.
An app icon on the practice-owner phone is a permanent reminder the suite exists. A bookmark is not.
Between-patient windows.
A 90-second walkout window is enough to scan a compliance score, not enough to open a laptop.
App Store trust signal.
A shipped, reviewed, 5.0-rated iOS app is a maturity marker no competitor in this category currently carries.
Track
Track where you stand.
A compliance scorecard that reflects your real standing — updated as you complete assessments, not frozen from last quarter.
Act
Act before it costs you.
Risk assessment tools and guided remediation built for independent practices — no consultants, no jargon.
What's inside
Six tools. One app. Zero cost.
Intelligence
Live breach data
Every reported breach. Mapped. Tracked. Contextualized.
The Breach Dashboard pulls directly from HHS OCR public data — every reported healthcare breach, mapped by state, trended over time, and filterable by entity type and vector.
National breach map with state-level drill-down
Trending by attack vector and entity type
Updated nightly from HHS OCR public records
Curated news
HIPAA Pulse delivers the signal that matters.
Curated healthcare security intelligence — breach reports, enforcement actions, regulation changes, and litigation updates. Every story categorized by severity and tagged for relevance.
Severity-coded stories from critical to guidance
Category filtering: breaches, enforcement, litigation, cyber
Daily intelligence briefs with trending themes
Enforcement tracking
See what OCR is enforcing — and where the penalties land.
Track OCR enforcement actions, resolution agreements, and civil monetary penalties. Understand which violations draw the largest fines and which practice types are most targeted.
Penalty amounts and violation categories
Resolution agreement details and corrective actions
Enforcement trends by year and violation type
Compliance Tools
Compliance scoring
A compliance score that actually means something.
The Compliance Scorecard evaluates your practice across the three categories that matter: administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, and technical safeguards. No vanity metrics.
Three-category scoring aligned to HIPAA Security Rule
Score updates as you complete assessment items
Clear gap identification with remediation guidance
Risk assessment
The SRA that independent practices can actually finish.
A guided Security Risk Assessment built for practices without a compliance department. Plain-language questions, contextual help, and a score you can act on.
Covers §164.308(a)(1) requirements
Plain-language questions with contextual guidance
Generates actionable remediation priorities
AI assistant
Ask a HIPAA question. Get a real answer.
The HIPAA Assistant answers compliance questions in context — not generic legal boilerplate, but specific guidance for independent healthcare practices.
Trained on HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules
Answers contextualized for small practice operations
Available directly in the app — no login wall
We built Signal free because awareness should not have a paywall.
Independent healthcare providers are the fastest-growing target for cyberattacks — but they are the least likely to have a dedicated security team. Most breach intelligence is locked behind enterprise subscriptions that cost more than a small practice's entire IT budget.
Signal is permanently free. Every tool is fully functional, with no feature gates that unlock after 14 days and no account creation required.
If Signal is all you ever use, you will still be better informed than most practices running paid compliance software. If you decide your practice needs the full operating system — active breach prevention, autonomous compliance, vendor risk, audit trails — Patient Protect is there. But Signal stands on its own.
Compare
Free intelligence. Or the full operating system.
Free
Signal
Intelligence and awareness tools
- Breach Dashboard with national map
- HIPAA Pulse curated news feed
- Compliance Scorecard
- Security Risk Assessment
- OCR Enforcement Tracker
- HIPAA AI Assistant
From $39/mo
Patient Protect
The full compliance operating system
- Everything in Signal
- Autonomous Compliance Engine
- AI Compliance Copilot (on-premises)
- Vendor Risk Scanner
- Breach Simulator
- Workforce Training & Tracking
- Secure Messaging (BAA-gated)
- ePHI Audit Trail
- Data Flow Mapper
- Financial Exposure Tracker
FAQ
Common questions about Signal.
Is Signal really free?
Yes. No trial period, no feature gates, no credit card required. Signal is a standalone free app — not a limited version of the platform.
Do I need a Patient Protect account to use Signal?
No. Signal works independently. You can download it and start using breach intelligence, compliance scoring, and risk assessment tools without creating any account.
What data does Signal collect?
Signal does not collect personal health information. Analytics are limited to standard app usage metrics. No login means no personal data stored on our servers.
Is Signal available on Android?
Not yet. Signal is currently iOS only. Android availability is planned but not yet scheduled.
How is Signal different from Patient Protect?
Signal gives you intelligence and assessment tools. Patient Protect gives you an operating system — autonomous compliance engine, vendor risk management, workforce training, secure messaging, and audit-ready evidence generation. Signal helps you see the risk. Patient Protect helps you close it.
Start with free intelligence.
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Available on iOS. Android coming soon.
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Track the threat landscape
Signal alerts you the moment a breach files. The platform is what you use to prevent one from happening at your practice.
Next in the sequence
Breach DashboardA breach dashboard, HIPAA Pulse newsroom, iOS app, and a citable dataset give visibility into attacks, enforcement, and emerging risk.