Medcurity vs. Accountable HQ: An Honest 2026 Comparison
Comparing Medcurity vs. Accountable HQ for HIPAA in 2026? See where each fits — healthcare-vertical specialist vs. general-HIPAA AI-agent SaaS. Honest head-to-head.
Medcurity vs HIPAA One (Paubox) — A Healthcare-Native Alternative for 2026
A healthcare-native alternative to HIPAA One (now sold under Paubox). Compare Medcurity’s healthcare-specific SRA, BAA management, and audit-ready compliance for 2026.
What Is a HIPAA Risk Assessment? Definition & Legal Requirement Explained
Definitive 2026 guide to HIPAA Security Risk Assessments — what they are, the 6-step process, the three safeguard categories, and what’s changing under the proposed Security Rule update.
HIPAA 2026 Updates: New Security Rule Changes Every Organization Must Know
HIPAA 2026 Updates: New Security Rule Changes Every Organization Must Know Quick Answer: The proposed 2026 HIPAA Security Rule update (published as an NPRM in December 2024, not yet finalized) would introduce mandatory encryption for all ePHI, required multi-factor authentication, network segmentation standards, defined vulnerability-management timeframes, enhanced audit-log requirements, and annual compliance assessments. When finalized, […]
HIPAA BYOD Policy: Managing Personal Devices in Healthcare Settings
HIPAA BYOD Policy: Managing Personal Devices in Healthcare Settings Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is now the default in most healthcare settings. Clinicians check schedules on personal phones, nurses message colleagues from their own tablets, and administrators answer email on home laptops. What makes BYOD a distinct HIPAA problem is ownership: the organization is responsible for protecting electronic […]
HIPAA and Penetration Testing: When and How to Test Your Security
HIPAA and Penetration Testing: When and How to Test Your Security Penetration testing answers a question a risk analysis on paper cannot: if a real attacker targeted your network today, would your safeguards actually hold? For healthcare organizations, that distinction matters. A Security Risk Analysis identifies where ePHI lives and what could go wrong; a […]
Zero Trust Security for Healthcare: Implementing HIPAA-Aligned Architecture
Zero Trust Security for Healthcare: Implementing HIPAA-Aligned Architecture Most healthcare networks were built on a model that no longer holds up: trust everything inside the firewall, scrutinize everything outside it. Zero trust inverts that assumption. It treats every request for electronic protected health information (ePHI) as untrusted until the user, device, and context are verified, […]
Phishing Prevention for Healthcare: Protecting PHI from Social Engineering
Phishing Prevention for Healthcare: Protecting PHI from Social Engineering Phishing is the single most common entry point for healthcare data breaches, and the reason is structural: hospitals and clinics run on email, staff are busy and trained to be helpful, and a single set of stolen credentials can unlock an inbox full of protected health […]
HIPAA Compliance for Occupational Therapy Practices
HIPAA Compliance for Occupational Therapy Practices Occupational therapy sits in a corner of healthcare where protected health information (PHI) rarely stays inside a clinic. OT practitioners document patients in their kitchens, their classrooms, and their workplaces, and the records they keep — functional capacity evaluations, activities-of-daily-living (ADL) assessments, home-safety photos, adaptive-equipment recommendations, and detailed progress […]
HIPAA and Ransomware: Prevention, Response, and Breach Notification
HIPAA and Ransomware: Prevention, Response, and Breach Notification Ransomware is different from most HIPAA security topics because the Office for Civil Rights has been explicit about it: when ransomware encrypts electronic protected health information (ePHI), that encryption is a “disclosure” not permitted under the Privacy Rule, and it is presumed to be a reportable breach […]