Vendor Risk Management for Healthcare MSPs: Managing the Subcontractors Behind Your Service
A managed service provider serving healthcare clients carries its clients’ vendor risk and its own. Under 45 CFR 164.308(b), an MSP that is a business associate must bind every subcontractor handling protected health information to equivalent terms, which means the MSP owns an assessment and documentation obligation for its entire supply chain. Vendor risk management […]
MSP BAA Obligations: What a Business Associate Agreement Commits You To
A Business Associate Agreement commits a managed service provider to five things: use protected health information only as the agreement permits, apply Security Rule safeguards to it, report security incidents and breaches to the client, bind its own subcontractors to the same terms, and return or destroy the data when the agreement ends. Those terms […]
HIPAA Compliance for MSPs: What Managed Service Providers Are Responsible For
A managed service provider that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of a healthcare client is a business associate under HIPAA. Since the 2013 Omnibus Rule, business associates are directly liable for the HIPAA Security Rule, not liable only through their contract. That means an MSP needs a signed Business Associate […]
Vendor Risk Management for HIPAA: Assessing Your Business Associates
Covered entities and business associates are responsible for the risk their vendors introduce to protected health information. Medcurity Vendor Risk Management assesses those vendors, tracks Business Associate Agreements, and documents third-party risk, alongside the Security Risk Analysis that HIPAA already requires. What Medcurity Vendor Risk Management covers Why vendor risk is part of HIPAA compliance […]
HIPAA Security Risk Analysis for Hospitals and Health Systems
HIPAA Security Risk Analysis for Hospitals and Health Systems Hospitals and health systems need a Security Risk Analysis that covers technical, administrative, and physical safeguards, maps to recognized frameworks, and produces a remediation plan. Medcurity delivers all three, with an onsite physical-safeguard assessment under 45 CFR 164.310, mapping to NIST including SP 800-66, and year-round […]
HIPAA Compliance for Small Practices: A Named Advisor, Not Just Software
HIPAA Compliance for Small Practices: A Named Advisor, Not Just Software Small practices get the most from HIPAA compliance when a named human advisor guides the work, not a self-service portal alone. Medcurity pairs every Small Practice Security Risk Analysis with an advisor who runs the assessment, explains the findings, and stays available year-round, starting […]
HIPAA Compliance for Business Associates: What Vendors Handling PHI Need in 2026
A business associate meets HIPAA by doing three things: completing a Security Risk Analysis of every system that touches protected health information, signing and tracking a Business Associate Agreement with each covered entity and downstream vendor, and keeping that work current instead of one-and-done. Everything else a vendor is told it “needs” sits on top […]
How Long Does a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Take?
How Long Does a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Take? A HIPAA Security Risk Analysis takes anywhere from a few days to a couple of months, and the spread is almost entirely explained by three things: how many sites and systems are in scope, how ready your asset inventory is, and whether the pace is set […]
HIPAA One Alternatives: How to Compare SRA Vendors in 2026
HIPAA One Alternatives: How to Compare SRA Vendors in 2026 HIPAA One, now part of Intraprise Health, is a capable Security Risk Analysis platform, and for large health systems with many sub-entities it is a reasonable default. Organizations most often look for an alternative for one of two reasons: the enterprise feature set is more […]
Best Compliancy Group Alternatives (2026)
Best Compliancy Group Alternatives (2026) If you are comparing alternatives to Compliancy Group, the shortlist worth your time is short: Medcurity, Accountable, Vanta, and Drata. The right pick turns on one question that pricing pages rarely answer directly: do you need software that documents your compliance work, or do you need someone to come do […]