Medcurity brings clarity to HIPAA compliance with personalized, expert guidance and recommendations for enhancing security.
A full, accurate HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA) is more than a checklist required by the Office of Civil Rights. It is the essential first step to understanding an organization’s overall security posture and serves as a blueprint for your HIPAA program.
SRAs enable organizations to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities. An annual Security Risk Analysis is essential to proactively mitigating risk and reducing the likelihood of a breach or successful cyberattack.
In our increasingly interconnected world, cybersecurity incidents in healthcare are more significant than ever, underscoring the importance of ongoing security and HIPAA compliance.
From just under 600 OCR-reported breaches in 2020, to a projected 1,400 by the end of 2025, cyberattacks and breaches are escalating – fast. The threat landscape is shifting dramatically.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) actively enforces the HIPAA Security Rule and is increasing their frequency of random audits. Failure to conduct a full, accurate SRA is a primary reason for enforcement actions and substantial financial penalties.
To date, the OCR has settled or imposed a civil money penalty in 152 cases, resulting in a total dollar amount of $144,878,972.00.
Critical importance is placed on the SRA: The OCR investigates all significant data breaches and begins by requesting SRA documentation. Demonstrating a good faith effort to mitigate risk is essential, as it may influence the severity of penalties.
To truly understand your security posture, it’s important to take a deeper look into technical infrastructure. In 2025 alone, over 200 million patient records are expected to be compromised due to IT-related vulnerabilities like unpatched servers, exposed ports, and phishing exploits.
While the Security Risk Analysis addresses procedural and physical aspects of security, Network Vulnerability Assessments focus on technical safeguards—your and external network, systems, and software. Conducting a full NVA helps identify weaknesses and hidden security gaps that are often exploited by malicious actors.
Together, the Security Risk Analysis and Network Vulnerability Assessment can provide a clearer picture of your overall risk, encompassing human, process, and technical factors. This allows you to focus your security efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Medcurity’s intuitive, AI-powered platform and team of HIPAA specialists make compliance a stress-free endeavor for organizations of every size. Our pricing structure is designed to adapt to your size, budget, and funding. This scalable model, based exclusively on FTE count, ensures our services are cost-effective.
To support the health of our communities nationwide, we continue to build and nurture strategic partnerships. Partnering with Medcurity means gaining access to expert support and essential tools all year round.
Through our customized partnership agreements, members of regional and national associations such as AACHC and NWRPCA receive SRA licenses at a discounted cost.
We begin by understanding our client’s unique needs and challenges through a personalized consultation. This ensures we tailor the Security Risk Analysis (SRA) to each organization’s unique environment and goals.
We work closely with our clients to gather essential documents, system details, and policies, focusing on your operational processes to assess your overall posture. Our experts then analyze the information gathered to identify potential risks and gaps in compliance, prioritizing the most critical issues.
We generate a detailed report detailing risks categorized by severity, with actionable recommendations to enhance security and meet HIPAA requirements. We go over the report with our clients, explain findings, propose solutions, and answer questions.
Together, we develop a tailored action plan, prioritizing critical areas with timelines for implementation. Implementing these plans is key to demonstrating your path to compliance, particularly to the OCR. Our team offers support throughout the year and schedules quarterly check-ins with clients to help track progress.
Meeting HIPAA requirements and keeping patient data protected is an ongoing commitment that requires a proactive approach and informed strategy. We offer a clear path to a more resilient future with our comprehensive SRA and NVA services.
At Medcurity, we provide expert services and intuitive tools to help you get the most out of your compliance efforts. Our AI-powered platform, Security Risk Analysis services, Network Vulnerability Assessments, and Vendor Management Solutions are here to guide you every step of the way.
Headquartered in Spokane, WA, Medcurity is a leading provider of HIPAA compliance solutions. The company’s mission is to bring clarity and confidence to HIPAA compliance.
With decades of experience in healthcare, technology, and compliance, the Medcurity team offers guidance and intuitive tools to help healthcare organizations build a more secure, HIPAA-compliant future.
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