What Is a BAA? The HIPAA Business Associate Agreement Explained
A BAA — Business Associate Agreement — is a legally required contract under HIPAA between a covered entity and any vendor that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information (PHI) on its behalf. Without a signed BAA, using any third-party vendor for anything involving PHI is a direct HIPAA violation — regardless of how... Continue reading
HIPAA Compliant Hosting Providers Compared: HIPAA Vault vs Atlantic.Net vs Liquid Web vs AWS vs Azure (2026)
The verdict: All five providers can support HIPAA-compliant hosting — but they serve very different audiences and come with very different levels of compliance management. HIPAA Vault and Atlantic.Net offer purpose-built HIPAA hosting with dedicated compliance support. Liquid Web provides managed hosting with HIPAA-audited infrastructure. AWS offers the most flexibility but places full compliance responsibility... Continue reading
HIPAA Compliant File Sharing: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know in 2026
In plain terms:: File sharing can be HIPAA compliant — but only when it uses a solution that encrypts data in transit and at rest, provides audit logging, enforces access controls, and is backed by a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA). Standard file sharing tools like email attachments, consumer Dropbox, Google Drive through a personal... Continue reading
Vibe Coding for Healthcare Apps: Which AI App Builders Are HIPAA Compliant? (2026)
The hard truth: None of the major vibe coding platforms — Base44, Bubble, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, FlutterFlow, or Glide — are HIPAA compliant hosting environments. Several explicitly prohibit uploading PHI in their terms of service. However, some platforms (Replit, Cursor, Lovable) allow you to export your code, which means you can build your app there... Continue reading