5 things healthcare engineering teams get wrong about HIPAA CI/CD

I've spent the last six years building cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for healthcare and defense engineering teams. The same five mistakes keep showing up across every HIPAA engagement I take on, and none of them are about not knowing what HIPAA requires. Engineers in healthcare aren't dumb. They've read 45 CFR § 164. They know what audit logs are. They've sat through compliance training that lasted longer than their last on-call rotation. The problem is structural. Most CI/CD pipeline