A HIPAA-safe alert pipeline checklist (8 controls)

Originally published at theculprit.ai/blog/hipaa-checklist-for-alert-pipelines . The compliance review for a healthtech SaaS usually treats the alert pipeline as a footnote. The product is HIPAA-ready, the database is encrypted, the BAAs are signed, the access controls are documented. Then someone runs grep on a week of monitoring logs and finds patient IDs, member emails, and the occasional plaintext SSN sitting in alert payloads — copies of which were forwarded to a third-party log aggregator