HIPAA Readiness Roadmap
PancreaTrack is actively building toward full HIPAA compliance. This page reflects our current security posture, the protections already in place, and our concrete path to a fully HIPAA-compliant production environment.
PancreaTrack is a consumer health application in active development. We have obtained a Business Associate Agreement with Amazon Web Services and have implemented significant security controls. However, production infrastructure has not yet migrated to HIPAA-eligible cloud services. Physicians should not treat the platform as a covered HIPAA system at this time.
What Is Already in Place
| Control | Status |
|---|---|
| TLS/SSL encryption in transit (all pages and API endpoints) | ✅ Active |
| Bcrypt password hashing | ✅ Active |
| Role-based access control (patient, physician, admin) | ✅ Active |
| Physician NPI verification before data access | ✅ Active |
| Patient consent required before physician record access | ✅ Active |
| Audit logging for all physician data access events | ✅ Active |
| Admin-only portal with separate authentication | ✅ Active |
| Emergency contact access via PIN-protected share tokens | ✅ Active |
| PCI-compliant payment processing via Stripe (no card data stored) | ✅ Active |
| Support ticketing system with tracked issue resolution | ✅ Active |
| Business Associate Agreement (BAA) — Amazon Web Services | ✅ Executed |
| AWS HIPAA-eligible account established (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudTrail) | ✅ Provisioned |
| Production migration to AWS HIPAA-eligible environment | ⏳ In Progress |
| Database encryption at rest (AWS RDS encrypted volumes) | ⏳ Pending migration |
| VPC network isolation & private subnets | ⏳ Pending migration |
| CloudTrail audit logging (infrastructure-level) | ⏳ Pending migration |
| CloudWatch monitoring & alerting | ⏳ Pending migration |
| BAA — Anthropic (AI infrastructure) | 🔄 Planned Q3 2026 |
| Annual security risk assessment | 🔄 Planned Q3 2026 |
| Breach notification policy (formal documentation) | 🔄 Planned Q3 2026 |
| Workforce HIPAA training documentation | 🔄 Planned Q3 2026 |
| Penetration testing (third-party) | 🔄 Planned Q4 2026 |
| Formal HIPAA compliance attestation | 🔄 Planned Q1 2027 |
Roadmap Milestones
✅ Completed — Security Foundation
- TLS encryption enforced across all application endpoints
- Physician audit log implemented — every data access event is recorded with timestamp and user
- Role-based access control separating patient, physician, and admin contexts
- PIN-protected emergency contact access with tamper-evident share tokens
- Stripe PCI-compliant billing integration — no sensitive payment data stored on our servers
- Business Associate Agreement executed with Amazon Web Services via AWS Artifact
- HIPAA-eligible AWS account established, ready to receive production workloads
⏳ In Progress — AWS Cloud Migration
- Migrate production database to AWS RDS with encryption at rest enabled
- Deploy application on AWS EC2 within a VPC with private subnets
- Enable AWS CloudTrail for infrastructure-level audit logging
- Configure CloudWatch monitoring, alerting, and log retention
- Move file storage to encrypted AWS S3 buckets
Q3 2026 — Administrative & Policy Controls
- Execute BAA with Anthropic for AI infrastructure
- Conduct first annual security risk assessment
- Draft and publish formal breach notification procedures
- Complete workforce HIPAA training documentation
- Implement automatic session timeout policies across all portals
Q4 2026 — Formal Verification
- Commission third-party penetration test
- Remediate all identified findings
- Complete dependency security audit
- Publish formal HIPAA compliance attestation
Q1 2027 — Full HIPAA Compliance
- Engage third-party HIPAA compliance auditor
- Achieve and publish compliance attestation
- Establish ongoing compliance monitoring program
PancreaTrack has executed a Business Associate Agreement with Amazon Web Services. Our AWS account is provisioned on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC). Production migration to this environment is currently underway. Additional BAAs with AI and third-party service providers are planned for Q3 2026.
PancreaTrack is purpose-built for pancreatic disease patients and is designed with HIPAA compliance as a primary goal. We have secured a BAA with our cloud infrastructure provider and have implemented physician audit logging, role-based access controls, and consent-gated data sharing. Pilot studies using PancreaTrack data should include appropriate IRB disclosure of current compliance status pending full migration.
Questions?
For compliance-related inquiries — from health systems, IRBs, or potential partners — contact us at compliance@pancreatrack.com.