Taction Software builds HIPAA-compliant mobile and web applications for hospitals, provider groups, payers, and digital health companies that handle protected health information. Compliance is not a checklist we apply before launch. It is an architectural decision that shapes how your app authenticates users, stores records, transmits data, logs activity, and proves control effectiveness to an auditor. Since 2013 our engineering teams have delivered more than 500 software projects and completed over 250 healthcare and EHR integrations, giving us a working understanding of where PHI actually leaks in production systems and how to close those gaps before release.
We build iOS, Android, and cross-platform apps that let patients view records, message clinicians, and manage appointments, with PHI encrypted on device and session handling that survives a lost phone.
Encrypted video, digital consent capture, waiting room queues, and visit documentation that writes back to the chart. Signaling and media paths are isolated so recordings and transcripts never sit in unmanaged storage.
Device and wearable data ingestion, threshold alerting, and clinician dashboards for chronic care programs. Vitals arrive through authenticated channels, and every reading carries provenance metadata for later audit and billing review.
Rounding tools, referral management, care coordination, and secure messaging built for shared devices. Role-based access, short session timeouts, and per-user audit trails keep shift-based usage inside HIPAA expectations.
Eligibility checks, prior authorization workflows, claims status tools, and member portals. These systems touch both PHI and financial data, so we separate concerns at the data layer rather than the interface layer.
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There is no HIPAA certification for software. An application is compliant when the organization operating it can demonstrate that required administrative, physical, and technical safeguards are implemented, documented, and monitored. That means your app needs more than encryption. It needs access controls that map to real job functions, audit logs that answer who saw which record and when, business associate agreements across every vendor in the data path, and breach notification procedures that can execute inside the statutory window. Getting any one of these wrong exposes the covered entity, not just the vendor. Our guide to HIPAA violation penalties breaks down the tiered fine structure and what triggers each tier.
Every user gets a distinct identity, no shared logins. Permissions follow minimum necessary access, and emergency access procedures are documented so clinical urgency never becomes a reason to bypass controls.
We log record-level access, not just authentication events. Logs are immutable, retained per your policy, and queryable, because an auditor asks who viewed a specific chart on a specific date.
TLS 1.2 or higher for all transport, AES-256 at rest, and managed key rotation. Encryption is treated as addressable under the Security Rule, so we document the decision either way.
Checksums, versioning, and tamper detection confirm that records have not been altered improperly. Multi-factor authentication protects privileged accounts and any interface that exposes bulk PHI export.
Cloud hosting, analytics, messaging, error monitoring, and support tooling each need a signed BAA. We inventory every vendor touching PHI and swap out those that will not sign one.
Retrofitting compliance is the most expensive way to reach it. We front-load the security work so that architecture, data model, and infrastructure decisions are made with the Security Rule already in view. That sequence starts with a risk analysis, moves into data flow mapping and threat modeling, then into a secure development lifecycle where code review and dependency scanning run on every merge. Before launch we run penetration testing and hand over the documentation set your compliance officer needs. The result is an application that is audit-ready on release day rather than six months after it.
We identify where PHI enters, rests, moves, and exits, then rate likelihood and impact for each point. Architecture decisions follow that assessment instead of preceding it.
Every PHI path is diagrammed across services, third parties, and devices. We then model realistic attacker paths, including insider misuse and compromised mobile clients, and design controls against them.
Static analysis, dependency scanning, and secrets detection run in CI. Peer review covers authorization logic specifically, because broken object-level authorization remains the most common route to unintended PHI exposure.
Independent testing before launch, with findings triaged by severity and retested after fixes. We document what was tested, what was found, and what remains accepted risk.
You receive risk assessment records, policies, access control matrices, encryption decisions, log retention settings, and vendor BAA inventory. This package is what turns engineering work into demonstrable compliance.
Most healthcare apps are only useful once they read from and write to the systems clinicians already use. That integration layer is where compliance risk concentrates, because data leaves your controlled environment and enters someone else’s. We build interface layers against Epic, Oracle Health, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and custom systems using HL7 v2, FHIR R4, and CDA, with message-level auditing and retry logic that never writes PHI to plain-text queues. Our Epic EHR integration guide covers App Orchard onboarding, scope requests, and the timelines to plan for.
We build both legacy and modern interfaces, often in parallel during migration. FHIR resources are scoped tightly with SMART on FHIR so tokens grant only what the workflow requires.
Record retrieval through Carequality, Health Gorilla, and eHealth Exchange broadens patient context. Our Carequality integration services cover implementer onboarding, treatment purpose of use, and query governance.
Surescripts connectivity supports prescription routing, medication history, and eligibility checks. Controlled substance prescribing adds EPCS identity proofing and two-factor requirements we implement to specification.
Consent state is stored as data, not assumed by workflow. Queries carry purpose of use, and revoked consent propagates to caches and downstream services rather than lingering in them.
Dead letter queues, alerting, and reconciliation reports catch dropped messages. A silently failing interface is a patient safety issue as much as a technical one, so monitoring is part of scope.
Cloud providers offer HIPAA-eligible services under a BAA, but eligibility is conditional. Using a covered service incorrectly, logging PHI to an unencrypted store, or enabling a feature outside BAA scope breaks compliance without any warning from the platform. We design infrastructure that keeps PHI inside eligible services, isolates workloads at the network level, manages keys separately from data, and de-identifies datasets before they reach analytics or model training. Environments are provisioned as code so that development and staging cannot quietly accumulate production records.
We architect on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud using services covered by the signed BAA, and we document which services touch PHI and which are deliberately excluded.
PHI workloads sit in private subnets with no direct internet exposure. Administrative access runs through bastion or zero-trust access layers with session recording and time-bound credentials.
Customer-managed keys, automated rotation, and secrets held in a dedicated vault. Application code never carries embedded credentials, and key access is logged as an auditable event.
Safe harbor or expert determination de-identification before data reaches warehouses, dashboards, or model training. This keeps analytics ambitions from turning into an unplanned disclosure.
Backup encryption, tested restore procedures, and documented recovery objectives satisfy the contingency plan standard. We test restores rather than assuming backups work.
Compliance work has a real cost, and pretending otherwise leads to projects that stall at security review. Security architecture, audit logging, penetration testing, and documentation typically add meaningful effort over a non-regulated equivalent, and that effort is cheaper spent upfront than after a failed assessment. We scope in three tiers so budget matches ambition, and we are direct about which features drive cost. Detailed breakdowns by platform and feature set are covered in our mobile app development cost guide.
A focused compliant application with core workflows, one integration, and full safeguard implementation. Suited to validating a clinical or commercial hypothesis before broader investment. See our MVP development company approach.
Multi-role applications with several integrations, RPM or telehealth capability, analytics, and administrative tooling. This tier covers most provider-facing and digital health product builds end to end.
Multi-tenant platforms, extensive interoperability, high availability requirements, and formal security assessment support. Typical for health systems, payers, and companies serving multiple covered entities.
Add compliant-by-default engineers to your existing roadmap when internal capacity is the constraint. You can hire mobile app developers with prior healthcare and PHI experience.
Integration count, real-time requirements, device connectivity, number of user roles, and formal audit support move budgets more than screen count. We flag these during scoping, not mid-build.
We work only in healthcare, which means our engineers already understand charge capture, referral loops, encounter data, and why a clinician will abandon an app that adds two clicks. Founded in 2013, with a CEO bringing over 20 years of personal experience in the sector, we have served more than 200 organizations across provider, payer, and digital health segments. Delivered work includes Voyant Health, Revive Ease and PainKare, and CHIPSS. Compliance is treated as an engineering discipline here, documented and testable, rather than a legal paragraph added to a proposal.
Every engineer on your project has shipped healthcare software before. That removes the ramp-up period where a generalist team learns what an MRN is and why identity matching is hard.
With over 250 healthcare and EHR integrations completed, interface work is routine rather than exploratory. We know which vendor processes take weeks and plan sequencing around them.
You receive working software and the evidence trail supporting it. Risk assessments, control documentation, and test results are deliverables, not afterthoughts requested later.
Regulations, cipher suites, and OS security models change. Ongoing support covers dependency patching, penetration retesting, and control review so compliance does not decay after launch.
Buyers evaluating a HIPAA app development partner tend to ask the same practical questions about certification, timelines, cost drivers, and where liability sits. The answers below reflect how we scope and deliver real projects rather than general regulatory summaries. If your situation involves multiple covered entities, controlled substance prescribing, or a pending security assessment, those details change sequencing significantly and are worth raising in the first conversation so the plan reflects them from the start.
No. HIPAA has no certifying body for software. Compliance is demonstrated through implemented safeguards, documentation, and monitoring, which is why we deliver an evidence package alongside the application.
An MVP with one integration typically runs three to five months. Multi-integration platforms run six to twelve. Third-party vendor onboarding, not development, is usually the longest fixed dependency.
Yes. As a business associate handling PHI during development, testing, or support, we sign a BAA before any environment containing real patient data is provisioned.
We recommend synthetic or de-identified datasets for development and staging. Where production-like data is unavoidable, it stays inside covered environments with the same controls as production.
Liability depends on the BAA and where the failure occurred. Covered entities retain obligations regardless, which is why documented control ownership matters more than assurances.
No. States including California, Texas, and Washington add requirements beyond HIPAA. We map applicable state law into the control set during risk analysis rather than after launch.
Often yes. We start with a gap assessment against the Security Rule, then prioritize remediation. Authorization logic and audit logging are the most common areas requiring rework.
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