Healthcare
Security and compliance for healthcare organizations.
HIPAA Security Rule compliance, required risk assessments, ePHI protection, and OCR-ready documentation. Eight years protecting providers, payers, and business associates, from rural health networks to national health plans.
At a glance
- Experience
- 8 years in healthcare security
- Clients
- Molina Healthcare, Premera Blue Cross, Delta Dental, US-Rx Care
- Requirement
- 45 CFR § 164.308 risk analysis
- Agreements
- BAA available
- Also
- Timberline private AI for healthcare
Regulatory context
What OCR is citing, and what the proposed rule changes.
More than half of 2025 OCR enforcement actions cited the same deficiency: failure to conduct an adequate security risk assessment. The proposed Security Rule update published in January 2025 would eliminate the “addressable” category, require encryption and MFA everywhere ePHI exists, and tie annual risk analysis to a technology asset inventory.
Healthcare organizations also carry the operational reality of EHR platforms, connected medical devices, and vendors that touch patient data. We have secured all of it, and we built Timberline so healthcare teams could use AI without sending PHI to public model APIs.
- Risk assessments structured for OCR review
- Encryption and key management for ePHI at rest and in transit
- Business associate security due diligence
- 72-hour restoration planning for critical systems
- HIPAA Security Rule
- Risk analysis, administrative, physical, and technical safeguards; proposed 2025 updates.
- HITECH
- Breach notification and enforcement.
- NIST CSF
- Program structure and maturity measurement.
- SOC 2
- For business associates responding to customer due diligence.
Services
What we do for healthcare organizations.
HIPAA security risk assessment
Required by the Security Rule, written for an OCR investigator. Completed in as little as two weeks.
Learn moreManaged security
EDR, email security, patching, 24/7 monitoring, and a named engineer for clinics, practices, and health IT vendors.
Learn moreEncryption & key management
ePHI encryption at rest and in transit, with keys you control.
Learn morePenetration testing
Annual testing of patient portals, APIs, and networks, with reporting your auditors can use.
Learn moreBackup & recovery
Protected copies and tested restoration for critical ePHI systems.
Learn moreTimberline
Private AI workspace for healthcare knowledge work, with a BAA available.
Learn moreThank you for your superb expertise and service. Your work enables our business to continue to be secure and compliant.
Sidechain’s pen test uncovered three critical vulnerabilities our previous vendor missed entirely. The remediation plan was clear, prioritized, and our team had everything fixed within two weeks.
FAQ
Questions we hear from healthcare leaders.
Do you sign BAAs?
Yes. Sidechain enters into Business Associate Agreements where our work may involve ePHI.
Can you work with our EHR vendor and MSP?
Yes. Our co-managed model coordinates with existing IT providers and application vendors, with responsibilities documented before onboarding.
We are a small practice. Is this for us?
Yes. The Health Check and the per-device managed program were designed for organizations without a security team of their own.
Talk with an engineer who knows your industry.
Tell us about your environment, your obligations, and your deadline. We respond within one business day.
(503) 389-3174 · info@sidechainsecurity.com · Portland, Oregon