HIPAA Software Development Checklist

Unique user identities, role-based access, automatic session timeout, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logs of every PHI access — build requirements, not policies.

Access reviews, breach-response runbooks, workforce training, and risk assessments on a calendar — HIPAA is a posture maintained, and examiners ask for the evidence trail. This checklist orients engineering; your compliance counsel owns the legal positions.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.