Healthcare · HIPAA Security Rule · OCR-aware
HIPAA Compliance Assessment.
Fifteen honest questions across the three HIPAA Security Rule safeguard families — Administrative, Physical, and Technical — with healthcare-specific framing for ePHI, medical devices, ransomware, and third-party risk. About ten minutes. No email required to see your score.
- Mapped to HIPAA Security Rule 45 CFR §164 + 2024 NPRM
- Maturity scored Initial → Optimized per safeguard family
- Scoring runs locally in your browser
- Optional written report + 30/60/90 plan on request
Administrative Safeguards Physical Safeguards Technical Safeguards
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What it covers
Three safeguard families. Fifteen honest questions.
Built around the threat picture we actually see in healthcare engagements: ransomware on EHR-adjacent infrastructure, business email compromise leading to PHI exposure, and medical devices that complicate every patch cycle. The score gives leadership a place to start the conversation with the Privacy Officer and the Security Official.
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Administrative Safeguards
Risk analysis, workforce training, access management, contingency planning, and the policies OCR will ask for first.
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Physical Safeguards
Facility access, workstation use, device and media controls — the physical perimeter around ePHI and medical devices.
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Technical Safeguards
Access control, audit logs, integrity, transmission security, and the controls OCR examiners verify in evidence.
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Is this the same as an OCR audit?
No. OCR audits use the OCR Audit Protocol and exercise documented evidence against every applicable specification. This is a fast self-check meant to surface the obvious gaps a covered entity should fix before a self-assessment, an OCR investigation, or a HITRUST engagement.
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Does this address ransomware and medical devices?
Yes. The Technical Safeguards domain includes immutable backups and incident response, and the Physical Safeguards domain includes a medical-device inventory question. Healthcare is the most attacked sector in the US; the assessment is calibrated for that reality.
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Does it reflect the 2024 NPRM updates?
Yes. MFA, encryption, audit logging, and incident-response questions are written to the direction of the 2024 NPRM — explicit MFA, mandatory encryption defaults, and tested contingency plans — so closing those gaps stays useful when the rule finalizes.
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Do I need to give an email address?
No. The assessment runs entirely client-side. If you want a written report and a remediation roadmap from our team, you can request one at the end — but the score itself is yours immediately.
About this HIPAA cybersecurity assessment
What this assessment measures — and how covered entities use it before an OCR audit or BAA renewal.
This HIPAA cybersecurity readiness assessment is built around the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR Part 164, Subpart C) administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) examines during HIPAA audits and breach investigations. The questions cover the same control areas OCR scrutinizes most heavily in 2025-2026 enforcement actions: risk analysis (§164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)), workforce sanctions, access management, audit controls (§164.312(b)), integrity controls, transmission security, and Business Associate management. The assessment also incorporates the HITRUST Common Security Framework v11 control mapping that many healthcare systems and digital-health vendors now require from their downstream service providers.
Scoring runs locally in your browser — nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly request a written report. The output maps to a four-tier maturity scale that translates cleanly into the HHS OCR risk-analysis maturity expectations and the HITRUST level structure, so the result is usable in both audit-defense and partner-diligence conversations.
How healthcare security teams typically use these results
Three patterns dominate: (1) annual risk analysis baseline — §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) requires a documented risk analysis; this assessment produces the structural baseline that the formal analysis builds on; (2) BAA renewal evidence — covered entities and business associates increasingly require maturity scores as part of vendor diligence; (3) incident-response preparedness check — after the Change Healthcare and Ascension breaches reset healthcare cyber-insurance underwriting, carriers now require self-assessed security maturity scores as part of renewal.
What to do next
Cyberuptive serves hospital systems, physician groups, dental and behavioral-health practices, digital-health vendors, and the business associates serving all of the above with HIPAA-aligned managed cybersecurity programs. Our Managed Detection and Response stack produces the audit-control evidence required by §164.312(b), our 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service handles the continuous monitoring that satisfies §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(D) on regular review of information-system activity, and our penetration testing services produce the periodic technical evaluation evidence (§164.308(a)(8)) OCR auditors expect to see in your evidence pack.
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