Technology and Security for Healthtech
Patient trust is the product. Protect it in every release.
Healthcare technology carries the most sensitive personal data there is, and it is increasingly the target of attackers who know that providers cannot afford downtime. Telehealth platforms, hospital management systems, diagnostic apps and health-data exchanges must prove to patients, hospitals and regulators that data is protected at every step, while still shipping the features clinicians ask for.
Our healthtech work spans compliance readiness for HIPAA and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, penetration testing of patient-facing web and mobile applications, secure integration with electronic health record systems and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission ecosystem, and the DevSecOps pipelines that keep all of it auditable as the product grows.
What Healthtech Teams Are Up Against
The problems below come up in almost every healthtech engagement we take on. Recognising them early is most of the work of solving them.
Overlapping privacy regimes
HIPAA applies when you serve US covered entities, DPDP Act applies to Indian residents’ data, and enterprise hospital customers add their own security requirements. Each expects specific technical and administrative controls.
Interoperability without exposure
Integrating with hospital systems, labs and national health registries through HL7 FHIR APIs widens the attack surface. Every integration point needs authentication, authorisation and logging done properly.
Patient-facing apps under scrutiny
Telehealth and patient apps handle identity, appointments, prescriptions and payments. Weak session handling or insecure storage on a phone becomes a reportable breach.
Availability as a clinical requirement
A booking or records system that is down affects care. Reliability engineering, backups and tested recovery are patient-safety controls, not IT preferences.
Proving compliance to enterprise buyers
Hospital groups and insurers run vendor risk assessments before signing. A penetration test report, policy set and evidence of monitoring shorten procurement cycles.
How We Help
Each of these maps to one of our services, delivered by the same team so nothing falls between vendors.
HIPAA and DPDP readiness
Risk assessment, policy set, access control, encryption, audit logging, breach-notification procedures and business associate agreements, with evidence organised for customer due diligence.
Testing of patient portals, mobile apps and APIs
Manual penetration testing aligned to OWASP and MASVS, including authorisation checks between patients, clinicians and administrators, and secure-storage review on Android and iOS.
Secure patient and clinician apps
Flutter, React Native or native apps with secure storage, certificate pinning, consent flows and accessibility built in, plus app-store compliance for health data declarations.
Fast, accessible web platforms
Next.js portals and marketing sites with WCAG accessibility, strict security headers, consent management and performance that works on low-end devices and poor connections.
Auditable delivery pipelines
Security scanning, signed releases and environment controls that produce the change evidence HIPAA and enterprise customers ask for.
Typical Engagements
- HIPAA gap assessment and remediation for a telehealth platform selling to US providers
- Penetration test of a patient app and its APIs before a hospital group rollout
- DPDP Act consent and data-retention implementation for a diagnostics booking platform
- Secure FHIR integration layer for a health records product
- Reliability and backup overhaul for a clinic management system
Healthtech Questions, Answered
Do we need HIPAA if we only operate in India?
HIPAA applies when you handle protected health information for US covered entities or their business associates. Indian operations fall under the DPDP Act and sector guidance. Many Indian healthtech companies need both because their customers are in both markets.
Can you test a live clinical system safely?
Yes, with a plan. We test a staging copy where one exists, restrict production testing to read-only and agreed windows, exclude any technique that could affect availability, and coordinate with your clinical operations team.
Will you sign a business associate agreement or NDA?
Yes. Confidentiality agreements are standard before any engagement, and we sign business associate agreements where HIPAA requires them.
How do you approach ABDM integration?
We build the integration layer around the ABDM sandbox specifications and FHIR profiles, with consent handling, tokenised identifiers and logging designed in, then support the certification steps.
Tell us about your Healthtech project
Share what you are building or what an auditor, partner or customer is asking for. We reply within 24 hours with a clear next step.