Recipe: HIPAA-readiness checklist

NOT legal advice

This checklist helps engineering teams evaluate whether their deployment of Meridian aligns with the technical safeguards required by the HIPAA Security Rule. It does not replace a qualified compliance assessment or legal review.

1. Access Control

▸Unique user IDs assigned to every person accessing ePHI
▸Automatic logoff after 15 minutes of inactivity
▸Role-based access enforced at the API layer

2. Audit Controls

▸Immutable logs of all access, modification, and deletion of ePHI
▸Logs retained for a minimum of 6 years

3. Integrity

▸Cryptographic checksums on all stored ePHI records
▸Tamper-detection alerts on integrity violations

4. Transmission Security

▸TLS 1.3 enforced on all ingress and egress
▸End-to-end encryption for data in transit between services

Meridian provides the technical primitives — encryption, audit logging, access controls — but your organization is responsible for configuring them appropriately and signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) where required. Consult your compliance officer before handling ePHI in production.