HIPAA Risk & Readiness Diagnostic
Find the real gaps, understand what matters most, and leave with a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Assess. Organize. Automate.
Practical HIPAA privacy and security systems
for small healthcare organizations.
Turn HIPAA requirements into a clear, manageable system for identifying risk, organizing compliance work, and automating the reporting and tracking that usually gets buried in spreadsheets.
The real problem
Most small healthcare organizations do not have a HIPAA knowledge problem. They have a systems problem.
The rules may be documented, but the work itself is often fragmented. One person knows where the BAAs live. Someone else maintains the training spreadsheet. Risk findings sit in another file. Incident documentation is somewhere else.
The problem is not usually a complete absence of compliance work. The problem is that nobody has a clear, usable system for managing it.
How we help
Assess. Organize. Automate.
Three services, meant to be taken in order or on their own, depending on where an organization already stands.
HIPAA Privacy & Security Operating System
Turn policies and requirements into a practical system for ownership, evidence, remediation, vendors, incidents, and reporting.
Compliance Automation & Dashboards
Replace repetitive spreadsheets and manual reporting with practical workflows, dashboards, and lightweight tools.
Who this is for
Built for organizations without a large internal compliance team.
Good fit
- Small physician and specialty practices
- Behavioral health organizations
- Digital health and healthcare technology startups
- Healthcare service businesses
- Business associates handling PHI
- Organizations without a large internal compliance team
Probably not the right fit
- Large enterprise transformation programs
- Managed security services
- Penetration testing or vulnerability scanning
- 24/7 security operations
- Deep cloud engineering
- Staff augmentation or fractional executive staffing
How we work
The same philosophy, applied to compliance.
01
Understand
Start with the actual problem, not a generic checklist.
02
Assess
Look at how privacy and security requirements are actually being handled.
03
Design
Build the smallest practical system that makes the work manageable.
04
Automate
Remove repetitive tracking and reporting where it makes sense.
Why this approach
Compliance should be usable.
- Operational reality first. Requirements get connected to the workflows people already use, not a theoretical checklist.
- Risk, prioritized. A short list of what matters most, not a giant issue log nobody works through.
- Sized to the organization. Built around the team and budget that actually exist, not an enterprise-sized program.
- Evidence that's easy to maintain. Documentation designed to stay current, not a one-time snapshot.
- Automate the repetitive parts. Tracking and reporting work gets removed where it makes sense, not bolted on.
Led by
An attorney and CISSP with 25+ years across privacy, security, and compliance.
Branch & Bracket's healthcare compliance work is led by an attorney and CISSP with more than 25 years of experience across healthcare privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, governance, enterprise risk, third-party risk, incident response, and analytics.
That background includes developing healthcare privacy and security assessment methodologies, building automated assessment and remediation tools, designing executive risk dashboards, and creating systems that turn fragmented compliance information into practical decision support.
The focus here is intentionally smaller organizations: practical systems, clear priorities, and tools that can actually be maintained without an enterprise-sized compliance department.
See how this played out for one privacy team: the Privacy Navigator case study →
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Are you providing legal advice?
Branch & Bracket provides consulting on privacy, security, governance, risk, compliance operations, data, and workflow design. A consulting engagement does not create an attorney-client relationship unless separately agreed in writing.
Can you certify that we are HIPAA compliant?
No. HIPAA compliance is an ongoing obligation, not a one-time certification. The work is designed to identify risks, gaps, and practical improvements.
Do you perform penetration testing or vulnerability scanning?
No. We can incorporate the results into your risk and remediation process, but those technical testing services are outside the scope of this practice.
Can you work with our IT provider?
Yes. The goal is to strengthen the overall privacy and security system, not replace existing IT support.
Do you replace our Privacy Officer or Security Officer?
No. The work is designed to help those roles operate more effectively, not permanently take them over.
Do you only work with Microsoft tools?
No. The solution should fit the client's environment.
Do you work with very small practices?
Yes, when the compliance problem is substantive enough to justify a consulting engagement.
Start a conversation
Tell us what's unclear, manual, or difficult to manage.
Tell us what's unclear, manual, or difficult to manage in your HIPAA privacy and security program. We'll tell you honestly where to start.
Prefer email? info@branchandbracket.com
A consulting engagement does not create an attorney-client relationship unless separately agreed in writing. This is not a substitute for a HIPAA compliance certification, which does not exist as a formal designation under HIPAA.