HIPAA Compliance Software
A US federal law requiring covered entities and their business associates to protect electronic protected health information through administrative, physical, and technical safeguards.
Rated platforms covering HIPAA
| Rank | Platform | Score | Band | Assessed | Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Sprinto Best overall for a first multi-framework program | 82 | Strong | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
| 2nd |  Vanta Best for breadth of integrations and frameworks | 75 | Strong | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
| 3rd= |  Secureframe Best for federal and defense frameworks | 73 | Strong | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
| 3rd= |  Drata Best for teams that will build custom tests | 73 | Strong | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
| 5th |  Scrut Best for regional frameworks outside the US | 63 | Adequate | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
| 6th |  Thoropass Best for buying the audit and the platform as one engagement | 47 | Limited | Sep 23, 2026 | Scorecard → |
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a US federal law. Its Security Rule requires covered entities and their business associates to implement administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information (ePHI). Covered entities include health plans, healthcare providers, and healthcare clearinghouses. A business associate is any person or organization that handles ePHI on behalf of a covered entity, which includes most software vendors whose products touch patient data.
HIPAA compliance is not certified through a single industry audit in the way SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is. Organizations are responsible for maintaining and demonstrating compliance to the US Department of Health and Human Services. The Office for Civil Rights enforces HIPAA and investigates reported breaches and complaints. Before sharing ePHI with a vendor, covered entities must sign a Business Associate Agreement with that vendor.
The Security Rule’s safeguard categories are administrative (policies, training, access management), physical (facility access controls, device controls), and technical (access controls, encryption, audit controls, data integrity mechanisms). Organizations are required to document their risk analysis and risk management processes.
Technology companies that build products handling ePHI, such as healthcare SaaS platforms, telehealth providers, and clinical data vendors, typically pursue HIPAA compliance documentation to satisfy enterprise customer requirements and reduce liability exposure.
Compliance automation platforms help these organizations map their controls to HIPAA’s safeguard categories, collect evidence from their technical environment, and maintain the documentation that demonstrates ongoing compliance. Several platforms rated here let teams build a single control set that maps to both HIPAA and SOC 2 simultaneously.
Which platforms cover HIPAA
All six platforms rated on The Audit Trail cover HIPAA: Sprinto (rank 1, score 82), Vanta (rank 2, score 75), Drata (rank 3, score 73), Secureframe (rank 3, score 73), Scrut (rank 5, score 63), and Thoropass (rank 6, score 47). See the ranked table for full criteria breakdowns across all eight rubric criteria.