A HIPAA-safe alert pipeline checklist (8 controls)

Short summary

Alert pipelines in healthtech commonly leak PHI to third-party systems without BAAs. This checklist maps 8 controls (tokenization, encryption, audit trails, access controls) to HIPAA's Technical Safeguards (45 CFR 164.312), with concrete implementation patterns. Use it to audit stack-trace leaks, webhook payloads, and log aggregator access.

• •Identify 5 common PHI leak paths: stack traces, webhooks, slow-query logs, application logs, health-check responses
• •Implement 8 controls mapped to HIPAA 45 CFR 164.312 Technical Safeguards: tokenization, encryption, access control, audit trails, authentication
• •Use per-tenant key vaults and pgcrypto to enforce encryption across the entire alert pipeline

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