Why Laravel needs a HIPAA host, not a generic one
Laravel is where custom healthcare software usually gets built: patient portals, intake, scheduling, internal tooling. Custom means nobody has audited it but you.
Custom code, no shared assumptions
An off-the-shelf CMS has thousands of eyes on it. Your Laravel application has yours. That makes the platform underneath the part that should be a known quantity: patched, isolated, logged and backed up without you having to think about it.
Queues, jobs and logs carry PHI too
A queued job payload, a failed-job row and an application log line can each contain patient data. They live in the same environment, under the same encryption and retention baseline as the database, rather than somewhere nobody thought to look.
A BAA before the first deploy
The Business Associate Agreement is signed within 24 hours on managed tiers, before your application handles anything real. Getting the paperwork done first is considerably easier than retrofitting it around a system already in production.
Where our responsibility ends
Stated plainly, because knowing this before an incident is worth more than discovering it during one.
We run
- The AWS account, VPC and network isolation
- The operating system, patching and hardening
- PHP, the web server, the database and TLS
- CloudFront, the WAF, encryption, audit logging and backups
- Monitoring and infrastructure incident response
You run
- Your Laravel application, its packages and its migrations
- Framework and dependency updates, unless scoped with us
- Authentication, authorisation and what your code does with PHI
- The APIs and services your application integrates with
If a problem turns out to be the server, PHP or the infrastructure, open a ticket and we take it. If it is inside your application, we tell you what we found and hand it back with recommendations.
HIPAA hosting vs standard hosting
A $10 shared plan is not slightly less compliant; it is categorically different. Most mainstream hosts will not sign a BAA for shared hosting at any price.
Standard Hosting
Basic web hosting
HIPAA Compliant Hosting
Healthcare-grade security