BD Emerson's HIPAA Audit Services

BD Emerson's HIPAA audit services test whether your organization's practices align with the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. Our auditors work independently of our consulting and technology teams, examine the evidence your systems already produce, and deliver findings ranked by exposure rather than by how easy they are to fix.
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Definition

HIPAA audit: a deep dive into healthcare compliance

BD Emerson's HIPAA security audits are thorough and comprehensive, designed to report on your controls to your customers to build trust in your product and your organization. These audits serve as a beacon for healthcare providers, demonstrating your unwavering dedication to the protection of patient health information (PHI).

  • In-depth policy scrutiny: We examine your privacy and security policies, ensuring they not only align with HIPAA benchmarks but also reflect the best practices in safeguarding PHI.
  • Assessment of data access and sharing protocols: Our audits probe into your processes for patient data access and sharing, ensuring they conform to HIPAA’s Privacy Rule while respecting patient rights and provider responsibilities.
  • Analytical review of security safeguards: We critically analyze your security mechanisms to validate their alignment with the HIPAA Security Rule, focusing on the protection of electronic PHI from unauthorized access, interference, or breaches.
Services

BD Emerson's HIPAA audit services

Our auditors work independently of every other practice in the firm, and we do not audit environments we helped build. We test your controls against the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, examine the evidence behind each one, and report what we found.
Scope and risk-based test planning
In-depth policy and documentation review
Technical safeguards testing
Breach notification testing
Findings and the audit report

Scope and risk-based test planning

We start by fixing scope in writing: which entities, which systems, and which flows of protected health information fall inside the audit, and what period the testing covers.

We then rank the in-scope controls by the exposure a failure would create, so testing effort concentrates where an exception would matter most. Scoping determines what we test and how. It does not involve designing or changing your controls.

In-depth policy and documentation review

We read your privacy notices, consent forms, business associate agreements, and security policies against the Rules, then test whether what they describe is what actually happens.

A policy that meets the standard on paper but does not match the system behind it is a finding, and we report it as one. We do not draft or revise your documents, because the firm testing them should not be the firm writing them.

Technical safeguards testing

We inspect the technical safeguards the Security Rule requires: unique user identification, automatic logoff, audit controls, integrity controls, transmission security, and encryption at rest and in transit across every system holding electronic PHI.

Testing works from what your systems record. We sample access logs, review identity provider configuration, and check encryption settings directly rather than accepting a description of them.

Breach notification testing

The Breach Notification Rule sets specific obligations, and we test whether you can meet them. That means examining your documented breach risk assessment process, the incident records you already hold, and whether past incidents were assessed, logged, and notified within the timeframes the Rule sets.

Where notification deadlines were missed or an assessment was never documented, it goes in the report as a finding.

Findings and the audit report

Each finding names the rule or implementation specification it maps to, the evidence we examined, and the exposure it creates, ranked by that exposure rather than by how easy it would be to close.

The report states what we tested and what we found. It does not prescribe fixes, and it does not certify you, because HHS certifies no one as HIPAA compliant.
Benefits

Advantages of a HIPAA audit

01

Assurance of compliance

Our audits confirm your full compliance with HIPAA, instilling confidence and peace of mind for both healthcare providers and their patients.

02

Identification of protection gaps

Through proactive detection of vulnerabilities, we help you initiate timely interventions, fortifying your defenses against privacy and security threats.

03

Reputation strengthening

By demonstrating a steadfast commitment to patient privacy, our audits bolster the trust and confidence placed in you by patients, referring providers, and the wider community.
04

Breach risk reduction

We take a proactive stance in safeguarding against potential breaches of PHI, significantly reducing risks and the potential costs associated with them.

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Schedule a HIPAA audit

Tell us which entities and systems handle protected health information and who is asking for assurance, and we will scope the audit in writing before any testing begins. Organizations facing HIPAA and SOC 2 at the same time can run both on one audit calendar.
How We Work

What a HIPAA audit examines

We test these areas against the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, and report what the evidence shows in each one.
Our Advantage

Why choose BD Emerson’s HIPAA audit services

Our HIPAA audits give healthcare organizations an independent read on where their program actually stands:

Independent of your vendors

We audit the evidence your systems already produce, and we hold no reseller or implementation relationship with the platforms we test. What you run stays your decision, and our findings rest on the evidence alone.

Scoped to your environment

We work directly with your privacy officer, security lead, and IT team so findings are understood by the people who have to act on them. Each finding names the rule it maps to and what evidence would close it.

Healthcare audit experience

Our auditors have tested HIPAA programs at covered entities and business associates. We know which safeguards typically fail, which evidence proves a control operated, and where a policy says one thing while the system does another.
Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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