Healthcare practice: a secure patient-portal rebuild on a HIPAA-aware stack
Situation
The practice ran a legacy patient portal that no longer got vendor updates and had grown into a compliance liability. They needed a rebuild that kept all patient data inside HIPAA-eligible infrastructure, supported a 5-person clinical team, and could be handed off cleanly to their internal IT vendor at the end.
Approach
We scoped a Laravel application on a HIPAA-eligible hosting stack with signed BAAs across hosting, email, and form processing. We mapped every data flow that touched PHI and wrote it down. We built role-based access control, audit logging, and a hardened login flow, plus a clean admin surface for non-technical staff.
Outcome
The new portal launched on schedule. PHI never left HIPAA-eligible services. The practice owns the source code, hosting accounts, and a written runbook covering everyday operations and breach response. Their internal IT vendor took over day-to-day maintenance at handover with no transition gap.
Representative engagement. We have withheld the client identity for privacy. The numbers above are from this specific project. We do not promise the same outcome on a different one.