--- title: HIPAA compliance for web apps: A practical guide | daily.dev description: Building healthcare web apps requires HIPAA compliance baked into the architecture from the start. The three core HIPAA rules (Security, Privacy, and Breach... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2cyinhfv3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HIPAA compliance for web apps: A practical guide | daily.dev og:description: Building healthcare web apps requires HIPAA compliance baked into the architecture from the start. The three core HIPAA rules (Security, Privacy, and Breach... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2cyinhfv3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2cyInHFv3.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HIPAA compliance for web apps: A practical guide **[Appwrite](https://daily.dev/sources/appwrite)** · [@eldad](https://daily.dev/eldad) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building healthcare web apps requires HIPAA compliance baked into the architecture from the start. The three core HIPAA rules (Security, Privacy, and Breach Notification) demand technical safeguards including strong authentication, role-based access control with least privilege, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging, and Business Associate Agreements with any vendor touching PHI. Modern distributed architectures expand the compliance boundary to include cloud services, APIs, third-party tools, and deployment pipelines. Appwrite is presented as an open-source backend that provides centralized auth, backend-enforced permissions, encrypted storage, and self-hosting options to help teams implement these safeguards, though it explicitly notes that no platform replaces proper governance and operational discipline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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