What is SOC 2 Compliance for Healthcare SaaS?

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SOC 2 is an audit standard from the AICPA that evaluates how a service organization protects customer data across security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. For a healthcare SaaS product, a SOC 2 Type II report - covering controls over months, not a single point in time - is usually what enterprise buyers ask for alongside HIPAA compliance, not instead of it.

Overview

SOC 2 is an audit standard from the AICPA that evaluates how a service organization protects customer data across security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. For a healthcare SaaS product, a SOC 2 Type II report – covering controls over months, not a single point in time – is usually what enterprise buyers ask for alongside HIPAA compliance, not instead of it.

Why it matters

HIPAA tells you what US healthcare data law requires; SOC 2 tells a buyer that your engineering and operational controls actually hold up under independent audit. Healthcare SaaS vendors without a SOC 2 report routinely get stuck in procurement, because security teams have no other way to verify the claims made in a sales deck.

How Dotcode applies it

We structure logging, change management, and access review processes to match SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria on SaaS projects, so a future audit doesn’t mean rebuilding half the system.

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