The Problem
You Become a Concentration Point for PHI
Clearinghouses, RCM vendors, healthcare platforms, analytics systems, and business associates aggregate PHI from dozens or hundreds of organizations. A single breach can expose data belonging to every customer you serve.
One Platform, Every Customer at Risk
Feeds from providers, payers, and partners pool inside a single platform. That concentration is exactly what makes healthcare vendors some of the highest-value targets in the industry. One intrusion can affect every customer at once.
Perimeter Tools Protect Systems, Not Records
Firewalls, endpoint protection, and cloud security keep attackers out. Once a credential, application, or AI agent is compromised, the PHI in your datastore is often plaintext and ready to read.
The Breach Is Yours to Carry
As a business associate, the breach notification obligations, OCR exposure, customer fallout, and reputational damage are yours. One processor breach can cascade into notifications and liability across every customer you serve.
Policies in Action
Examples of What You Can Enforce
Health technology companies and business associates manage PHI across internal teams, customer environments, integrations, and sub-processors. Seald Healthcare turns those access requirements into record-level decryption policy, so each person, service, and workflow can access only the customer data it is authorized to process. Start inside your own platform, then extend the same controls across downstream integrations and partners.
Learn More About Policy StudioPriya Shah ([email protected]) can decrypt records for one named customer only, from a managed device on the corporate IP range with MFA verified, until 6:00 PM Eastern today. At 6:00 PM, access expires automatically.
The engineering role has no decryption authority for production PHI. Attempts to decrypt production records from development, test, or staging are denied.
Elevated access is time-boxed, with decryption authority expiring automatically at the end of the authorized window.
Customer success can decrypt account and contact fields only. Clinical and claims data do not decrypt for the customer success role.
ClearBridge Integration can decrypt only the records authorized for its connection, from its registered environment with MFA verified, and is limited to a set number of decryptions per connection.
Rampart Data Services cannot share decryption authority with downstream vendors.
Each customer's data decrypts only for that customer's authorized workflows. Access to one tenant does not grant decryption authority to another tenant's records.
Foundry Sub-Processor can decrypt the authorized dataset for 30 days, after which access is revoked automatically.
HIPAA Safe Harbor
A Breach of Properly Encrypted PHI Is Not a Reportable Breach Per HHS
If protected health information is lost, stolen, or accessed by an unauthorized party, properly encrypted data remains unreadable and unusable. Under HHS guidance, properly encrypted PHI is not considered unsecured PHI when the decryption key or process has not also been compromised, and therefore does not trigger HIPAA breach-notification requirements. That means a security incident does not automatically become a reportable breach. The result can be reduced breach liability, lower cyber insurance costs, and a dramatically different outcome for your organization.
“Protected health information (PHI) is rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals if one or more of the following applies: electronic PHI has been encrypted as specified in the HIPAA Security Rule… such encryption renders the breach notification provisions of the HITECH Act inapplicable.”
No Public Disclosure
No 60-day notification clock, no HHS portal listing, no press release.
Reduced OCR Exposure
Demonstrated safeguards reduce regulatory and enforcement exposure.
Lower Insurance Premiums
Seald Healthcare’s demonstrable controls may qualify for carrier premium credits.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Seald Healthcare do?
Seald Healthcare protects patient data itself, not just the systems around it. Each record is encrypted individually, with decryption authority kept separate from the data. Records stay encrypted wherever they are stored, accessed, or shared and decrypt only during authorized use under policy for an approved person, device, application, or AI agent.
What happens if a vendor or cloud environment is breached?
Seald Healthcare is designed so that compromising the environment storing the data does not, by itself, provide the authority required to decrypt the protected records. Patient data remains encrypted, and decryption still requires an authorized request that satisfies the active policy.
What does zero-knowledge mean?
Seald Healthcare manages key infrastructure separately from the patient data, but cannot independently decrypt customer PHI. Each data key is protected under key material controlled by your organization, keeping decryption authority separate from the systems storing or transmitting the data.
How does Policy Studio work?
Policy Studio is powered by Marlow, the AI that operates Seald Healthcare. Marlow analyzes your BAAs, vendor contracts, and security requirements and drafts record-level access policies. Your organization reviews and approves each policy. Seald Healthcare then enforces it cryptographically on every decryption request.