HIPAA-Compliant AI: How to Use LLMs Safely in Healthcare

Security is the number one concern for AI in healthcare. To stay HIPAA-compliant, you must ensure that your AI provider signs a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and that your data is not used to train global models.

Architecture for Safety

We recommend a 'Privacy Gateway' pattern. Before data leaves your network for a cloud AI service, it passes through a service (often implemented in Mirth or a custom microservice) that redacts PHI or tokens it so that the AI only sees what it needs to see.