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BAA (Business Associate Agreement)

The contract a vendor signs to take on HIPAA obligations for the PHI it handles for you.

A BAA is what actually makes using a cloud or AI vendor HIPAA-compliant. Without a signed BAA, sharing PHI with the vendor is a violation — regardless of what its website says.

Ask for the BAA before a trial with real patient data, and check whether it covers subprocessors such as AI model providers.

From our data: Only 35 of 445 software products publicly state that a BAA is available.

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