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Show HN: TrueVault.io | A HIPPA compliant backend for your healthcare app

13 pointsjason_wang5 comments

URL: TrueVault.io

TrueVault is Parse for healthcare apps. We handle the HIPAA technical safeguards for you so you don't have to.

Love to get your feedback on the concept, the site, and anything else the comes to mind.

A couple of notes:

Knowing that YOU audit things is nice, but I also want you to be audited by a 3rd party in some formal context (SSAE, ISO27000, whatever).

You guys are apparently really early, but if I'm going to build a HIPAA app, and you're the ones holding my data, we're going to have to sign a legally binding flowdown agreement: that's not usually compatible with 'click to sign up' style stuff. Have you had a legal team look at how that process is supposed to work?

Are you actually hosted on AWS (I know the marketing page is Heroku, but I understand that doesn't mean the actual app is)? Have you signed a business associate agreement with your cloud provider, if you're using one?

In fact, there's no mention of legal anything anywhere on your site (SLA, ToS, etc.) I assume some of this is behind the customer signup link? It really needs to be out front - anybody doing HIPAA has (as you should know!) pretty intense legal/regulatory issues to make sure are contractually guaranteed.

And, beyond all that, and this might just be me: I have no fucking clue what your system provides? It looks like it's an HTTP data store, but that could mean a million things. Is it more like S3 or something like Redis?

That said, the site is good looking! If you want to put out 'rapid start' type stuff, you should probably have significantly more api and other information out on the public page (assuming it's behind the signup link).

* On my 1920px wide screen, your banner message stretches to the edges. It makes it really hard to read.

* The spinning gear for 'Rapid Setup' really distracts me. Animation is good when used well (perhaps to direct people to the sign up form?) but this looks like it is not well thought out.

* The features panels have blank space underneath them. It looks weird and incomplete. You should make their heights consistent and the height should be set to that of the tallest panel.

* The scrolling threshold for the menu banner appearing is too high - it feels unnatural. I think it should appear earlier. Is there another site that uses the concept that feels more natural, so you can copy their timing?

Sorry, no comments on the actual product as I'm not in your target market.

Very interesting. Been seeing a need for something like this for quite a while, both as a developer in the health IT space as well as someone who has had to sign BAA's and work within HIPAA guidelines in large organizations, often rendering them inflexible with modern technology.

I signed up and am really interested in hearing more such as what the time line looks like. In short, my company is a group of clinicians + developers.