How to track hipaa compliance obligations on Starch

HIPAA compliance isn't a one-time project — it's an ongoing set of obligations that compound every time you add a vendor, hire someone new, or change how you handle protected health information. At its core, the workflow means three things: knowing which business associate agreements (BAAs) are in place and when they expire, maintaining a live risk assessment that reflects your actual infrastructure, and having documentation you can produce quickly if you're ever audited or breached. What this looks like in practice varies — a telehealth startup tracking PHI across a dozen SaaS vendors has different exposure points than a benefits platform managing employee health data — but the core problem is the same: compliance obligations are scattered across email threads, shared drives, and one person's memory, and there's no single place to check whether you're covered. On Starch, the result is a compliance workspace where your BAA status, risk items, and remediation tasks are visible in one place. Outstanding agreements surface before they lapse, open risk items have owners and due dates, and your documentation is searchable when you need it — not buried in a folder labeled 'legal stuff 2023.'