HIPAA Compliant Hosting for healthcare apps
Run open-source healthcare and medical apps on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure, fully managed by Elestio. Dedicated VMs, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logs, automated backups, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, and a shared responsibility model built for handling PHI.
Certifications and controls
Definition
What is HIPAA compliant hosting?
HIPAA compliant hosting means running applications that store or process protected health information (PHI) on infrastructure that meets the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards required by the HIPAA Security Rule. Compliance is never a single product: it is a shared responsibility between the hosting provider and the covered entity or business associate.
Important: no hosting provider can make your application "HIPAA compliant" on its own. Elestio provides HIPAA-eligible infrastructure and managed controls (encryption, access control, logging, backups). You remain responsible for how your application handles PHI. We can discuss a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for eligible healthcare deployments. New to the topic? Read our HIPAA compliance guide.
The HIPAA Security Rule
The safeguards Elestio helps you meet
PHI hosting requires administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. Here is how Elestio covers the technical layer.
Encryption of PHI
TLS 1.3 in transit and encryption at rest on dedicated volumes, so protected health information is never exposed in plaintext.
Access control and isolation
Dedicated single-tenant VMs, private encrypted networking between services, SSH key access, and role-based controls. No noisy neighbors on shared hardware.
Audit logging and monitoring
Service and access logs plus 24/7 monitoring, so you can demonstrate who accessed what and detect anomalies.
Backups and disaster recovery
Automated encrypted backups with point-in-time recovery, stored in the jurisdiction you choose, to satisfy availability and contingency requirements.
Patching and hardening
Managed OS and application updates, security patches, and hardened baselines reduce the vulnerability surface that HIPAA audits scrutinise.
Data residency choice
Pin PHI to a specific region across 9 cloud providers, including EU-only providers for combined HIPAA and GDPR workloads.
Shared responsibility
Who is responsible for what
Elestio manages
- HIPAA-eligible dedicated infrastructure
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Physical data-center security (via SOC 2 / ISO 27001 providers)
- Managed patching, backups, monitoring
- Infrastructure audit logging
You manage
- How your application handles PHI
- Application-level access and user permissions
- Workforce training and policies
- Business associate agreements with your own vendors
- Risk analysis and documentation for audits
Managed HIPAA hosting
A managed platform for medical apps
Deploy secure medical and healthcare apps without operating servers yourself.
400+ open-source apps
Deploy Nextcloud, Mattermost, Metabase, Paperless-ngx, databases and more on HIPAA-eligible dedicated VMs, with CI/CD and private networking.
Encryption and isolation by default
Single-tenant VMs, TLS 1.3, encryption at rest, and an encrypted private network between your services, out of the box.
Zero-maintenance operations
Elestio handles updates, SSL renewal, backups, and monitoring, so your team focuses on the healthcare product, not the infrastructure.
SLA-backed expert support
99.95% uptime SLA and 24/7 support from an infrastructure team that works with regulated customers such as Bosch and Atos.
Host PHI on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure
Dedicated VMs, encryption, backups, and managed controls. Free trial, no credit card.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is Elestio HIPAA certified?
There is no official "HIPAA certification" issued by any government body. Elestio provides HIPAA-eligible infrastructure with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, encryption, access controls, audit logging, and backups. HIPAA compliance is a shared responsibility: Elestio secures the infrastructure layer, and you remain responsible for how your application handles PHI.
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Can I get a Business Associate Agreement (BAA)?
We can discuss a Business Associate Agreement for eligible healthcare deployments. Contact sales to review your use case and the specific PHI workloads you plan to host.
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What does "shared responsibility" mean for HIPAA?
Elestio manages the infrastructure safeguards: encryption, dedicated VMs, physical security through certified data centers, patching, backups, and monitoring. You manage the application layer: how PHI is stored and processed, user access, workforce policies, and your own risk analysis and documentation.
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Is protected health information encrypted?
Yes. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest on dedicated volumes. Access is restricted to your single-tenant VM over SSH keys and an encrypted private network.
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Can I host healthcare data in the EU for HIPAA and GDPR at the same time?
Yes. You can pin your deployment to EU-owned providers (Hetzner, Netcup, Scaleway) to combine HIPAA-eligible controls with EU data residency for GDPR. See our GDPR compliant hosting and sovereign cloud hosting pages.
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Which apps can I run on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure?
Any of 400+ open-source applications, including Nextcloud, Mattermost, Metabase, Paperless-ngx, and managed databases, deployed on dedicated VMs with the managed security layer applied.
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