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HIPAA-Compliant Chat: How to Build Secure Messaging for Telemedicine Apps

calendar_today April 15, 2026 person domain getstream

TL;DR: Any chat message pairing a patient identifier with health information is PHI, making your entire messaging infrastructure a HIPAA compliance surface. HIPAA’s three rules translate into concrete engineering requirements: role-based access, encryption, tamper-evident audit logs, and PHI-safe push notifications. Building compliant chat from scratch needs 2-3 dedicated engineers; a HIPAA-eligible API like Stream compresses

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