"Building a Healthcare SaaS — Completely Underestimated HIPAA & Compliance… Need Advice" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #24. By TopSquirrel9, 1 score, 0 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
Building a Healthcare SaaS — Completely Underestimated HIPAA & Compliance… Need Advice
- Rank
- 24
- Subreddit
- r/saas
- Author
- TopSquirrel9
- Score
- 1
- Comments
- 0
- Posted
- 3/29/2026, 9:53:00 PM
- Snapshot
- 3/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Links
Content
I’m currently building a healthcare finance SaaS application and honestly… I’m realizing just how complex this space really is. Coming into this as someone new to app development, I expected technical challenges—but what’s really slowing me down is everything around healthcare regulation, especially HIPAA compliance. There are so many questions I’m trying to navigate: \- What actually qualifies as PHI in edge cases? \- When do I need a BAA and with whom? \- How are others structuring their infrastructure to stay compliant (hosting, logging, access controls, etc.)? \- How early should compliance be “built in” vs layered later? \- What are the biggest mistakes people make early on that come back to hurt them? I’m trying to be intentional about building this the right way from the start, but it feels like one wrong move could create major issues down the line. If you’ve built or worked on a healthcare SaaS product before, I’d really appreciate any advice, lessons learned, tools, ...