HIPAA

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: compliance

type:audit

Deep HIPAA Security Rule technical audit mapping code-level findings to 45 CFR sections. Covers administrative safeguards (164.308 -- risk analysis, workforce security, access management, incident procedures, contingency planning), physical safeguards (164.310 -- facility access, workstation security, session timeout, device controls, crypto-shredding), and technical safeguards (164.312 -- unique user IDs, emergency break-glass access, automatic logoff, AES-256 PHI encryption, audit controls with 6-year retention, data integrity checksums, MFA authentication, TLS transmission security, network segmentation). Traces PHI data flows through ingestion, processing, caching, storage, transmission, and disposal. Use when building or auditing healthcare apps, EHR integrations, FHIR APIs, telehealth platforms, or any system handling protected health information.

What this skill does

HIPAA is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the compliance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hipaa/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when building or auditing healthcare apps, EHR integrations, FHIR APIs, telehealth platforms, or any system handling protected health information.

Who uses this skill

The HIPAA skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hipaa
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hipaa/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hipaa/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hipaa/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hipaa/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hipaa\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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