HIPAA

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is U.S. legislation providing data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information. HIPAA compliance is required for healthcare providers, health plans, and their business associates handling protected health information (PHI).

HIPAA is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Compliance, Healthcare, Privacy, and Security.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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ComplianceHealthcarePrivacySecurity

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hipaa Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Reference

Reference

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hipaa
name: HIPAA
description: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is U.S. legislation providing data privacy and security
  provisions for safeguarding medical information. HIPAA compliance is required for healthcare providers, health plans, and
  their business associates handling protected health information (PHI).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hipaa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hipaa.png
tags:
- Compliance
- Healthcare
- Privacy
- Security
created: '2025'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hipaa-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/index.html
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com