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HIPAA Managed IT Services in Houston
A managed IT partner for Houston-area healthcare practices — HIPAA-aware every day, not just at audit time.
HIPAA is not a yearly project. It's how an MSP has to operate every day — MFA on every system touching PHI, documented access controls, encrypted and tested backups, breach-response readiness, and a signed BAA that actually reflects who does what. Mako Logics delivers managed IT services to Houston-area mental-health, dental, multi-location medical, and clinical-trial-participating practices under HIPAA Security Rule requirements from day one of the engagement, not after the first OCR questionnaire arrives.
What’s included
The specifics.
- ✓Signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with every engagement — real BAA, not boilerplate
- ✓MFA enforcement on every PHI-touching system (EHR, patient portal admin, M365, remote access)
- ✓Documented HIPAA Security Rule administrative, physical, and technical safeguards
- ✓Encrypted endpoints, encrypted email for PHI, and access logging on every file share
- ✓Immutable, off-site, tested-restore backups for EHR, document drives, and mailboxes
- ✓External-sender banners, DMARC enforcement, phishing simulations, and role-based security training
- ✓Breach-response playbook with 60-day HHS notification clock awareness and tabletop exercises
- ✓Annual Security Rule policy review, risk analysis refresh, and BAA inventory
- ✓Clinical-trial-data segmentation and CRO-sponsor questionnaire support
- ✓OCR audit readiness — evidence collected continuously, not scrambled the week of the request
Who needs this
Mental-health clinics, dental practices, multi-location medical groups, clinical-trial sites, dental-imaging shops, and healthcare-adjacent operations across Houston and The Woodlands. Particularly valuable for practices that accept third-party BAAs from larger partners (health systems, CROs, payors) whose security questionnaires increasingly demand specific evidence, not vague attestations.
FAQ
HIPAA Managed IT Services in Houston — common questions.
Do you sign a real BAA, or is it boilerplate?+
Real BAA. Every Mako healthcare engagement includes a signed Business Associate Agreement that reflects the actual services we perform, data we touch, and obligations we carry. We'll send a sample before contract signing so your compliance counsel can review the language.
How is this different from the /services/cybersecurity/compliance page?+
The compliance page covers audit readiness as a framework — SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC — treated as standalone engagements. This page covers ongoing managed IT delivered to a healthcare practice under HIPAA constraints every day. Same rules, different delivery model. Many practices need both: readiness work up front, managed IT ongoing.
Which EHR and practice-management platforms do you support?+
Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Practice Fusion, Kareo, NextGen, and most of the major multi-specialty systems. For specialty EHRs (behavioral health: TherapyNotes, SimplePractice, Valant; dental: Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Curve), we're familiar with the major platforms and will be honest about depth on the less common ones.
Can you support clinical-trial participation?+
Yes — it's actively in scope for one of our published case studies (Woodlands Family Psychiatry). CRO-sponsor security reviews expect documented trial-data segmentation, separate access controls, and audit logging. We design and operate that alongside your normal clinical IT.
What happens if we have a breach?+
Call us. For existing clients it's included: we execute the incident-response plan, preserve evidence, work the 60-day HHS notification clock, and coordinate with your compliance counsel and cyber carrier. For non-clients, we can still be retained for IR work — but ongoing protection is always cheaper than incident recovery.
How do you handle multi-location practices?+
Secure site-to-site connectivity, centralized identity (single directory, single MFA policy), and shared file-system controls so a clinician can work from Clinic A or Clinic B without re-authenticating into each site's isolated IT island. Records stay in the EHR; the IT environment supports that cleanly.
What does 'operationalized HIPAA' actually mean?+
Not a binder on a shelf. Real operational controls: MFA logs proving it's enforced, access-review records showing stale accounts are actually closed, backup-restore test results with timestamps, training completion records per employee, DMARC enforcement reports, and a current risk analysis updated whenever the environment changes. When OCR or a partner auditor asks, the evidence is ready the same day.
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