The Problem
Virtual Care Extends Beyond Your Security Perimeter
Patient data generated during a virtual encounter rarely stays inside a single system. Session recordings, chat transcripts, clinical notes, intake forms, remote monitoring data, and AI-generated summaries move across multiple platforms and vendors after the encounter ends.
Session Data Flows Downstream
Session recordings, chat logs, clinical notes, and patient-generated data often flow into documentation platforms, EHRs, analytics systems, and third-party applications with security controls that may differ from the originating platform.
Personal Devices Create New Exposure Points
Patients access care from personal devices, home networks, and unmanaged environments that sit outside traditional healthcare security controls.
AI Workflows Create New PHI Risks
AI documentation, triage, summarization, and care-coordination tools continuously ingest patient data. Traditional access controls were not designed to govern how PHI moves through agentic and AI-powered workflows.
HIPAA Safe Harbor
A Breach of Properly Encrypted PHI May Not Be a Reportable Breach
If protected health information is lost, stolen, or accessed by an unauthorized party, properly encrypted data remains unreadable and unusable. HHS guidance is explicit: encrypted PHI does not trigger breach notification requirements. That means a security incident does not automatically become a reportable breach. The result can be reduced breach liability, lower cyber insurance costs, and a dramatically different outcome for your organization.
“Protected health information (PHI) is rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals if one or more of the following applies: electronic PHI has been encrypted as specified in the HIPAA Security Rule… such encryption renders the breach notification provisions of the HITECH Act inapplicable.”
No Public Disclosure
No 60-day notification clock, no HHS portal listing, no press release.
Reduced OCR Exposure
Demonstrated safeguards reduce regulatory and enforcement exposure.
Lower Insurance Premiums
Record-level encryption may qualify for carrier premium credits.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Seald Healthcare actually do?
Seald Healthcare encrypts patient data at the record level before it reaches third-party systems and attaches access policies that remain with the data wherever it goes. You decide who can access each record, under what conditions, and for how long, and you can revoke that access at any time, even after the data has been shared. The result is that PHI remains readable only to the people and systems you authorize, across every vendor, cloud, and workflow.
Does Seald Healthcare have access to our data?
No. This is enforced by architecture, not policy. Seald Healthcare does not receive your patient data in readable form. The application keys that decrypt records remain on your side, which means we cannot access your data even if we wanted to.
If one of our vendors is breached, are our patients still exposed?
Not the way they are today. When a vendor stores patient data in plaintext, a breach of that vendor exposes every record. With Seald Healthcare, the vendor holds only ciphertext and does not hold the keys, so a breach of their environment reaches data that remains unreadable. Under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule (45 CFR §164.402), properly encrypted PHI with keys held separately is not considered unsecured PHI. A breach that reaches only encrypted data may not be a reportable breach at all. That can mean no notification campaign, reduced regulatory exposure, and a dramatically different outcome for your organization.
Will Seald Healthcare slow down our claims processing or clinical workflows?
No. Encryption uses AES-256, which is hardware accelerated on modern processors. Cryptographic operations add microseconds, not milliseconds. In practice, network and application performance dominate workflow latency, not encryption.