Small-practice HIPAA software versus a HIPAA platform with expert services, independent assessments, and room to grow into SOC 2.
Where we are different
- Services included, not referred out. Gap assessments, risk analysis, implementation, and a Virtual HIPAA Officer are delivered by our own healthcare compliance team.
- Independent assessment reports. We produce a third-party assessment report you can hand to an enterprise customer, an insurer, or an investor. A self-service platform cannot issue one about itself.
- Built beyond the small practice. Abyde is strongest in independent practices. SuperHIPAA runs the same control set from a two-provider clinic to a multi-entity group — and upgrades to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR without a second vendor.
- Transparent, locked pricing. Published tiers and a 3-year price lock, so renewal is not a renegotiation.
Side by side
| SuperHIPAA | Abyde | |
|---|---|---|
| HIPAA platform | Yes | Yes |
| Primary market | Practices through mid-market and BAs | |
| Gap assessment delivered in-house | Yes | |
| Risk analysis delivered in-house | Yes | |
| Independent assessment report issued | Yes | |
| Virtual HIPAA Officer | Yes | |
| Implementation / remediation services | Yes | |
| Additional frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) | Yes, same control set | |
| Published pricing | Yes | |
| Multi-year price lock | 3 years | |
| Free migration | Yes |
When to choose Abyde instead
- You are an independent practice that wants guided HIPAA basics and nothing else
- OSHA compliance in the same tool matters more to you than multi-framework growth
- You have no business-associate customers asking for third-party validation
We would rather you buy the right thing than churn in month four.
What buyers actually get wrong
Small practices tend to evaluate on price and hand-holding. Both matter — but the questions that predict whether you survive a payer audit or an OCR desk review are: Is our risk analysis current and asset-based? Can we produce evidence with dates? Can we show who acknowledged which policy version? Do we have a signed BAA for every vendor touching ePHI?
Score both vendors on those four. The evaluation scorecard below does it for you.
Start where you are
Take the free readiness assessment — 24 questions, about eight minutes, no call required. You get a scored report identifying which required specifications you are missing and what to fix first. If it turns out you are further along than you thought, we will tell you that too.