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What does NIST CSF alignment mean day to day?
NIST CSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, gives us a structured way to think about security across five areas: identifying risks, protecting against them, detecting threats, responding when something happens, and recovering quickly if it does.
In practical terms, our security program isn’t ad hoc. Every control WaitWell has maps back to a recognized standard. We’re asking whether we can demonstrate, against an established benchmark, that we’re doing the right things. For government clients especially, NIST alignment signals that we speak their language and take security as seriously as they do.
What does HIPAA compliance cover, and what’s WaitWell’s status?
WaitWell is HIPAA compliant, meaning we meet the federal requirements for handling protected health information, or PHI. In practice, this covers how we store, transmit, and control access to any data that could be linked to an individual’s health.
This matters most in healthcare-adjacent settings, like clinics or hospital outpatient departments, that use our platform to manage patient flow and appointments. HIPAA compliance means those organizations can deploy WaitWell with confidence that patient information is handled according to federal law. We also have Business Associate Agreements in place with healthcare clients, which HIPAA requires whenever a vendor handles PHI on behalf of a covered entity.
How is patient and customer data actually protected?
A few layers work together here. Every client on WaitWell has a completely isolated database, so your data never sits alongside another organization’s, and that separation has been independently verified through penetration testing.
All data is encrypted, whether it’s moving between systems or sitting in storage, using the same standards banks and government agencies rely on. Access is tightly controlled through role-based permissions, so staff only see what they need to do their job and nothing more. Organizations can also add single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, using SAML to integrate with tools like Azure and ADFS, or federate through Google and Microsoft. And how much personal information gets collected in the first place is entirely up to the client: they can choose to collect as little as a ticket number, with no personal information at all, and can anonymize or purge PII from the database at any time.
On top of that, our servers run in parallel across separate AWS data centers in North America, so service keeps running even if one location is affected, and we monitor our systems around the clock for threats, run daily automated security scans, and bring in an independent firm every year to try to find vulnerabilities before anyone else does. In our most recent test, they found zero critical or high-risk issues.
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