HIPAA-Compliant Remote Access to PHI
Loxada protects healthcare professionals accessing sensitive patient data from home, clinics, or other non-clinical settings.
The Problem
Protected Health Information (PHI) is among the most sensitive and most regulated types of data in any sector. Under HIPAA, healthcare organisations are required to implement safeguards that ensure PHI always remains secure, including when accessed remotely.
However, many clinicians, lab professionals, and administrative staff now work from home, in part-time clinics, or at temporary locations. In these environments, the local network, often a home router, is usually outside IT control. It may be unpatched, misconfigured, or even compromised.
Even if the remote connection uses a VPN or a secure electronic health record (EHR) portal, those tools don’t protect against lateral attacks from compromised devices on the same network. A child’s tablet infected with malware, a poorly secured smart home device, or an attacker spoofing a trusted Wi-Fi network can all be entry points that compromise the integrity of a healthcare worker’s session.
This creates risk not just for data security but for compliance, auditability, and patient trust.
Loxada’s Solution
Loxada provides a secure, HIPAA-aligned method for healthcare professionals to access PHI remotely without relying on the security of their local network.
Our routers are fully managed, tamper-resistant, and designed to create an isolated corporate network regardless of where they’re deployed. Staff connect their work devices to the Loxada router, which then securely transmits data to your infrastructure via an always-on VPN, ensuring that all PHI access occurs over a hardened, monitored, and centrally controlled network path.
Key benefits for HIPAA-covered entities include:
- Physical and logical network separation
- Protecting against threats from other devices on the same local network.
- No technical setup required by the user
- Devices are shipped pre-configured and automatically stay up to date.
- Works with existing EHR systems and VPNs
- Loxada complements your existing remote access stack without needing software agents.
- Policy enforcement by design
Even if the user moves location or resets the device, it reverts to a secure state and maintains HIPAA-aligned protections.
This ensures that PHI access is secure, not just in theory but in practice, wherever your team is working.
Benefits and Use Cases
Loxada is designed to simplify secure remote access for busy healthcare professionals, eliminating the need for complex onboarding and additional device management.
Practical use cases include:
- Clinicians working from home
- Protecting access to EHRs and imaging systems from consumer-grade networks.
- Pathologists and specialists reviewing data from remote labs
- Creating a trusted network path from non-hospital environments.
- Administrative staff accessing patient billing or scheduling platforms
- Maintaining HIPAA compliance even when working from home or in flexible setups.
- Hybrid healthcare teams with rotating in-person and remote shifts
This ensures that both full-time and contract staff can work securely without increasing your organisation’s compliance exposure.
Why It Matters for HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA’s Security Rule requires covered entities and business associates to implement technical safeguards that ensure:
- Access to PHI is controlled and limited
- Data is transmitted securely
- Systems are protected from unauthorised access
- Risk is assessed and mitigated across the entire digital environment
Loxada supports these obligations by enforcing secure access controls, creating segmented network paths, and ensuring that traffic is encrypted from the endpoint to its destination. This helps healthcare organisations:
- Reduce the risk of reportable breaches
- Provide evidence of “reasonable and appropriate” safeguards
- Avoid reliance on user behaviour to maintain compliance
- Demonstrate a strong security posture to patients, regulators, and insurers
With data breaches increasingly leading to fines, lawsuits, and reputational harm, securing the last mile of access is more critical than ever.