Data protection oversight built for healthcare and life sciences
Patient data lives across EHR systems, imaging archives, labs, and life sciences research platforms, all expected to be protected and recoverable the moment they’re needed. Bocada gives your team one system of record for backup and storage health, so protecting patient care and satisfying HIPAA’s Security Rule aren’t two separate jobs.
One view across every system that touches critical data
Backup, storage, and virtualization health across every department and facility, in one place.
Consolidate backup monitoring across every hospital department, facility, lab, and life sciences system into one dashboard, from EHR-adjacent infrastructure to imaging and lab systems
Connect that same dashboard to your virtualizers, storage systems, and ticketing platform, so backup monitoring sits inside one comprehensive view of your data protection operations, not off to the side of it
Normalize data across your entire backup and storage stack, cloud, on-prem, hybrid, so recency and location are always known, not reconstructed during an incident
See at a glance which system or facility is at risk, instead of learning it from a clinical or lab team after the fact
In practice: a data protection lead sees imaging, lab, and EHR-adjacent systems side by side, instead of piecing together status from three different teams.
Prove HIPAA data protection, retention, and compliance without the audit scramble
HIPAA’s Security Rule doesn’t ask if you backed up ePHI. It requires a documented, tested plan to restore it, and proof that the plan works.
Maintain the audit trail HIPAA’s contingency plan standard expects: retrievable exact copies of ePHI, and a documented, tested procedure to restore it
Generate the compliance reports auditors and your own compliance team ask for, automatically, on a recurring schedule, instead of assembling evidence after a breach or audit finding
Give your compliance and security teams self-service access to audit-ready reports, so a HIPAA risk assessment doesn’t turn into a week of manual data-pulling
In practice: a HIPAA risk assessment request gets answered with a scheduled report, not a week of pulling data by hand.
Find systems that aren’t visible to you
New systems, from telehealth platforms to lab equipment, expand the environment faster than backup policy, or compliance oversight, can track.
Cross-reference your CMDB or asset inventory against actual backup activity to catch systems that were spun up and never added to a backup policy
Extend the same discipline to vendor-managed and third-party clinical systems your organization is still accountable for under HIPAA, even when a vendor manages the infrastructure
Get a documented, audit-ready record of every resource you’ve reviewed and consciously decided not to protect, and why
In practice: a telehealth platform spun up last quarter shows up in the audit, instead of surfacing for the first time during an incident.
Automate response to strengthen cyber resilience
Less time spent on manual triage is what makes systems resilient enough to withstand a real attack.
Detect the kind of backup anomaly that signals ransomware already at work, automatically, without a person watching every job
Open, update, and close tickets automatically as issues are found and resolved, to create an audit trail for every backup failure
Recover fast enough that a security incident doesn’t become a patient care incident, since downtime in a clinical environment isn’t measured in dollars alone
In practice: a ransomware-pattern anomaly on the core banking backup opens a ticket the moment it’s detected, not after a customer-facing outage is reported.
Prevent storage from causing compliance issues
Running out of capacity doesn’t just cost money. It’s how a HIPAA contingency plan fails exactly when it’s needed.
Get alerted automatically as a system approaches maximum capacity, so a backup job doesn’t fail simply because there was no space left
Forecast storage needs using AI and your organization’s actual growth patterns so capacity planning is based on real data, not a guess
Track cost and usage trends across cloud and on-prem storage in one place, so a growing footprint doesn’t become a budget surprise, or the reason ePHI can’t be restored when it matters
In practice: an imaging archive approaching capacity gets flagged and expanded weeks before it could have blocked a restore.
Explore Bocada for healthcare and life sciences data protection compliance solutions today
