AI agent governance for healthtech.
The moment an agent can reach a system that holds PHI, HIPAA's Security Rule is in play. HiveKey gives you minimum-necessary scoping, in-path enforcement, and an attributable audit trail for everything an agent does.
You're shipping an agent that touches patient records, scheduling, or messaging — and you need to answer a customer, a BAA, or an auditor on how that access is controlled.
What an agent can reach here.
PHI
Patient records, clinical notes, and identifiers an agent can read, write, or send.
Minimum necessary
HIPAA expects agents to touch only what the task requires — not the whole record.
Egress
Email, exports, and integrations where PHI could leave to an unapproved destination.
A verdict on every action, before it runs.
Each call an agent makes gets decided in the path — allowed, blocked, or held for a human — and written to one trail.
mail_send → patient summary to external domain block Egress to an unapproved destination is blocked before it sends.
records_read (assigned patient, in scope) allow Minimum-necessary access for the task — allowed and logged.
bulk_export 12,400 records approve Mass access is held for a human, not run on a prompt.
One policy, applied to every agent.
Minimum-necessary by default
Scope each agent to the precise PHI-bearing actions its job needs. Anything you don't grant is invisible — it can't be called or discovered.
Stop PHI walking out
Guard blocks unapproved egress — email, exports, third-party calls — in the path, before any data leaves.
Audit controls, satisfied
An immutable record of every action against PHI systems, attributable to an accountable owner — the audit trail §164.312(b) expects.
The conversation we keep hearing.
An agent can read patient data now — how do we prove minimum necessary?
What did this agent actually access last month? Nobody can say.
Our hospital customer's BAA review is asking about AI access controls.
Evidence for the audits you already face.
HiveKey produces the access, enforcement, and audit evidence these frameworks expect for AI agents. Not legal advice — a head start on the controls.
Put every agent your healthtech team runs under one policy.
See HiveKey scope, guard, and block a live action on your own agents — 30 minutes, no slides.