Key Takeaways
- Momentum now partners with Vanta, a compliance automation platform, to deliver continuous compliance monitoring across 50+ regulatory frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act.
- Automated compliance replaces periodic manual audits with real-time checks, continuous evidence collection, and integrated monitoring across cloud infrastructure and identity systems.
- Clients work directly with Momentum for implementation, BAAs, support, and invoicing. Vanta powers the automation layer underneath.
- Combined with HealthStack, our open source Terraform modules, compliant healthcare infrastructure deploys in days rather than months.
- For clients operating across multiple frameworks or multiple markets, this reduces compliance management from a recurring engineering burden to a managed service with automated controls.
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Introduction
Compliance has been part of every healthcare product we build. Our HIPAA architecture, GDPR data protection, and ISO 13485 quality management processes cover the technical and organizational safeguards healthcare companies need. HealthStack, our open source Terraform modules, handles the infrastructure layer.
What we did not have was an automated way to manage compliance across frameworks at scale. When a client needs HIPAA and SOC 2 and GDPR, the overhead of tracking controls, collecting evidence, and maintaining audit readiness across all three multiplies fast. Spreadsheet checklists and quarterly reviews do not scale to multiple frameworks or multiple clients.
We partnered with Vanta to close that gap. Vanta is a compliance automation platform that integrates directly with cloud providers, identity systems, and development tools to monitor controls continuously and collect evidence automatically. This article explains what the partnership means in practice, what it changes for our clients, and how it fits into the way we already build healthcare products.
What Vanta brings to our stack
Vanta is one of two dominant compliance automation platforms in the market (alongside Drata). It is an industry standard tool, not a niche experiment. Most companies managing compliance at scale use one of these platforms rather than tracking controls manually.
What Vanta provides:
Automated compliance checks
Vanta integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, identity providers, HR systems, and development tools. It runs continuous automated checks against framework requirements. If encryption is disabled on an S3 bucket or MFA is turned off for a user account, Vanta flags it immediately rather than waiting for the next manual review.
Continuous evidence collection
Instead of scrambling to gather screenshots and configuration exports before an audit, Vanta collects evidence continuously. Cloud configuration snapshots, access control records, encryption status, training completion records. The evidence is timestamped and stored, ready for audit at any point.
Framework support
Vanta supports approximately 50 compliance frameworks. For healthcare, the relevant ones include HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 Type I and II, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and the EU AI Act. Each framework is mapped to specific controls, and a single technical control can satisfy requirements across multiple frameworks.
Document builders and templates
Compliance frameworks require documentation: policies, procedures, risk assessments, incident response plans. Vanta provides pre-built templates and document builders for each framework, with guidance on what auditors expect in each section.
Trust page
Vanta generates a public trust page that shows your current compliance status. This gives your customers (and your customers' customers) verifiable proof that controls are active and monitored, without sharing internal audit details.
Risk management
Built-in risk register, risk assessment workflows, and tracking. Risks are linked to controls, so you can see which compliance requirements are affected when a risk materializes.
What Momentum adds on top
Vanta automates compliance monitoring and evidence collection. It does not build your infrastructure, design your application architecture, or implement the technical controls that make your product compliant in the first place.
That is where Momentum's work begins.
Healthcare-specific architecture. We build HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure, PHI handling patterns, access control systems, and audit logging. Our HIPAA-compliant development checklist covers the technical safeguards layer. Vanta monitors whether those safeguards remain in place; we are the team that puts them there.
HealthStack infrastructure. Our open source HealthStack Terraform modules deploy HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure with pre-configured VPC networking, KMS encryption, CloudWatch logging, IAM access controls, and backup procedures. When Vanta connects to a HealthStack deployment, the automated checks pass from day one because the infrastructure is built to be compliant.
Implementation and gap analysis. Before connecting a client to Vanta, we run a compliance gap analysis: which frameworks apply, where the current state falls short, and what needs to change. We build the remediation plan and execute the infrastructure and application changes. Vanta onboarding comes after the foundation is solid.
Multi-framework management. A healthcare company entering the EU market might need HIPAA (for US operations), GDPR (for European data), and SOC 2 (for enterprise sales). Managing three separate compliance efforts is expensive. Through our Vanta partnership, we manage multiple frameworks from a single platform, with overlapping controls mapped across frameworks to reduce duplicate work.
Single point of contact. Clients work with Momentum. One contract, one invoice, one support relationship. We handle the compliance architecture, Vanta configuration, ongoing monitoring response, and audit preparation. Vanta is the technology platform; Momentum is the partner that makes it work for healthcare products.
Frameworks we support
With Vanta, we can support any of approximately 50 compliance frameworks. Here are the ones most relevant to our healthcare clients:
HIPAA. The baseline for any US healthcare product handling protected health information. We have built HIPAA-compliant systems since our founding, and our compliance page covers how we approach architecture, encryption, access controls, and audit logging.
GDPR. Required for healthcare products serving European users. Health data is a special category under GDPR, requiring explicit consent and additional safeguards. Our GDPR compliance page covers data residency, patient rights infrastructure, and cross-border architecture.
SOC 2 (Type I and Type II). Increasingly required by enterprise healthcare buyers as proof of operational security controls. SOC 2 covers availability, security, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
ISO 27001. International standard for information security management systems. Common in enterprise procurement and especially relevant for companies operating across multiple countries.
EU AI Act. The European regulation for artificial intelligence systems. Healthcare AI products require risk classification, documentation, and conformity assessments.
HITRUST. A healthcare-specific framework that combines HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST requirements. Increasingly requested by US health systems and payers as a procurement requirement.
ISO 13485. Quality management for medical device software. Momentum is ISO 13485 certified, and Vanta's continuous monitoring adds automated oversight to our existing quality management processes.
Additional frameworks include SOC 1, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, and others. If a framework is on Vanta's supported list, we can implement and manage it.
Not sure which framework to start with? Our guide on compliance priorities for healthcare startups covers how to choose based on your market, stage, and buyer requirements.
How it works
The compliance automation workflow has four stages:
1. Compliance gap analysis. We start by identifying which frameworks apply to your product and market. Then we assess your current state: infrastructure, application code, access controls, logging, encryption, documentation, and organizational policies. The gap analysis produces a concrete remediation plan with specific engineering tasks.
2. Infrastructure and application setup. We build or update the compliant foundation. For new products, this typically starts with HealthStack for infrastructure and our standard HIPAA/GDPR architecture patterns for the application layer. For existing products, we execute the remediation plan from the gap analysis, incrementally and with zero downtime where possible.
3. Vanta onboarding and integration. With the technical controls in place, we connect your cloud infrastructure, identity provider, HR systems, and development tools to Vanta. Automated checks begin running immediately. We configure the framework-specific control mappings, set up alerting, and generate the initial evidence baseline.
4. Continuous compliance. Vanta monitors your environment continuously. If a control drifts (encryption disabled, access policy changed, certificate expiring), alerts fire immediately. We handle remediation as part of our ongoing engagement, or provide guidance for your team to resolve. Evidence accumulates automatically, and when an audit comes, the preparation is already done.
For a technical walkthrough of each layer in this stack, see Inside Our Compliance Stack.
Talk to Us
If your healthcare product needs compliance across one or more frameworks, or if you want to move from manual compliance tracking to automated monitoring, reach out. We will scope the work based on your current state, target frameworks, and timeline.
Contact us to discuss compliance automation for your product.
