Industry benchmark · Healthcare
Healthcare website security benchmarks — how hospitals & telehealth score
Healthcare is the most heterogeneous sector we benchmark — telehealth startups score in the high 80s while regional hospital systems sometimes land in the 50s. HIPAA covers the handling of ePHI but doesn't directly mandate web headers, so many hospital systems prioritize EHR security and let public marketing sites lag. Telehealth platforms that bill themselves as HIPAA-compliant tend to be far ahead of the legacy provider websites.
Typical healthcare score range
60–88/ 100
Approximate range based on common findings in this sector. For live data, scan any of the representative sites listed below.
What they tend to get right
TLS is universally modern on patient-portal subdomains because HIPAA's transmission-security requirement effectively forces it. Cookie attributes on authenticated portals are typically correct. Email auth tends to be mature for sender domains used for appointment notifications.
Where they fall short
CSP coverage is inconsistent — telehealth platforms ship it; many hospital marketing sites don't. Server banners frequently leak the CMS or hosting platform. Permissions-Policy is uncommon. Older hospital sites occasionally still serve mixed content. Patient-portal CORS configurations are sometimes overly permissive to support partner integrations.
Common findings in this sector
Findings that show up frequently across healthcare sites we’ve scanned, ranked by approximate prevalence.
- ~65% of sites
Marketing sites often skip CSP; telehealth platforms tend to ship it
- ~70% of sites
Rare across both hospital and telehealth sites
- ~35% of sites
WordPress and Drupal banners common on hospital marketing sites
- ~30% of sites
PHP/ASP.NET version disclosure remains common
- ~40% of sites
When present, often allows wildcard or unsafe-inline for embedded video/imaging
Scan a representative healthcare site
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Regulatory context
Healthcare sites handling ePHI fall under the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR §164.312). The technical-safeguard subset that an external scan can produce evidence for is mapped at /compliance/hipaa-website-security.
Where does your site fall?
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