Privacy
What Practice Pillar collects, who handles it and how long records stay. Last reviewed October 19, 2026.
Visiting these pages
- These pages set no cookie. They load no analytics, advertising or tag manager.
- Fonts, images and the home page film come from Practice Pillar's own address, and the content security policy allows no other source. The film is fetched only when you press play.
- The pricing estimate, the hire-cost calculator and the Good Faith Estimate due-date calculator run in your browser. The numbers and dates you enter are not sent or stored.
- The status page shows whether Practice Pillar and its database are answering. It shows nothing about you or any practice.
- The demo request form sends what you type to Practice Pillar's support address by email, through Resend. Practice Pillar keeps a record that the message was sent, with its subject line, which names your practice, and not the message itself.
- Vercel serves these pages, so it receives your request, including your network address.
Client information
- When a practice keeps client information in Practice Pillar, the practice is the covered entity under HIPAA. Hyrax LLC, doing business as Computing America, which provides Practice Pillar, is its business associate.
- The practice's own Notice of Privacy Practices governs how it uses and shares its clients' information. Practice Pillar does not replace that notice.
- A client who wants a copy of a record, a correction or a list of disclosures asks the practice. The practice answers from its record in Practice Pillar.
- Practice Pillar never sells client information. It shares none with a payer or a platform beyond what a claim needs, and it never uses client information to train a model.
- A screen that takes client information stays closed until every service it depends on has signed a business associate agreement.
Pricing shows which parts are open to practices now.
What a practice keeps in Practice Pillar
- Staff accounts, with their sign-in details. Passwords are stored only as a scrypt hash.
- Signing in sets a cookie that keeps you signed in, and scripts on the page cannot read it. A session lasts at most 8 hours.
- Records of how the practice runs, such as the planner, scorecards and meetings. They hold nothing that identifies a client, initials at most.
- Inquiries, which hold who a person is and how to reach them. Every time someone opens an inquiry, the audit log records it.
- The clinical record and billing, for a practice that uses them. Clinical and billing text is encrypted field by field, and each practice has its own keys.
- An audit log of every change and every refused attempt, kept by record ID and never by description. The application can add to it and cannot edit or delete it.
Security has the controls behind each of these.
Who handles it
Each service Practice Pillar runs on, what it handles and whether its vendor has signed a business associate agreement.
- Neon: Every record Pillar keeps, and the audit log. Business associate agreement: signed.
- Vercel: Running the app; every page and form passes through it. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Computing America's media service, on Cloudflare R2: Screen and camera recordings, their transcripts and share links. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Computing America (CRM service), on Vercel and Neon: An inquiry's contact: name, phone, email, consent, notes and the record of who opened it. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Computing America (marketing service): The practice's social posts, ads and tracked links, and their campaign counts. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Twilio, on the practice's own account: Texts to people who contacted the practice, session reminders to a client or, for a minor, to the representatives who agreed to texts, payment links, and the running-late message to a client in the waiting room. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Resend: Invitations, password resets and notices to staff. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Apple, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft push services: A short notice on a staff member's phone or computer that a task, mention, reminder or message is waiting. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Slack, on the practice's own workspace: Plan names, a suggested title and a confirmation sentence, sent to the person who chose Add to Planner; the title they typed and the message's link, received. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon SES: Session reminders, statements, payment links, portal notices and assessment requests. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Resend: A reply to an email the practice sent, an inquiry forwarded to the practice's intake address, kept on a record, and an email to a planner space's task address, made into a task. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- Anthropic, then OpenAI: Answering a question the manual does not cover, and drafting a clinician's profile introduction. Business associate agreement: not signed.
- S3-compatible file storage: Task attachments, documents sent for signature, files a client uploads to an inquiry and documents filed to a client's chart. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- AWS Key Management Service: The keys that seal what a client's chart says about their care. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- A claims clearinghouse, not chosen yet: Sending claims and eligibility checks to payers, and receiving their acknowledgments and payments. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Google Workspace, on the practice's own account: The forms and documents the resource library links to. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Google Calendar, on the person's own account: A task's title and due day, written to the calendar a person chose to connect, and read back when they move it there. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Microsoft 365 Outlook calendar, on the person's own account: A task's title and due day, written to the calendar a person chose to connect, and read back when they move it there. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon Chime SDK: Telehealth sessions between a clinician and a client. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- An e-prescribing partner, not chosen yet: A prescriber writing a prescription in the partner's own screen, and the client's medication list read back from it. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- A card processor, not chosen yet: A client paying a balance by card on the processor's own page. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon Bedrock, in AWS us-east-1: Drafting a progress note from a session's transcript, a dictation or a typed summary, and summarizing a chart for the clinician who opens it. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon Bedrock, in AWS us-east-1: Answering a question about the practice scorecard from its own figures. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- The practice's own meeting-notes service: Drafting meeting notes from a transcript. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon Bedrock, in AWS us-east-1: Running a planner agent on a task, and writing a task's summary or a plan's progress line, from the task's own fields. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Amazon Bedrock, in AWS us-east-1: Reading the figures off the scan of a paper explanation of benefits, which names the client and the claim. Business associate agreement: none on file.
- Computing America's sign-in service holds staff accounts and no client information.
- The processor that collects Practice Pillar's own subscription bill is sent the practice as a business customer, an amount and an invoice reference and nothing about a client.
Keeping and exporting records
- A practice can export every record at any time, and for 90 days after it cancels.
- Each kind of record has a retention period. The law sets the minimum, and a practice can lengthen it.
- Records are archived rather than deleted by hand. A retention run destroys a record only after its period has run, and a legal hold stops it.
Not settled yet
- What happens to a practice's records after those 90 days is not settled yet.
- Not every service on this page has signed a business associate agreement. Until one has, the screens that would send client information through it stay closed.
Questions
Email practicepillar@computingamerica.com with a question about this page. For a client's own record, ask the practice.
Or write to Hyrax LLC, doing business as Computing America, 1400 Preston Rd #443, Plano, TX 75093.
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