Institution Password Control

This question asks whether healthcare organizations that host your application on their own servers can change all passwords, including technical service accounts used by the application itself (like database passwords). It's about ensuring the healthcare organization has complete control over their security, without any 'hardcoded' passwords they can't change or secret accounts they don't control.

Healthcare organizations hosting applications internally need complete password control to meet their security policies and respond to potential breaches. Any password they can't change represents a permanent security vulnerability and HIPAA compliance risk. This requirement is non-negotiable for on-premise deployments - hidden or unchangeable passwords will immediately fail security reviews.

Developers often hardcode service account passwords or encryption keys into applications, making them impossible to rotate without code changes. Another critical mistake is having 'maintenance' accounts with fixed passwords for vendor support, which creates permanent backdoors that violate healthcare security requirements.