EDGE ASPECT · private practice infrastructure

Free email can’t sign a BAA.

If clients reach you at a gmail.com or yahoo.com address, your practice has a HIPAA gap — one most solo practitioners were never told about. We close it for you, without changing how you work.

The gap, in plain language

HIPAA requires a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with any service that handles your clients’ information — and email counts. A client’s email address alone, connected to your practice, is protected information.

Free consumer email services do not offer BAAs. Not Gmail’s free tier, not Yahoo, not Hotmail. That means every appointment confirmation, every intake exchange, every “running 10 minutes late” sits with a service that has no HIPAA obligations to you or your clients.

The usual fixes put the burden on you: become your own IT department, or scatter your practice across more subscriptions. We built a third option.

Your own private practice server — set up for you, owned by you

Edge Aspect sets up a private server for your practice — in your name, in your own Amazon Web Services account — and runs it for you: secure email at your own professional address, calendar and contacts, encrypted storage, and always-on security monitoring.

Edge Aspect works alongside your EHR (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, and others) — it replaces your free email and scattered files, not your clinical tools.

How it works

  1. A 20-minute setup call. We create your Amazon account together — it’s in your name, with your card — and you accept Amazon’s healthcare agreement with one click.
  2. We build your practice server. Domain, email, calendar, storage, security — configured to HIPAA Security Rule specifications, in your account.
  3. We move you in. Your mail history, contacts, and calendar come across; your phone and computer are set up; your clients learn your new professional address. Then we keep it healthy, updated, and watched — permanently.

Transparent pricing — two bills, no markup

Edge Aspect service — setup, migration, monitoring, updates, evidence reports, support (includes 3 people) $149 / mo
Your own Amazon Web Services account — paid directly to Amazon, at their prices, no markup from us ~$50–80 / mo
One-time setup & full migration (waived for the founding cohort) $499

Additional practice members $19/mo each. Unlimited clients — we would never charge you per client.

All-in, it costs your practice about one session per month.

Founding cohort — ten practices

Edge Aspect is new, and I’m building it deliberately: a founding cohort of ten practices, onboarded personally, setup fee waived, with a direct line to me. In exchange, you help shape what this becomes. If that trade appeals to you, reserve a spot — or just book a 15-minute conversation first. I’d genuinely like to hear how you handle this side of your practice today.