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HubSpot Customers Can Now Use HubSpot Products in Line with HIPAA Regulations
HubSpot customers with HubSpot Enterprise now have the capability to enable the storage of standard sensitive data within HubSpot. This feature allows HubSpot customers to use HubSpot products in line with HIPAA regulations, providing indispensable privacy and security protections.

What Does HIPAA-Compliant Data Storage Lead To?
HIPAA-Permitted Sensitive Data Storage
A Unified Customer Record for Marketing, Sales, and Service Teams
By storing confidential customer data in HubSpot’s Smart CRM, companies across regulated industries can take full advantage of HubSpot’s customer platform to power their go-to-market strategy.
Across go-to-market, each team can better manage legal, security, and regulatory compliance with comprehensive audit logging, advanced authentication features, inactive session timeout, account security recommendations, per-tenant application-level encryption, and more.
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SmartBug's Key Pieces of Information to Know
SmartBug's approach of "when our clients win, we win" is supported by our dedication to being innovators who provide open, honest, and transparent information.
We believe we have a duty and obligation to our clients (and future clients!) to share publicly available information after we have understood how it impacts our clients and the market.
SmartBug is known as a pioneer in the HubSpot ecosystem regarding data that falls under HIPAA, such as the "Ensuring HIPAA Compliance With Your Digital Marketing Communications" article published in Healthcare Business Today.
Sensitive Data Supported
Sensitive data includes:
- CRM object properties, including manual update, import, export, and properties API
- CRM activities
- CRM objects API
- List creation
- Workflows
- Search
- Reporting
- Forms
- CRM attachments added to records manually via notes, email forms, and sensitive file properties

Highly Sensitive Data Supported
Highly sensitive data includes:
- Full bank account numbers
- International bank account numbers (IBAN)
- Tax return information
- Bank statements
- Full Social Security numbers (SSNs)
Relevant Industries
With the complexities of HIPAA property data, protected health information (PHI), and the organizations that regularly work with this data, the following industries are a good fit for this feature set:
- Healthcare providers (including private practices)
- Health insurers
- Medical billing companies
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Senior living organizations
SmartBug's HubSpot Recognitions:
The Elite tier of HubSpot’s Solutions Partner Program recognizes agencies that achieve the highest standards of client service and success in the inbound marketing space. As HubSpot’s 2024 North America Partner of the Year and the world’s highest-rated HubSpot partner, SmartBug is further solidified as one of HubSpot's top-performing global solutions partners.






Benefits Across Regulated Industries
By storing confidential customer data in HubSpot’s Smart CRM, companies across regulated industries can now take full advantage of HubSpot’s customer platform to power their go-to-market strategy. (Source: HubSpot)
- Improve lead generation by collecting sensitive data where customers have consented to its use for marketing purposes, such as website forms.
- Safely segment audiences, send targeted marketing campaigns, and power marketing automation, without cobbling together workarounds to properly handle protected data.
- Personalize prospecting with a complete view of prospects to create more relevant connections and build more pipeline.
- Manage complex sales processes with healthcare organizations where clinical data, patient volume metrics, and compliance documentation must be securely collected and tracked.
- Create a single customer record for help desk reps by storing sensitive data required for delivering tailored service, such as booking appointments.
- Access patient history and medical records for support inquiries.
- Handle billing disputes with access to protected financial information.
- Provide personalized service using stored demographic and preference data.
SmartBug's HubSpot HIPAA Functionality Implementation
Sensitive data requires the utmost attention to ensure compliance. SmartBug offers custom-tailored solutions to fit the needs of each organization. The items below provide a starting place for a conversation about how we can support the proper setup and optimization of HubSpot's HIPAA compliance features, enabling you to safely manage protected health information.