Full platform access at zero cost. If your work email ends in .edu or .gov, you get instant access — no card, no trial timer, no upsell.
Check eligibility →We believe students and research are the future of healthcare innovation. But the institutions training them often don't receive the funding necessary to protect the patient data their work depends on. So we're closing that gap. If you're a U.S. university or research institution, the full HIPAA Certify platform is yours — at no cost, no asterisks, no upsell.
— Carl B. Johnson, CISO & Chief Learning Officer, HIPAA Certify
Four reasons HIPAA training belongs at every U.S. academic institution working with health data.
Studies using identifiable health data fall under HIPAA, not just clinical care. Most researchers don't realize until an audit.
IRB approval and the Common Rule overlap directly with HIPAA's Privacy and Security Rules. Boards increasingly ask for proof.
NIH and HRSA awards require documented data-protection training for personnel handling PHI.
Universities are top targets for ransomware and data theft. Trained personnel are the cheapest, most effective defense.
Identical to what our paying organizations use. No feature caps. No reduced module library.
Takes under 60 seconds. If your email qualifies, your organization is provisioned the moment you submit.
"Our IRB asked for documented HIPAA training across the research team. We had eleven people enrolled and completing modules within an hour. The CSV export went straight into our compliance binder."
— Research Operations Manager, R1 university (verified review)It's free. No card required, no trial timer, no upsell at month two. The same platform our paying organizations use — full module library, unlimited trainees, audit logs, certificates.
Students and researchers are the future of healthcare innovation. Academic institutions often don't have the budget to match their data-protection responsibility. We'd rather contribute than wait for federal funding to catch up.
The free program is limited to .edu and .gov addresses. If you're at a qualifying institution but stuck with a different domain, contact our team for manual review.
Instant. The moment your form passes validation, your organization is provisioned, your admin verification email is sent, and you can start adding trainees right after you verify.
Yes. Every trainee who completes a course gets a downloadable certificate of completion — the same one paid customers receive.
For now, yes. HIPAA is U.S. regulation, and the program is intended for U.S. academic and government institutions.