Healthtech on Supabase: patient records and RLS pitfalls that stick
> TL;DR: A patient record needs stricter isolation than a regular SaaS. Common RLS mistakes in young healthtech products.
Why are Row Level Security policies critical for HR SaaS?
A patient record is not a support ticket
In a healthtech product, the access rule isn't "my organization" but "my patient, my practitioner, this treatment, this period". That's finer-grained than a typical B2B SaaS.
What breaks often
The right level of rigor
A healthcare product must be able to answer: who saw what data, when, and why. If the answer depends on an optional application log, that's not enough for HDS-hosted data.
Key Takeaways
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Sources
Editorial analysis based on official vendor, project, and regulator documentation.
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