HIPAA-Compliant Chat

Build dependable HIPAA-compliant chat at scale

Equip healthcare teams with secure, realtime communication, without compromising on privacy or compliance.
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Secure, HIPAA-compliant data

Safeguard patient information with end-to-end encryption, SOC 2 certification, and HIPAA-aligned architecture - no breaches, no compromises.

Realtime chat that keeps care moving

Deliver instant, ordered, and guaranteed messages that keep providers and patients connected when it matters most.

Instant, reliable updates

Ensure care teams receive critical alerts and data in milliseconds, maintaining responsiveness and patient safety.

Availability at scale

Healthcare systems can't go offline. Ably's global edge network provides 99.999% uptime, even during peak loads.

Secure, compliant messaging

Empower doctors, nurses, and patients to collaborate safely through HIPAA-compliant realtime chat.

  • Encrypted, compliant messaging between providers and patients.
  • Presence indicators to show who's online.
  • Group messaging with permission controls.
  • Set user permissions to delete or edit sent messages.
Secure, compliant messaging

Doctor-patient virtual care chat

Enable secure telemedicine consultations with integrated realtime chat that keeps patient data protected.

  • Private 1:1 chat between providers and patients.
  • Typing indicators show responsiveness during consultations.
  • Message read receipts confirm patients received care instructions.
  • Edit or delete messages while maintaining HIPAA audit trails.
  • Guaranteed message ordering for accurate medical conversations.
Doctor-patient virtual care chat

Care team collaboration chat

Coordinate complex care across multi-disciplinary teams with secure group chat and presence indicators.

  • Group chat for multi-provider case consultations.
  • Presence indicators show which team members are available.
  • Department-to-department secure messaging.
  • Shift handoff communications with message history.
  • Room reactions for quick acknowledgments.
Care team collaboration chat

chat building blocks

Interactions. Reactions. All in realtime.

Chat APIs for building large scale chat applications.

Send/receive chat messages

Send/receive chat messages

Implement 1:1 conversations, group chats and global chat rooms using channels to organize the message traffic.

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Edit and delete a chat message

Edit and delete a chat message

Edit the contents of a chat message, or enable soft and hard delete of the chat message.

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Message batching

Message batching

Reduce the costs of high-scale, high frequency chat messaging apps.

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Chat room reactions

Chat room reactions

Ability to react to the entire room, with server-side aggregated counts of those reactions.

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Typing indicator

Typing indicator

Show when a chat participant starts and stops typing with a typing indicator.

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Moderation

Moderation

Keep your chat safe in minutes using out-of-the-box integrations with AI moderation platforms, or bring your own tools.

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Online status

Update your UI according to their realtime presence state.

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Message reactions

Ability to add and remove a reaction to a chat message.

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Authentication

Manage access controls for participants using authentication tokens and capabilities.

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Ably for Enterprise

Get unmatched expertise paired with a host of value-adding options to keep your business-critical applications running at optimal performance.

Premium support24x7 support and incident management
HIPAA BAACompliance for your healthcare solution.
SOCII compliantInformation security taken care of.
99.999% uptime
CNAME
Limitless capacity
Firehose integrations
Dedicated cluster
SSO and SCIM provisioning
Architectural guidance
US/EU routing of data
Enterprise observability and analytics

Composable realtime. Your vision. Your approach.

Combine Ably's products to power seamless realtime data and engagement across your HealthTech platform.

AblyPub/Sub

Flexible APIs and message guarantees for building any realtime interactive experience at serious scale.

Ably Pub/Sub
Ably Pub/Sub
AblyChat

Rapidly launch the chat features with APIs you’ll love. Optimized to handle massive user loads.

Ably Chat
Ably Chat
AblyAI Transport

Drop-in realtime that keeps every agentic session continuous, controllable and always in sync.

Ably AI Transport
Ably AI Transport
AblyLiveObjects

Realtime sync for application state across multiple users and devices at any scale.

Ably LiveObjects
Ably LiveObjects
AblySpaces

Create collaborative environments in a few lines of code, with our purpose-built APIs.

Ably Spaces
Ably Spaces
AblyLiveSync

Seamlessly sync your database and frontend, publishing changes reliably to millions of clients.

Ably LiveSync
Ably LiveSync

Pricing built for scale

Usage-based pricing

Granular control over your costs with per-minute billing or MAU pricing options.

Volume discounts

The more you use the platform, the lower the consumption rates become.

Cost optimization

Maximize your ROI with platform features designed to reduce consumption.

engineered to perform

The definitive realtime experience platform of the internet

Performance

We focus on predictability of latencies to provide certainty in uncertain operating conditions.

6.5ms

message delivery latency

30B+

connections opened monthly

Reliability

Designed to preserve continuity of service we ensure sufficient redundancy at a regional and global level.

7+ years

of 100% uptime

99.999999%

message survivability

Scale

Elastic and highly-available. Ably is built to handle extreme scale and high concurrent connections.

2B+

connected devices per month

2T+

API operations per month

Network

Truly distributed global edge network. Delivers a globally consistent experience to users.

700+

points of presence

11

globally distributed regions

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