Healthcare
Healthcare ransomware is now a clinical-safety event under the proposed HIPAA Security Rule update, while clinical AI lands on every leadership agenda and payers demand HITRUST certification in more contracts. We deliver HIPAA Security Risk Analyses that survive audit, run HITRUST certification programs, and respond to ransomware with clinical-continuity priority.
Overview
HIPAA, ransomware resilience, and clinical AI — without breaking the EHR.
The Pressure
In healthcare, a cyber event is now a patient-safety event — and regulators are codifying it.
- HHS-OCR enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule is intensifying, with the December 2024 NPRM pushing toward mandatory MFA, encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, and 72-hour incident response.
- Ransomware against hospitals is now treated as a clinical-safety event under HHS guidance — sector incidents have made that operational reality.
- Vendor-concentration risk reset board-level expectations after a major clearinghouse outage cascaded across providers nationwide.
- Clinical AI (ambient documentation, clinical decision support, revenue-cycle automation) is on every leadership agenda alongside FDA AI/ML SaMD oversight and state AG enforcement.
- Payer-required HITRUST CSF certifications (r2 and e1) appear in more contracts each renewal cycle.
The Gap
The compliance artifacts on file have rarely been tested against how a breach actually unfolds.
- HIPAA Security Risk Analyses have never been pressure-tested against an OCR audit, and EHR security configured at go-live is never re-reviewed.
- Backups exist but immutability and air-gap claims have not been validated against the actual ransomware playbook.
- Clinical AI is adopted department by department with no institutional governance framework — legal and compliance learn of deployments after they are live and ahead of oversight capacity.
- Medical-device (IoMT) inventories are incomplete because biomedical engineering and IT use different data models.
- Generic IR firms cannot prioritize clinical-system restoration the way patient safety demands.
How We Help
We integrate the clinical, payer, and regulatory dimensions instead of treating them as separate workstreams.
- Deliver HIPAA Security Risk Analyses that survive OCR audit and HITRUST CSF certification programs (r2 and e1).
- Run Technology & Security Audits mapped to the HHS HPH CPGs and Applied AI governance that accounts for FDA SaMD oversight and payer-contract requirements simultaneously.
- Operate SOC, Identity Operations, and Endpoint Management 24/7 with EHR-aware tuning (Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, Meditech).
- Engineer Backup & DR tested against the real ransomware playbook — restoration proven without the ED going on diversion.
- Pre-position a clinical-continuity-priority Breach Retainer, led by people who have run security inside hospital systems.
Pass the OCR audit, hold HITRUST certification, and recover clinical systems fast enough to keep patients safe.
Capabilities
What we deliver
HIPAA & HITRUST Programs
HIPAA Security Rule programs, HITRUST CSF certification readiness, third-party assessments.
EHR Cybersecurity
Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athena — security operations specific to your EHR.
Medical Device Security
IoMT inventory, segmentation, and lifecycle security for clinical devices.
Ransomware Resilience
Tested DR, immutable backups, breach retainers tuned for clinical-continuity priorities.
M&A Cybersecurity
Diligence and integration for hospital and physician practice acquisitions.
340B & Pharmacy Compliance
For health systems: 340B program integrity, DSCSA requirements.
Protect patients. Protect uptime. Protect data.
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