Industry Perspectives
Analysis and curated insights on systemic risk, emerging threats, and the evolving healthcare risk landscape.
Why GRC Failed the Pandemic. And What We Built Instead.
Slow, siloed healthcare GRC left leaders blind during COVID; adopt continuous monitoring, tiered vendor review, and owned escalation.
Read Post >>The CMS Connection. How Quality Programs Are Quietly Becoming Cyber Programs.
CMS quality now depends on cyber readiness: EHR uptime, vendor resilience, and tested recovery protect patient safety and payments.
Read Post >>AI Vendors Want Your Data. Here Are the Six Questions to Ask First.
Don't share patient data until vendors commit in writing to scope, retention, no-training, security, subprocessors, and breach liability.
Read Post >>From Reactive to Proactive. Building a Continuous Vendor Monitoring Program.
Tier vendors by patient/data impact, monitor live risk signals year-round, and enforce fast responses to protect PHI and care delivery.
Read Post >>The Clinical Engineering Question. Who Owns Medical Device Risk in 2026.
Shared execution fails unless each medical-device risk decision has one named executive owner and a tracked device risk register.
Read Post >>Inside the SMART Score. How Systemic Risk Gets Quantified.
How SMART converts vendor and product traits into a 300–850 systemic risk score to prioritize healthcare dependencies and chokepoints.
Read Post >>Vendor Concentration in Pharmacy. The Next Change Healthcare Waiting to Happen.
Pharmacy operations hide single points of failure in shared vendors that can stop prescriptions, claims, and payments—map and test your fallbacks.
Read Post >>What Boards Get Wrong About Ransomware. A Director's Reading Guide.
How healthcare boards must treat ransomware as enterprise risk: demand tested recovery times, map vendor exposure, and measure care impact.
Read Post >>The Cyber Disclosure Era. SEC, HHS, and the New Reporting Reality.
Explains SEC, HIPAA/HHS, state, and vendor reporting differences and how to run a unified disclosure workflow.
Read Post >>Federation, Not Standardization: A Network Solves Healthcare's Assessment Problem.
Standardizing risk language, not processes, lets healthcare reuse vendor evidence and keep local teams accountable.
Read Post >>The Critical Vendor List. Why Yours Is Probably Wrong.
Reclassify vendors by outage impact, care disruption, and fourth-party risk—not contract value or PHI exposure.
Read Post >>Healthcare's Software Bill of Materials Problem. From SBOM to AIBOM.
SBOMs list code but miss AI risks. Healthcare needs AIBOMs — living records of models, training data, runtime, bias and drift controls.
Read Post >>The Procurement Handoff. Where Vendor Risk Programs Quietly Break.
Treat vendor approval as four separate gates—assessment, risk acceptance, contract/BAA, and go‑live—to prevent PHI exposure and lost findings.
Read Post >>Why Your Tabletop Exercise Failed. And How to Run One That Surfaces Real Gaps.
Make healthcare tabletop exercises expose real care and vendor gaps with evolving injects, decision-makers, timestamped logs, and retests.
Read Post >>The Vendor Risk Manager's Dilemma. Speed Versus Depth in 2026.
Tier vendors at intake, use rapid reviews for low risk and deep dives for high-risk vendors to protect PHI and patient safety.
Read Post >>AI in Revenue Cycle. The Governance Gap No One Is Talking About.
Unchecked AI in the revenue cycle risks denials, PHI exposure, audit problems, and lost revenue.
Read Post >>HHS Rulemaking Is Coming. Position Your Program Before the Comment Period Closes.
Map proposed HIPAA requirements to controls, build audit-ready evidence, prioritize patient-safety gaps, and set defensible comment positions.
Read Post >>Secure by Design: Building Cyber-Resilient Medical AI Systems
Embed security across the medical AI lifecycle to prevent breaches and patient harm with risk assessments, encryption, access controls and ongoing monitoring.
Read Post >>Beyond the Hype: 7 Hidden AI Risks Every Executive Must Address in 2025
Seven hidden AI risks in healthcare—from prompt injection and shadow AI to vendor exposure and model poisoning—and clear governance steps to protect patients and compliance.
Read Post >>Ultimate Guide to Supply Chain Crisis Communication
Transparent, rapid, legally grounded communication is critical to protect patients and maintain operations during healthcare supply chain crises.
Read Post >>Ultimate Guide to FDA Cybersecurity Labeling 2025
Overview of FDA's 2025 cybersecurity labeling for medical devices: SBOMs, connectivity disclosures, secure config, patching, AI-specific obligations.
Read Post >>Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Healthcare Research
Practical overview of de-identification, differential privacy, federated learning, and governance for secure, multi-institutional healthcare research.
Read Post >>Clinical AI: Where Innovation Meets Patient Safety
Overview of clinical AI use, risks, and governance: managing bias, diagnostic errors, data privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance to protect patients.
Read Post >>Cancer Center Vendor Risk: Oncology Equipment, Drugs, and Treatment Safety
Protect patient safety by managing vendor risks to oncology equipment, drugs, and IoMT through continuous monitoring, compliance, and incident planning.
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