100% healthcare-focused. Our practitioners have served as HIPAA expert witnesses, including in matters involving the Office for Civil Rights.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is not a certification you earn once. It’s a continuous legal obligation, interpreted through evolving OCR guidance and shaped, case by case, through enforcement. We help covered entities and business associates build privacy and security programs that hold up under that scrutiny and protect the trust patients place in you.
OCR’s own enforcement record shows where this goes wrong most often. Its Risk Analysis Initiative has produced 14 settlements as of mid-2026, and every one cites the same root failure: an incomplete or outdated risk analysis that doesn’t reflect how the organization actually operates. Most HIPAA programs aren’t missing policies. They’re missing a current, defensible answer to a simple question: where does PHI live, how does it move, and does anyone actually know?
The other blind spot compounds it. Most organizations cannot produce a current, accurate inventory of their business associates or confirm that agreements and safeguards are actually in place, which means real exposure often sits outside the walls an organization thinks it controls.
A HIPAA program that exists only on paper puts patient trust, and your standing with OCR, at risk.
We treat HIPAA as a living program and evaluate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards as a whole rather than as isolated line items. Our practitioners are former Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and compliance leaders who have sat in your chair and answered to regulators, auditors, and boards.
Every engagement runs through Meditology’s three-tier model: Advise (strategy, vision, plan), Implement (deliver, accelerate, build), and Manage (operate, enable, run). We position the program rather than a single tier, and we keep it current as rulemaking evolves, including anticipated HIPAA Security Rule updates.
Our HIPAA program work covers:
Separately, this work is aligned with the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) published under Section 405(d) of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, and we align technical safeguards to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF 2.0) where it strengthens your HIPAA posture.
For OCR investigations, enforcement response, and expert-witness support, see our OCR Compliance and Investigation Support page.
HIPAA is interpretive, and the interpretations that matter come from how OCR actually examines an organization, not from the text of the rule alone.
Our practitioners are former healthcare CISOs and compliance leaders who have made these calls under scrutiny. We assess the Privacy Rule and Security Rule as an integrated whole, frame the work against HICP under Section 405(d), and align safeguards to NIST CSF 2.0.
The difference from a standalone HIPAA engagement is what the evidence does next. Through RITHM™, our continuous-engagement model, the evidence stays current between audits so your risk analysis never goes stale.
No, and OCR’s own enforcement pattern proves it. A risk analysis from three years ago won’t hold up when your environment, vendors, and systems have changed since. We build a program that stays current rather than a one-time deliverable.
This HIPAA program work evaluates Privacy and Security Rule compliance across administrative, physical, and technical safeguards as a whole. For a deep, controls-level Security Rule risk analysis, see our Security Risk Assessment page.
That’s a distinct engagement. For OCR investigations, enforcement response, and expert-witness support, see our OCR Compliance and Investigation Support page.
For organizations with cross-border or expanded privacy obligations, we run GDPR and HIPAA Privacy Impact Assessments alongside your HIPAA program work.
No. We are tool-agnostic and plug into the platforms you already use. Where continuous engagement helps, we offer Meditology’s RITHM model.
HIPAA Security Rule updates are anticipated. We keep your program current as rulemaking evolves.
Schedule a 30-minute conversation and leave with a clear, defensible read on where your current risk analysis and business associate inventory would stand up to OCR scrutiny today, and what closes the gap fastest.
