Prove Your Response Plan Before a Real Incident Forces the Test
When ransomware locks the EHR during clinical hours or a third-party clearinghouse outage halts claims, your written response plan becomes a live decision under pressure. Meditology’s healthcare tabletop exercises put that plan in front of the executives, clinicians, and operators who would actually run it, so gaps surface in a conference room instead of in the middle of patient care.
A Plan That Has Not Been Tested Is a Hypothesis
Your board is asking the question you cannot fully answer yet: if a major cyber incident hit tomorrow, can we still deliver care? Most healthcare response and recovery plans look complete on paper and come apart at the first real hand-off. Downtime procedures assume systems that are themselves compromised. Vendor failure, a payer or PBM outage, a clearinghouse going dark, lands on teams who have never rehearsed the disruption together.
The stakes in healthcare are clinical, not theoretical. When the EHR is down, clinicians fall back to manual workflows that few have practiced. Leadership receives disconnected findings from separate functions using different metrics and severity scales, making it impossible to connect the dots on organizational exposure. The cost of discovering these gaps during a real event is measured in patient safety, regulatory exposure, and reputation.
15+ years of HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and PCI DSS assessment experience.
100% healthcare focus.
Meditology’s Cyber Resilience practice surfaces the assumptions, gaps, and hand-offs that only show under pressure. The goal is to test the plan, not to grade the people. Scenarios are drawn from threats currently impacting healthcare and mapped to recognized frameworks.
Custom healthcare-specific scenario package:
Annual exercise calendar and scenario roadmap:
The single exercise runs 2 to 6 weeks of preparation plus a half-day or full-day exercise. The program is an annual subscription with 2 to 4 exercises per year across a multi-year engagement.
Healthcare Cybersecurity Consultants Operationalizing GRC Across Your Enterprise. Tabletop testing only matters if the findings turn into action, and that is where Meditology’s model is built to deliver.
Walk through your current response plan and identify where a tabletop will surface the most risk.
No. Scenarios are custom-built from real healthcare incidents and tailored to your critical processes and vendor footprint, with separate executive and clinical tracks.
Either. Meditology can perform a single facilitated exercise or maintain an annual cadence (2 to 4 exercises per year) with rotating scenarios and corrective-action tracking.
An after-action report with prioritized findings and a corrective action plan with owners and target dates. For the program, you also receive a corrective-action register with quarterly status and an annual board summary.
Yes, where the scenario calls for it. Vendor-inclusive scenarios (for example, a third-party technology provider) are available and scoped to the disruption being exercised. This is scenario-dependent rather than included in every exercise.
For the single exercise, plan for your security team, IT leadership, communications, key business owners, and even executives. The program model is built for health systems, payers, or healthcare technology providers seeking a valuable exercise discipline.
Healthcare resilience is a trust relationship, and a tested plan is how you keep it. Turn your response plan from a hypothesis into a rehearsed capability your board can act on.
