Healthcare Cybersecurity Consultants Operationalizing GRC Across Your Enterprise. We advise on the program, implement it, and manage it for you — scoped from a conversation about your actual problem, not a six-week maturity score.
100% healthcare-focused. 130+ healthcare organizations rely on our TPRM services. 80,000+ vendors in the CORL dataset.
Third-party breach exposure is not trending upward. It is stepping upward. The share of all breaches involving a third party went from 15% in 2024 to 30% in 2025 to 48% in 2026 — a 60% jump in a single year (Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report). In healthcare specifically, 32% of breaches involved a third party.
This is not an IT metric. 67% of provider security leaders report losing clinical time to a vendor outage or cyber event in the last 24 months (Black Book Research, via HITRUST 2026 Trust Report). Meanwhile only 3% of organizations can see across their entire supply chain.
The scale problem underneath it is well understood. A typical health system depends on 3,000 to 5,000 vendors involved in care delivery or healthcare operations, and formally assesses fewer than 5% of them in a given year. Healthcare breaches remain the costliest of any sector for the twelfth consecutive year at $7.42M on average, and take 279 days to identify — five weeks worse than the global average.
But volume is a symptom. The root causes are operational:
The result shows up in the GRC record: inconsistent assessment quality, high-risk vendors without mitigation, and coverage that will not withstand scrutiny.
For providers and payers, HIPAA does not ask for a signed Business Associate Agreement. It asks for satisfactory assurances (§164.308(b)(1)) — and the required risk analysis explicitly reaches ePHI held by the business associate, not just what sits on your own servers (§164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)). Subcontractors handling PHI are business associates by definition (§160.103), so fourth parties are in scope. A BAA does not transfer liability: where more than one party is responsible, OCR penalizes each (§160.402), and the penalty tier turns on reasonable diligence.
For healthcare technology suppliers, HITRUST i1 tests for it directly. Domain 14 (Third Party Assurance) carries eight required i1 controls, and the annual SLA review against monitoring records (1411.09f1Sys.1) was the second most common HITRUST corrective action in 2025 — and the most common in 2024. Organizations keep failing the same vendor-oversight control.
A signed BAA is not evidence of reasonable diligence. A tiering model, an assessment record, and a monitoring trail are.
Meditology delivers third-party risk management through three modes. You are not required to move through them in sequence, and most organizations do not. You enter where the gap is.
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Meditology delivers third-party risk management through three modes. You are not required to move through them in sequence, and most organizations do not. You enter where the gap is.
Build it, then hand it over.
Wire the design into how the organization actually works: security terms in contracts, stakeholders and vendors who understand the program, a response path validated before an incident, and monitoring that keeps risk visible between assessments.
Run it for them, via CORL
Hand the engine to CORL. Assessment execution, validation, risk reporting, and remediation follow-through run continuously as a managed service.
We do not open with an assessment. We open with a conversation that surfaces the pain points, issues, and opportunities in your program, and we name the deliverables in the statement of work on day one — no maturity score first, no “TBD.”
That matters because the two asks a client brings are often one underlying problem, and identifying that in the scoping call rather than in a report weeks later is the difference between a program that improves and a program that gets measured.
Providers and Payers
Mid-to-large hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers and research-driven providers, multi-state payers carrying HIPAA plus state privacy plus framework-alignment audits, and regional hospitals and clinics without an end-to-end TPRM program.
Healthcare technology suppliers
Healthcare-focused business associates and vendors pursuing HITRUST or SOC 2, medical device manufacturers with FDA and pre-market obligations, digital health and health-tech companies preparing for enterprise sales, and professional services firms operating as both covered entity and business associate.
Plug-in. Built to plug into your environment. We integrate with existing frameworks, platforms, and workflows, are designed to maximize prior GRC investments, and enable more progress within limited budgets. No rip-and-replace — we elevate what you already have.
Purpose-built. Designed for healthcare complexity: overlapping regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST, PCI DSS, FDA), clinical and operational dependencies where care comes first, expansive vendor ecosystems, medical device risk, and lean security and compliance teams.
Integrated. GRC enablement means connecting services across disciplines. Assessments, certifications, testing, and compliance share frameworks. Security risk insights accelerate certification readiness. Vendor risk integrates into organizational governance instead of sitting in a silo.
A scoping conversation. We work through where the program is creating friction, where coverage is thin, and where leadership is asking questions you cannot answer, then name the specific deliverables that address it. You get a scoped statement of work, not a maturity score and a roadmap to be determined later.
No. Advise, Implement, and Manage are entry points, not stages you graduate through. Organizations regularly run Advise work and CORL-managed assessment execution at the same time.
The assessment is the smaller part of the problem. Intake, tiering, contract terms, remediation follow-through, monitoring between cycles, offboarding, and reporting are where programs stall — and where coverage and defensibility are actually won.
Yes. We integrate with your current GRC and workflow environment rather than requiring a replacement. The CORL Portal is available where you want documented assessment workflows and access to the Cleared Vendor Directory.
Yes, exclusively. EHR platforms, clinical applications, medical device manufacturers, revenue cycle partners, and digital health platforms — assessed for the operational, regulatory, and patient safety implications unique to healthcare.
Vendor risk work feeds the same evidence base your audits and certifications rely on. HIPAA already requires satisfactory assurances and a risk analysis reaching business associates; HITRUST i1 Domain 14 tests third-party assurance directly.
Scoped to the engagement and named in the SOW. Continuous work can be delivered as a subscription.
Schedule a 30-minute scoping conversation. We will work through where your third-party risk program is actually stuck and what it would take to fix it.
