Helping Healthcare Teams
Navigate AI, Privacy,
and Cyber Risk

Clinical departments across hospitals and clinics are requesting AI-assisted tools (note transcription, scheduling optimization, triage support) faster than most organizations have governance structures in place to evaluate or approve them safely under PHIPA.

Build a governance framework that can assess AI tools quickly enough to meet clinical demand while maintaining privacy controls, regulatory compliance, and keeping patient data in-house.

AI governance policy covering vendor criteria, data residency requirements, and a clinical steering committee process. Conducted LLM-specific reviews on three tools before deployment. Designed an on-premise inference pipeline to prevent PHI from leaving the hospital network.

Three tools in production. Zero privacy incidents across 18 months. A reusable governance template now used for all subsequent AI vendor evaluations.

Many hospitals and clinics still operate on legacy flat networks with medical devices sharing segments with administrative workstations, creating significant lateral movement risk as sector-wide ransomware activity continues to rise across Canadian healthcare.

Complete a full network redesign and Zero Trust rollout within a single fiscal year without disrupting 24/7 clinical operations or patient care systems.

NIST CSF-aligned TRA across all network zones. Micro-segmentation with 18 VLANs separating clinical, administrative, and IoMT traffic. Identity-based access controls and a phased rollout plan that maintained clinical availability throughout the migration.

97% policy compliance at 90-day review. Risk register reduced from 84 open findings to 6 accepted residuals. Board-presented executive summary delivered on schedule.

Healthcare organizations often carry fragmented privacy programs with inconsistent access logging, undocumented consent workflows, and no formal breach notification procedure, an exposure that becomes visible the moment an IPC review is announced.

Build a defensible, auditor-ready PHIPA compliance program in under nine months, covering documentation, training, technical controls, and incident response, while managing routine IT operations in parallel.

Gap analysis against PHIPA Part IV. Automated access audit trail. Consent management workflow redesign. Breach notification protocol. Role-based training program with completion tracking across all clinical and administrative staff.

Zero findings at the IPC review. Privacy policy suite, PIA template library, and breach notification runbook now embedded in standard hospital operations.

Following sector-wide Canadian ransomware advisories, healthcare boards increasingly require a validated ransomware resilience capability, not a policy on paper, but an operationally tested recovery architecture with confirmed RTOs.

Design and validate a recovery architecture that can restore critical EHR and clinical systems within clinically acceptable downtime windows without relying on potentially encrypted production backups.

Full tabletop exercise with clinical and IT leadership. Immutable backup architecture (air-gapped, offsite). Isolated recovery environment. EHR restoration runbook tested under realistic conditions and validated by a third-party red team engagement.

Board-certified Business Continuity posture. Sub-4-hour containment and 6-hour full recovery confirmed in third-party exercise. IRP and runbook embedded in annual hospital drill cycle.