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Healthcare compliance and cybersecurity services for vendors.
Proactively prepare for healthcare cybersecurity requirements.
Remaining ahead in today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape takes more than point-in-time assessments or periodic pen tests. It takes a dedicated team of experts committed to empowering healthcare vendors to strengthen their risk posture over time in the areas that matter most to clients.
Transform your approach to healthcare compliance.
Through Meditology Services and RITHM, its subscription-based IT risk management program, healthcare vendors can map an achievable and affordable path to healthcare cybersecurity and compliance.
Elevate your risk posture
Support the requirements that matter most to your healthcare clients—from HITRUST and SOC 2 certifications to penetration tests, security risk assessments, and more.
Contain healthcare cybersecurity costs
Enjoy significant cost savings in a turnkey, subscription-based package that provides discounts on individual services and makes cybersecurity both predictable and affordable for your organization.
Prepare for healthcare contracting
Correlate cybersecurity milestones with your broader third-party risk management efforts to reduce assessment overload and accelerate the sales cycle.
Choose your own healthcare cybersecurity journey
Choose from several tiered packages to best support your organization’s specific needs today and tomorrow, with the flexibility to meet you right where you are.
Simplify cybersecurity and compliance with Meditology
Comprehensive cybersecurity services from a healthcare-specialized partner.
Whether you’re looking for support in a specific area or require more than a point-in-time engagement, Meditology can help. Our team of consultants has helped payors, providers, and vendors of all sizes achieve their most pressing cybersecurity objectives.
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Here are some of the key advantages of RITHM for healthcare cybersecurity and compliance.
From point in time to continuous engagement.
Move beyond point-in-time cybersecurity initiatives to maximize momentum from your collective cybersecurity efforts and respond to evolving risk realities.
From multiple providers to program continuity.
Maximize synergies across your cybersecurity, risk, and compliance landscape and benefit from the continuity of a proven, healthcare-specialized partner.
From standalone pricing to bundled pricing.
Benefit from bundled pricing for discounts across individual service lines, while maintaining the flexibility to evolve package components based on your unique needs.
From multiple business cases and budgets to one.
Simplify the budgeting cycle, with one unified business case and budget for a three-year rolling cybersecurity subscription.
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FAQs
How does RITHM address healthcare cybersecurity?
The idea behind RITHM (Risk Management for Information Technology in Healthcare powered by Meditology) is simple: it takes ongoing, continuous rigor to remain ever-ahead of healthcare’s cybersecurity, risk, and compliance requirements. In other words, it takes RITHM. For many vendors, prioritizing and budgeting for these efforts can feel overwhelming, particularly with competing priorities and client requirements.
RITHM simplifies and streamlines healthcare cybersecurity, risk, and compliance by bundling the core services that matter most to today’s payors and providers in a subscription-based package that is affordable and convenient for today’s vendors.
With three packages that vendors can tailor to the unique needs of their organization, RITHM empowers vendors to conduct budgeting once, then subscribe on a three-year rolling basis. In addition to simplifying business planning, RITHM also frees up time for busy IT leadership, who are free to focus their efforts less on tactical planning and more on strategic alignment.
What is included in the RITHM packages?
RITHM offers Plus, Pro, and Premium packages, which offer increasingly rigorous services. Vendors can choose the package best suited to their organization’s requirements. The below table summarizes cybersecurity, risk, and compliance services by package.
| Core Risk & Compliance Services | Premium | Pro | Plus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual HITRUST or SOC 2 certification | x | x | x |
| Annual HIPAA risk assessment supported by CyberROM™ enhanced security dashboards | x | x | x |
| Annual network penetration testing | x | x | x |
| Annual cybersecurity IRP tabletop exercise | x | x | x |
| CORL vendor security risk assessments | x | x | x |
| Monthly cybersecurity retainer | x | x | x |
| Annual board presentation support | x | x | |
| Pen test validation testing | x | x | |
| Cloud security controls assessment | x | ||
| Web application security testing | x |
Which RITHM package is best for me?
All three RITHM packages meet the foundational contracting requirements of most healthcare organizations. Our Pro package complements these foundational services with executive support and penetration testing. And our Premium package adds specialized assessments focused on cloud security and web application testing.
Organizations who require more strategic engagement often value the Pro package, while organizations with specialized requirements around cloud and web apps gravitate towards our Premium package. It is worth noting that the discount provided on add-on consulting services increases with each tier and our Premium RITHM customers cite this discount as one of their driving reasons for choosing our most robust package.
I am already contracted for one of RITHM’s services. Can I still benefit?
Absolutely. We understand that many organizations have single-service contracts for one or more of the RITHM services. For that reason, our team works carefully with each RITHM client to substitute any services they may already be contracted for. If you have questions about tailoring one of the RITHM subscription tiers to your needs, please contact us and a member of our team will be in touch with you shortly.
What if I’m not ready for a SOC 2 or HITRUST certification?
Attestations like SOC 2 or HITRUST carry significant weight in the healthcare industry, where data protection is paramount, and breaches continue to dominate headlines. If you are uncertain about your readiness for one of these certifications, you are not alone. The HITRUST certification, in particular, has undergone a powerful transformation over the last several years to establish an achievable and progressive journey for vendors to achieve increasingly higher levels of cybersecurity. If you’d like an honest assessment of your organization’s readiness to pursue one or more of these certifications, contact us. A member of our team will help you assess readiness and make the most of your RITHM subscription if you decide not to pursue an attestation at this time.
How can Meditology help me accelerate sales in healthcare?
Our extensive work with leading payors and providers, including our work in third-party risk management, was front of mind when assembling our RITHM packages. The subscription includes core cybersecurity, risk, and compliance services that are not only essential to reducing cyber risk for today’s healthcare vendors but also foundational to affirming contract suitability among healthcare prospects and customers.
Many of the deliverables included in the RITHM subscription can be actively leveraged as artifacts in the TPRM process and supplied as evidence for AI-powered security questionnaire automation tools like CORL Companion. In addition, the RITHM services tightly align with CORL Cleared requirements in that they are both specific controls that correlate to reduced supplier risk.
By becoming RITHM subscribers, healthcare vendors are making a powerful investment in the success of their TPRM and broader go-to-market efforts in healthcare.