HIPAA & AI Risk Assessments
Governance
that holds
under pressure.
One integrated assessment of your HIPAA Security Rule safeguards and the AI tools already in use across your organization. Led by a founder with two decades of operational experience in healthcare technology and cybersecurity.
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Security Risk
Assessment for
HIPAA & AI.
Most organizations have never had a true HIPAA Security Risk Assessment. They've had a checklist. And almost none have assessed the risk introduced by AI tools their workforce is already using.
We deliver both in a single, integrated engagement: a HIPAA Security Risk Assessment built to the standards the Security Rule actually requires, combined with a structured AI Risk Assessment that inventories your AI footprint, scores risk by use case, and produces a governance baseline your compliance and legal teams can stand behind.
The output is auditable, board-presentable, and built for organizations that will face regulatory scrutiny, not organizations that hope they won't.
Findings load into Control Layer AI, our AI governance platform, when you are ready to keep the record current.
Request an AssessmentHIPAA Security Risk Assessment
A comprehensive evaluation of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards against the requirements of 45 CFR §164.308–§164.312. We identify vulnerabilities, assess the likelihood and impact of threats to ePHI, and produce a prioritized remediation roadmap with evidence documentation suitable for OCR review.
AI Risk Assessment
A structured evaluation of how AI tools are being used, or are already in use, across your organization. We inventory your AI footprint, including shadow AI, assess each use case for risk to ePHI, regulatory compliance, and data governance, and produce a risk-scored register with policy recommendations and a governance baseline.
What You Receive
A consolidated assessment report with an executive summary, detailed findings, a risk register, and a prioritized remediation plan. Structured for three audiences simultaneously: your compliance team, your legal counsel, and your board.
After the Assessment
Where we
stay on.
Most engagements start and finish with the assessment. Some organizations ask us to stay on and build the program it calls for. Both are scoped in advance with defined deliverables.
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HIPAA Program Builds
Remediation of the assessment findings: policies, technical safeguard design, workforce training, and audit-readiness across cloud environments. Scoped as a fixed-scope project with defined deliverables.
02
Retained Advisory
Ongoing counsel for compliance, legal, and security leaders: regulatory strategy, board-level reporting, and compliance decision support, on a monthly basis.
Background
Built on
execution,
not theory.
The credibility behind this work comes from having built the infrastructure, navigated the audits, raised the capital, and led the teams, in regulated environments where the cost of getting it wrong is measured in patient safety, regulatory action, or enterprise trust.
Bowen & Company is led by Chris Bowen, who first founded DirectClarity during the Accountable Care era: a clinically integrated network platform that connected approximately 43,000 physicians and gave health systems the care coordination infrastructure that emerging ACO models required.
He then founded ClearDATA, a healthcare cloud security company, and served as its Founder, CISO, and Chief Privacy Officer. ClearDATA built multi-cloud security, compliance automation, and healthcare-specific controls when cloud infrastructure was being adopted without the governance to make it defensible under HIPAA. The company raised $80M from institutional investors including Norwest, Humana, and Merck, with zero reportable breaches during his time as CISO.
Control Layer AI is the AI governance platform that grew out of that work. It gives compliance, legal, and privacy leaders one record of every AI system: who owns it, who approved it, and the evidence behind the decision. Bowen & Company delivers the assessment that starts that record.
Perspectives
From the blog.
Practitioner commentary on HIPAA compliance, AI governance, and healthcare cybersecurity, written by Chris Bowen.
In the Press
Where we've
been quoted.
ClearDATA Achieves HITRUST r2 Certification: Highest Level of Information Protection Assurance
Quoted as Founder & CISO on achieving HITRUST r2, the most rigorous certification level, demonstrating the highest standard of compliance assurance.
Read → MedCity News · HLTH 2024Cybersecurity Panel Takeaways from HLTH: Deepfakes, Change Healthcare, and the Limits of Cyber Insurance
"One little slip up with an MFA and look what happened, right?"
Quoted as Founder and CISO of ClearDATA at HLTH 2024 in Las Vegas, on the Change Healthcare breach, deepfake threats, and the gaps in cyber insurance coverage for healthcare organizations.
Read → Healthcare IT NewsSenator Warner Issues Healthcare Cybersecurity Policy Options: One CISO Responds
"Some healthcare organizations have proven to be lax in their security controls. But many are doing everything right and yet still fall victim to attacks by nation-state actors, or criminal syndicates funded by nation-states."
Quoted as industry CISO responding to Senator Warner's federal healthcare cybersecurity policy paper, which called for a dedicated national healthcare cybersecurity leader.
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Let's build
something
defensible.
If your organization is navigating AI governance, compliance complexity, or an upcoming audit and you need a team that has operated at this level before, reach out.