Working With Medical Practices
Private practices and concierge medicine clinics hold some of the most sensitive personal information in existence. Patient records contain financial data, identity information, prescription histories, and diagnoses. That combination makes healthcare records significantly more valuable on criminal markets than most other categories of stolen data.
The threat profile for small and mid-size practices is distinct from what large health systems face. The more common risks are opportunistic: ransomware that encrypts electronic health records until a payment is made, phishing targeting staff access to billing systems, business email compromise directed at insurance reimbursement transfers, and patient identity theft used to file fraudulent claims. A record 289 million healthcare records were exposed in 2024, making it the highest breach volume year on record.¹
Enforcement has followed. The Office for Civil Rights has increased HIPAA penalty actions significantly in recent years, and small practice size does not reduce compliance obligations. The expectations apply regardless of whether you have four clinicians or forty.
Most small practices are underprepared, and the gap is rarely deliberate. Running a clinical practice is demanding work, and security has to fit around how you actually operate. We don't drop an enterprise framework into a small office — we identify the specific gaps that create real exposure and address those.
We work with medical practices on two things.
Understanding where your practice stands. We assess your email security, your EHR access controls, your billing workflows, and where staff access creates unnecessary risk. The output is a plain-English findings report with a prioritised action list. This is our Security Posture & Risk Review, bookable directly.
Ongoing advisory access. For practices that want a security-aware person available to answer questions and review situations as they arise, our monthly retainer provides a 45-minute call and async access between sessions for $750 per month. This is our SMB Advisory Retainer.
The practice owner or lead physician is usually the decision-maker, and the initial conversation is typically the most useful step. We keep it practical and free of jargon.