Industry · Audit & Assurance
Assurance for healthcare and life sciences
Protecting patient trust, clinical systems and research data.
Healthcare organisations protect some of the most sensitive data that exists, on systems where availability can be safety-critical. We assess the security, privacy and resilience of your clinical and business systems — with applicability determined by where you operate, not a blanket assumption.
Business context
Hospitals, diagnostics, payers, pharma and health-tech handle protected health and research data across a sprawl of clinical and connected systems. Which laws apply depends entirely on jurisdiction and role, so we scope applicability first and never assume a single regime covers everyone.
Major cyber & governance challenges
What the sector is up against.
Patient-information protection
Highly sensitive personal and health data across many systems and parties.
Clinical-system availability
Downtime can affect care, making resilience a safety matter as well as a security one.
Connected & medical devices
Networked devices expand the attack surface and are often hard to patch.
Privacy & consent governance
Consent, research use and data sharing carry distinct privacy obligations.
Third-party & supply chain
Clinical, billing and research vendors introduce dependency risk.
Relevant regulatory landscape
What may apply — and to whom.
HIPAA
Details →US covered entities and business associates only — not universal.
Applicable privacy laws
Details →Jurisdiction-specific (e.g. India DPDP, EU/UK GDPR).
ISO/IEC 27001 · 27701
Details →Voluntary security and privacy management baselines.
ISO 22301
Details →Business continuity for safety-critical availability.
Applicability is organisation-specific. This is general information, not a legal determination — we confirm what applies to you during scoping. See the Framework Library for sources and classifications.
Key audit & assurance areas
- Patient / health-data protection
- Clinical & business-system security
- Privacy & consent governance
- Connected-device & network risk
- Business continuity & recovery
- Third-party & research-data risk
Typical controls & evidence
- Access controls to clinical systems
- Data-flow & data-mapping records
- Encryption & segmentation evidence
- Device inventory & patch status
- BCP/DR plans & exercises
- Vendor & data-sharing agreements
Practical deliverables
What you receive.
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