Ensure Enterprise Resiliency

The best defense is a good offense.

Disruption is inevitable. We can help you minimize risk and maximize resiliency.

When it comes to disruption (ransomware, security breach, natural disaster, business partner breach, pandemic), most organizations focus on prevention, with a checklist of compliance items designed to minimize risk. But disruptions will happen, so the focus should really be on maintaining essential functions and adapting to disruptions, shocks, and stressors while still providing quality care. Resilience is about ensuring that your health system can not only withstand crises, but also recover and improve its performance afterwards.

Recent Results

For almost 20 years, Impact Advisors has been partnering with leading hospitals, health systems, specialty care, and physician groups to proactively identify vulnerabilities, strengthen their defenses, and ensure they are ready to adapt and recover from any challenge.

How We Deliver Value

Hundreds of the industry’s foremost IT leaders have put their trust in Impact Advisors to help them develop and implement business resilience strategies. This includes optimizing the appropriateness, effectiveness, security, and strategic value of their technology architecture, infrastructure, application portfolio, IT governance, and human assets. But the reason we are so successful is because we understand that enterprise resilience isn’t just an IT challenge, but rather an inter-connective tissue that involves stakeholders from across the organization.

Information Security & Risk Management

Impact Advisors offers a portfolio of security and privacy services designed to meet you where you are and get you where you need to be. From as-needed expert guidance to embedded, interim leadership to manage day-to-day, we partner with health organizations to assess current capabilities, define or validate objectives, and achieve them at a pace that makes sense for your organization.

Our team of healthcare security experts can help your organization improve compliance, identify risks, develop remediation plans, benchmark security posture, track maturity improvement, and ensure enterprise resiliency.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Preparing for a natural or human-induced disaster is one of the most important considerations for healthcare organizations today. Recent news stories of extended unplanned downtime of Electronic Health Record and payment systems is enough to keep any healthcare executive awake at night. With a solid strategy and focused planning, unexpected system downtime can be prevented.

Impact Advisors enterprise resiliency experts offer comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning services. We specialize in guiding our clients to make informed decisions and take appropriate steps to protect critical assets from unplanned outages.

IT Optimization & Modernization

IT’s role in healthcare has shifted from strategic enabler to key driver of business transformation and innovation, and Impact Advisors has been there for it all. Today’s healthcare CIOs have a lot to contend with, between ensuring tech-enabled care quality, keeping critical IT infrastructure secure and running, and achieving the level of digital maturity and dexterity required to compete, all while balancing cost and value. Impact Advisors’ experts have been operating in or advising executive-level IT roles for more than 20 years.

Scottsdale Institute Webinar:

Preserving Critical Functions and Services Amid Disruptions: How to Set up a Business Continuity Management Program

Hospitals are becoming increasingly complex and dependent on technology, while the threat landscape – cyberattacks, natural disasters, and IT outages – expands. Experiencing disruption is not a matter of “if”– it’s a matter of “when.”

Join Jim Carr and Evangelea Fegaras from Impact Advisors to learn how a regional health system with 10+ hospitals and over two hundred physician practices and outpatient facilities approached dealing with an extended technology outage. We’ll walk through the framework, governance, tools, pilot program, and training used to prepare 30 leaders, from eight different clinical and operational departments, to guide their teams through the worst.

This webinar is hosted by the Scottsdale Institute and registration is free to existing members. If you are not a member but are interested in attending the webinar, please contact Impact Advisors to arrange for a guest login.