Protect Your Community. Risk-Based Cybersecurity for Rural and Critical Healthcare
Practical, focused, and responsive solutions from experts who understand healthcare's constraints and know how to put them into action where they matter most.
You’re critical to the health and well-being of your community. They rely on your hospital to manage chronic conditions, grow their families, and respond to emergencies. Without you, accessing care means travel, delays, and uncertainty. Clearwater helps uncover hidden risks and chart a strategic path to a reasonable, appropriate security program with proven resiliency outcomes, and helps you stay on budget as the threat landscape keeps expanding.
20+ Yrs
Dedicated to Healthcare Cybersecurity
100% OCR Success Rate
IRM|Analysis for Asset-Based Risk Management
405(d)
HICP-Aligned Programs for Small & Medium Hospitals
Black Book / KLAS Recognized
Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader
THE REALITY ON THE GROUND
Rural Health Has a Risk Problem, Not an Awareness Problem
Clearwater helps resource-constrained health providers move beyond documentation to real, measurable risk reduction. This isn’t advisory-only security. This is security designed for you, and where you need it most.
Executive & Board Education
Ask about our free seminar on enterprise cyber risk management for hospital C-suite executives and board members. Education is foundational to Clearwater’s mission, delivered virtually or in person on your schedule.
Baseline Assessments Against Best Practices
The 405(d) HICP framework offers controls and best practices sized to your organization. Clearwater’s HICP Assessment gives you the data to gauge your practices, build an action plan, and stand up defensible reporting for an OCR audit or investigation.
Help in Implementing the Next-Best Step
Resource-constrained organizations don’t have the luxury of doing every initiative at once. Clearwater’s experts have sat in your seat. They know your constraints and the best way to mitigate risk one initiative at a time, wherever you need help most.
FEATURED PROGRAM FOR SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
ClearAdvantage ® | Protect
A continuous cyber risk managed service program, tailored to the unique needs of rural and critical access hospitals and any resource-constrained provider.
ClearAdvantage ® combines cybersecurity and compliance into one program built, executed, and matured by Clearwater, aligned with the small and medium sub-practices of the 405(d) HICP practice guides.
Designed to meet the specific needs and constraints of regional and critical access hospitals, ClearAdvantage® helps you reach a “mature, reasonable, and appropriate” state faster: avoid cyber events, minimize impact, recover quickly when necessary, and deliver patient care with the confidence that you’re secure, compliant, and resilient.
JOIN US: Community Hospital Security Roundtable
QUARTERLY SERIES
A quarterly virtual gathering of security leaders operating in resource-constrained healthcare environments, led by Clearwater’s Jackie Mattingly. Each session tackles one high-priority issue, followed by open discussion: practical strategies, direct questions, and peers navigating the same tight budgets, limited staffing, and legacy technology.
FEATURED CLIENT STORIES
CLIENT STORY - HIMMS TV
Duncan Regional Hospital: Closing the Resource Gap
Roger Neal, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of DRH Health, an Oklahoma regional system with acute care and 20 clinics, talks with HIMSS TV about the resource and expertise gap that hits rural markets hardest, and why they brought in Clearwater to help close it.
“There aren’t enough security personnel in the country to do everything we need them to do… having that extra set of eyes is pretty amazing.”
CLIENT STORY – HEALTHCARE CYBER & COMPLIANCE EXCHANGE
Nathan Littauer Hospital: Building a Program Under Real Constraints
Lance Alston, Director of IT at Nathan Littauer Hospital, joins Clearwater’s Jackie Mattingly for a candid look at starting with a risk-based roadmap, translating risk for the board, and what changes when a trusted partner is on call.
“Within 15 minutes of an escalated security event, Clearwater had a war bridge stood up and the investigation underway… without that partnership, we would have spiraled.”
VALUE OF RISK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
White River Health System: 405(d) & IRM|Pro® in Practice
A critical access hospital serving 10 counties in north-central Arkansas has used the full IRM|Pro® suite since 2018 to move from an informal approach to a documented, audit-ready program.
“We didn’t just get software. We got a way to document, prioritize, and show our progress. And that’s something we’d recommend to anyone.”
What Rural and Critical Access Hospitals Ask Us
What is the 405(d) HICP framework, and why does it matter for a small hospital?
The Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) framework, established under Section 405(d) of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, offers controls and best practices to address the leading threats to healthcare organizations, while recognizing that organizations of different types and sizes have different needs and resources. It gives rural and critical access hospitals a right-sized way to gauge their security practices, close gaps, and document a defensible program.
What does the ClearAdvantage® program actually include?
ClearAdvantage is an outsourced cybersecurity and compliance program built, executed, and matured by Clearwater, aligned to the small and medium sub-practices of the 405(d) HICP guides. It combines the IRM|Pro software platform, on-demand expert support, and managed security services covering risk analysis, vCISO leadership, technical testing, vulnerability management, business impact analysis, M365 and cloud security, endpoint security, and vendor risk management.
Where should we start if our security program feels behind?
Not with a tool purchase. A thorough, asset-based risk analysis turns guesswork into decision-making by identifying what actually needs attention first. From there, you can build a prioritized, multi-year roadmap that starts with low-cost, high-impact fixes rather than trying to do everything at once.
Can a hospital with a lean IT team really reach audit-ready?
Yes. White River Health System, a critical access hospital in Arkansas with a small IT team, went from an informal, undocumented approach to a structured, risk-driven, audit-ready program by dedicating consistent weekly time to the work and treating the 405(d) self-assessment as a living roadmap rather than a one-time checklist.
Featured Experts
Our health experts have hospital backgrounds and leverage decades of experience and expertise to support your organization’s unique blueprint for risk analysis to risk management.
SME Highlight
Jackie Mattingly, Ph.D., CHPS, HCISPP, CHISL, CISSP
Jackie Mattingly is the Senior Director of Consulting Services for Small/Medium Hospitals at Clearwater. She brings Clearwater customers over 20 […]
SME Highlight
Chad Walker, CISSP, CEH, CHISL, CDH-L
Chad Walker is a vCISO and Principal Consultant at Clearwater with over 25 years of IT experience, including 9 years […]
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