Austin-Zierke — Clinical Risk Partners

The Program

What Clinical Risk Monitor delivers

A consulting engagement, not a software license. Each engagement is a scheduled cycle of assessment, advisory support, and expert-signed reporting — the outside expertise your organization needs, delivered as a partnership rather than a hire.

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Clinical Risk Monitor in one paragraph. It is a consulting engagement from Austin-Zierke Clinical Risk Partners for pregnancy help organizations, healthcare nonprofits, ambulatory clinics, and medical offices: security risk assessment, scheduled vulnerability and compliance assessments, HIPAA-aligned policy and claims-language work, AI governance, accreditation readiness support, and board-ready reporting. Every formal cycle ends with a cover letter signed by a human compliance expert. It is offered at three engagement levels — Foundation, Foundation Plus, and Executive — each scoped to the organization’s revenue, workforce, and locations. The list price is the nonprofit price.

What your organization receives

  • Security risk assessments. Know exactly where your safeguards stand, so risks are found and addressed before they become incidents.
  • Scheduled technical assessments. Industry-standard scanning and review inputs feed structured findings, open-item tracking, and expert-signed reports your board can act on — not a dump of alerts with no owner.
  • Third-party vendor reviews. Confidence that the software and service providers who touch your clients’ data are held to the same standard you are.
  • Agreement and BAA reviews. Your vendor agreements and, where applicable, business associate agreements stay current, complete, and enforceable — one of the most commonly missed obligations.
  • Public claims-language review. We audit your website and intake forms against your actual practices and true regulatory status, and give you language you can safely publish — the gap state regulators are actively pursuing.
  • Security awareness and phishing training. Your staff and volunteers become your strongest defense against the most common cause of healthcare breaches. (Foundation Plus and Executive.)
  • AI governance guidance. Adopt new tools with clear guardrails, so innovation never comes at the expense of client privacy.
  • An inventory of the AI already in use. A written list of the tools your organization relies on, including the features built into software you already own — which is where most organizations find theirs.
  • Device and media control review. Where client information is created, stored, copied, backed up, and eventually disposed of — including storage attached to clinical equipment, which routinely sits outside the IT inventory.
  • Policy maintenance. Your privacy and security policies stay aligned with current regulations and your actual practices — no more outdated binders on a shelf.
  • Incident response planning. If something ever goes wrong, your team knows exactly what to do in the first critical hours.
  • Executive compliance reporting. Clear, board-ready reports give your leadership visibility without technical translation.
  • Annual documentation review. A complete, organized compliance record — ready for insurers, auditors, or accreditation surveyors.
  • Coordination with your existing IT provider. We work alongside the people who already support you, adding compliance expertise without disruption.

Every formal deliverable carries human expert attestation

Each reporting cycle ends with a plain-language cover letter reviewed, edited, and signed by a human compliance expert, with the scope and limitations of the review stated explicitly. The letter summarizes your posture, the findings that matter, and who owns what next. It is written to be handed directly to your board, your insurer, or your surveyor.

This is the line we do not cross in either direction: our AI accelerates analysis but never signs, and no report leaves this firm without expert review. Human attestation and expert support — automation never replaces accountability.

Three Ways to Engage

Every clinic starts from the same core program, then selects the level of advisory support that matches its risk and staffing. Signed expert attestation is included at every level.

What this program is — and is not

Clinical Risk Monitor is a consulting engagement for risk assessment, compliance advisory, and governance. It is not managed information technology, and it is not continuous cybersecurity protection unless your technology partner separately provides true endpoint detection, network monitoring, remediation, and incident response. We position it accurately because that protects both your expectations and the credibility of the work.

The core program covers compliance assessment, risk management guidance, HIPAA Security Rule review, cybersecurity governance, documentation management, staff education, AAAHC readiness support, and coordination with your existing IT provider.

Foundation

Scoped in your consultation

The base program. Every engagement includes:

  • Annual Security Risk Assessment
  • Annual HIPAA documentation review
  • Policy maintenance
  • Vendor and Business Associate Agreement tracking
  • Annual staff training
  • Quarterly compliance review
  • Annual incident-response tabletop exercise
  • Annual executive report
  • AAAHC alignment
  • Ongoing compliance question support

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Foundation Plus

Scoped in your consultation

Everything in Foundation, plus monthly technical reviews:

  • Monthly vulnerability review
  • Monthly Microsoft 365 security review
  • Monthly phishing simulation
  • Monthly corrective-action tracking
  • Quarterly meeting with your IT provider

Executive

Scoped in your consultation

Everything in Foundation Plus, plus executive-level attention:

  • Monthly executive compliance report
  • Quarterly executive compliance call
  • Board-ready reporting
  • Priority response to HIPAA and cybersecurity questions
  • Cybersecurity insurance application review
  • AI system risk reviews
  • Two hours of consulting support per quarter

How an engagement is scoped

The engagement level sets what we do. What it costs depends on the shape of your organization: your annual revenue, the size of your paid and volunteer workforce, the number of locations, satellite sites, or mobile medical units you operate, and whether any of them run a separate network, electronic health record, or technology vendor. The initial Security Risk Assessment and implementation work is scoped separately from the ongoing program, and networks of affiliated organizations are scoped together rather than one at a time.

We work all of that out with you during the consultation and put it in writing before anything begins — one figure, no staged discounts, nothing that changes after you have taken it to your board. The list price is the nonprofit price.

Every engagement includes our written portability commitment: your organization owns all reports, policies, findings, and evidence we produce, with export in standard formats and orderly offboarding support on request.

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Pursuing accreditation?

The program is designed to complement AAAHC standards, helping accredited and accreditation-minded organizations demonstrate the documented risk management and quality oversight that surveyors expect — between surveys, not only at survey time. If a survey is on your calendar, say so in your consultation request; readiness timelines shape how we scope the engagement.