Independent medical practices are navigating a pivotal moment — AI adoption, rising compliance demands, and cybersecurity risks that didn't exist five years ago. Meridian Advisory provides fractional CAIO and CISO leadership for the practices that need C-suite expertise but not a full-time hire.
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Independent medical practices are under pressure from every direction. AI tools are moving from novelty to necessity — and with them come new obligations around patient data, vendor risk, and regulatory compliance that most practices aren't equipped to navigate alone.
A full-time CISO or Chief AI Officer costs $250K–$400K per year. A consultant gives you a report and leaves. Neither fits the reality of how independent practices operate.
Meridian Advisory was built to close that gap — embedded, fractional leadership that works alongside your team, not just for it.
What sets Jason apart is a rare combination: deep technical credibility paired with genuine executive-level communication. He doesn’t just assess risk — he builds the strategy to address it, and he can walk a board of directors through that strategy with a clarity that earns trust and drives decisions.
I've spent 11+ years building and operating Tuearis, a managed security services firm, from the ground up. In that time I've led HIPAA and HITRUST compliance engagements, built security programs for healthcare-adjacent organizations, and learned what it actually takes to execute — not just advise.
The programs I've built have passed roughly 30 HIPAA audits and two HITRUST certifications — both on the first attempt, with zero remediation required. That matters more than it sounds: a failed certification means months of rework and a second audit cycle to pay for. Getting it right the first time takes about nine months to initial certification and three to four for recerts, and the systems and response processes behind them now measure incident response in seconds and minutes rather than the hours or days most organizations accept as normal. Today those programs protect care delivery for roughly 90,000 patients.
On the AI side, I've run the same engagement I'd run for a client — twice, on my own operations. Use-case selection, vendor and architecture evaluation, governance guardrails, and the deployment decisions that follow from them, including private AI infrastructure operating under the same compliance constraints my clients face. Most fractional AI advisors deliver the strategy and hand off the consequences. I've owned both ends of it.
Meridian Advisory exists because independent medical practices deserve the same quality of technology and security leadership that health systems have — without the overhead that only health systems can afford.
A 30-minute conversation is enough to understand whether Meridian Advisory is the right fit for your practice. No commitment required.
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