Peter Robichau has spent over two decades at the intersection of healthcare delivery and information security. His work spans the full lifecycle of cybersecurity program design — from governance frameworks and risk assessments to technical implementation and ongoing operational management. Throughout his career, he has built and led security programs that protect patient data, ensure regulatory compliance, and enable healthcare organizations to adopt new technologies without compromising safety.
His expertise encompasses the regulatory landscape that shapes healthcare IT: HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules, the HITECH Act’s meaningful use incentives and breach notification requirements, and the evolving compliance demands placed on organizations deploying electronic health record systems. His book on healthcare information privacy and security was written as a practical guide for organizations building these programs, and its continued use in university health law and clinical informatics programs reflects the durability of the frameworks it describes.
At the enterprise level, Peter has designed and led security programs for academic medical systems, regional health networks, and AI-driven healthcare technology companies. This includes building security architectures for Epic EHR environments, implementing identity and access management programs across thousands of users, conducting risk assessments aligned with NIST Cybersecurity Framework standards, and leading incident response planning and tabletop exercises. His hands-on experience with healthcare data flows — from clinical documentation and lab results to billing systems and patient portals — gives him a practitioner’s understanding of where security vulnerabilities actually emerge in complex health systems.
Peter’s career has been defined by helping organizations navigate complex technology transitions — moving from legacy systems to modern, cloud-native architectures while maintaining operational continuity and regulatory compliance. He has led enterprise-wide EHR implementations, data center migrations, and infrastructure modernization initiatives that required balancing technical ambition with organizational readiness.
This work includes enterprise infrastructure modernization, cloud migration strategy, vendor evaluation and selection, and the organizational change management required to ensure that technology investments deliver their intended value. He holds PROSCI Change Management and Professional Scrum Master certifications, reflecting a practical understanding that technology transformation is fundamentally a human challenge. The most technically sound implementation will fail if the people who use the systems are not prepared, supported, and heard throughout the process.
Peter has particular expertise in the planning and execution phases that determine whether large-scale IT projects succeed or stall: stakeholder alignment, phased rollout strategies, training program design, go-live support models, and the post-implementation optimization that turns a deployed system into a genuinely adopted one.
Through his work at Digital Diagnostics, Peter has developed deep expertise in the unique cybersecurity and compliance requirements of AI-driven healthcare software. Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products operate under FDA regulatory oversight, and building compliant security programs for these products requires understanding both traditional healthcare compliance (HIPAA, HITECH) and software development lifecycle security (SDLC, DevSecOps, HITRUST, SOC 2).
This intersection of medical device regulation and cybersecurity is a rapidly evolving field. Peter’s work involves ensuring that AI algorithms used in clinical decision-making are developed, tested, and deployed within security frameworks that satisfy FDA premarket requirements, HIPAA data protection mandates, and enterprise customer expectations for SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certification. He brings a cross-functional perspective that bridges engineering, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and information security.
Peter approaches cybersecurity as fundamentally a risk management discipline. His work in governance spans board-level security reporting, enterprise risk frameworks, security policy development, and the organizational structures required to sustain effective security programs over time. He has developed executive dashboards and reporting frameworks that translate technical security metrics into business language that boards of directors and C-suite executives can act upon.
He has served on governance committees, advisory boards, and institutional review processes where security, privacy, and organizational risk intersect. His C|CISO certification and CISO Hall of Fame recognition reflect expertise that extends beyond technical implementation into strategic security leadership — the ability to build programs that endure leadership transitions, budget cycles, and evolving threat landscapes.
Peter’s governance work also encompasses third-party risk management, business continuity planning, and the development of security awareness programs that move beyond checkbox compliance toward genuine organizational culture change.
Through Category 3 Partners, Peter has provided strategic consulting to healthcare organizations, technology companies, and institutional clients. His consulting practice has focused on cybersecurity program assessments, compliance gap analysis, technology strategy, and executive advisory services for organizations at inflection points — whether preparing for an audit, responding to a breach, planning a major technology investment, or building a security function from the ground up.
His advisory work is informed by the breadth of his operational experience: he has been the person responsible for executing the strategies he now advises on, which grounds his recommendations in practical reality rather than theoretical frameworks. Learn more about his background or get in touch to discuss how Peter’s expertise can support your organization.