Paul Ford named Chief Information Security Officer at Greenway Health

Greenway Health announced the appointment of Paul Ford as its new Chief Information Security Officer on October 7, 2024. Ford most recently served as Director of Information Security at Inovalon Inc. and previously held IT roles at Credible Behavioral Health and the US Naval Academy.

According to the release, Ford will focus on advancing an information security program whose policies and controls protect systems holding electronic Protected Health Information and other critical assets. The company says he will also lead work on managing security risk and keeping Greenway compliant with regulatory frameworks including NIST, HIPAA and HITRUST. Greenway Health's author page says Ford heads the Cyber Security Department, where he oversees how programs and initiatives to protect its data and systems are managed, monitored and executed. Greenway Health says Ford has brought the company's security posture into line with the HITRUST framework in order to maintain compliance with HIPAA.

The release says Ford has more than 16 years of experience working in information security. At Inovalon Inc., Ford led teams responsible for delivering cybersecurity and IT services, the release says. According to the release, his expertise covers application security, security architecture and engineering, cybersecurity operations, and compliance and governance. As Manager of Information Technology at Credible Behavioral Health, he oversaw the whole corporate IT department and put security programs in place, the release states. Before that, his information technology roles at the US Naval Academy involved enterprise-scale projects and work on security operations, according to the company.

According to the release, Greenway Health offers revenue cycle management, practice management and electronic health records solutions to practices in multiple specialties. The release says the company works with thousands of providers across multiple specialties. According to the release, the appointment is part of a wider Greenway investment in leadership and infrastructure intended to support sustained growth.

Greenway Health says it used AWS technologies such as Cognito, GuardDuty and Shield to build Greenway Secure Cloud, a platform for healthcare IT modernization. The company says it has partnered with AWS to implement Adaptive Authentication, which checks a user's identity before allowing access to internal networks and applications.