What do you know about cybersecurity in healthcare?

You’ve probably heard news reports about the surge in cybersecurity incidents across the healthcare industry throughout 2020. The reality is that developing and maintaining a robust cybersecurity and risk management program is a challenge for any organization. For healthcare companies in particular, it’s difficult to stay up to date with a rapidly evolving cybersecurity compliance landscape. Our guest on the pod today saw these problems firsthand when he was CISO at the health IT company Voxiva and he decided to do something about it.

Grant Elliott is CEO and Founder of Ostendio. Grant tells the story of how he realized there was a market opportunity in healthcare security and compliance, and how he made the leap from the steady ride of the corporate C-suite to the extremely uncertain world of tech entrepreneurship. Grant gives his advice for founders (“Just don’t do it”) and shares his secret for successfully scaling a technology company (TLDR: It’s the title to this episode.) Grant teaches courses on business and entrepreneurship at the Pratt Institute, he is the Founder and Former President of the Healthcare Cloud Coalition, and in his spare time he mentors and advises entrepreneurs. 

You can check out all the healthcare compliance and risk management tools Grant and his team are building at Ostendio.com and you can follow them on Twitter @Ostendio.

In this episode, Grant with host van Beek discuss his journey:

Chapters

• Childhood/Growing up in South Africa/Key Moments (5:26)
• The moment Grant believed he could do Cricket as a career? (12:29)
• Advice for 20 year old Grant Elliott (14:15)
• Grant wishing he set his Goals higher (17:30)
• Moving to New Zealand – starting at zero again (19:28)
• 2001 to 2007 - How was the mindset and were there any key moments that influenced Grant as a cricketer (23:57)
• Learning from Negative experiences (30:16)
• 'Never been so nervous in my life' - Making his Test Debut for the Blackcaps (34:34)
• Common piece of advice - "Enjoy what you do" - How did you go about 'enjoying' Cricket (39:30)
• Amazing start to Blackcaps career - to fighting fitness/form and out of the mix (43:34)
• The disappointment of missing out on the 2011 World Cup Squad… “I was ready to pack it in” (47:34)
• Fulfilling a boyhood dream - Named in the 2015 World Cup Squad (50:58)
• ‘The Grant Elliott moment’ - The 2015 World Cup Semi-Final vs South Africa (56:36)
• ‘The Dale Steyn handshake’ - a great sportsmanship image (1:02:32)
• Going into big moments ‘feeling calm’ - the tools Grant learnt (1:04:12)
• What would you and the Team do differently going into that Final (1:06:57)
• How do you train mentally to be able to perform in those high pressured moments? (1:08:29)
• Keys for a High Performing team – Good or Toxic behaviours? (1:11:53)
• Key features from the best leaders Grant has been around? (1:16:18)
• What were the last few years of your career like after that epic World Cup moment? – Playing the different T20 competitions around the world (1:19:30)
• Career transitioning - advice for current professional sportspeople (1:22:29)
• Where is Grant Elliott in 10 years time? (1:26:09)

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The topic:

Have you ever wondered how much more secure - or perhaps less secure - your organization is compared to your peers in the industry? This could have a significant impact on your business not simply the operational performance of your organization, but on the commercial opportunities as well. With the risks and threats surrounding healthcare data, the stakes are high to make sure that organizations, and all their partners, vendors and clients, are proactive and compliant with the latest requirements.

Our guest:

Grant Elliott is the President & CEO at Ostendio - a leading provider of cybersecurity and information management software based in northern Virginia. Ostendio is leading the way to make security auditing easier for smaller companies, and affordable and accessible to organizations of any size.

Links and Resources:8 Steps to take to protect your OrganizationsOstendio MyVCM Crosswalk Assessment for Healthcare ComplianceGrant Elliot: Twitter  •  LinkedIn  Ostendio:   Twitter  •  LinkedIn  •  Website

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SHOW NOTES

BUY SEBASTIAN'S BACK BOOK 

Grant Elliott is a student of chiropractic at Logan College of Chiropractic (in term 7 of 10 at the time of this recording).

I wanted to have him on the show because of the amazing, high quality content he has been producing for social media (Instagram and Youtube). Being a content creator, I know how hard it is to get going and how crappy most of our first efforts are. He’s a prime example of someone who has been able just start showing the world what he knows, he’s willing to take the criticism that will come with the spotlight and the success as well.

Students should take note… this is how you get people in your clinic doors. The struggle will be very real in Term 11.

Keep an eye on him, I know he’s destined for big things!

Thanks for being on soon to be Dr. Elliott!

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