Instructor Biography

About The Instructor

Deepak Chaudhry is BDO’s National Health IT & HITRUST Leader in the Technology Advisory Services practice, having more than 17 years of experience in technology, security management, and technical operations across a variety of industries including healthcare, legal, non-profit, transportation and warehousing. 

Having led large-scale, multi-year projects, Deepak is experienced in managing end-to-end IT operations including risk and compliance engagements, information security optimization, enterprise business continuity planning, vendor management, governance, IT policies/standards development and implementation, IT change management, system adoption and integration, budgeting, and IT support services. He has extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks and guidelines, including NIST, HIPAA, and HITRUST and has implemented Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platforms (Meditech, ECW), IT enterprise architecture and big data analytics.

Prior to joining BDO, Deepak was the Chief Information (CIO) & Security Officer (CISO) for the Public Health Information Exchange (HIE) of the Houston region, where he oversaw all clinical data integration projects, system, and process security. He has served as the Vice President of IT at Nexus Health Systems where he selected and carried out an EMR implementation and multilevel infrastructure improvements, including BYOD solutions, wireless and network improvements, security appliances and client computing. 

Deepak was also a business partner for an EMR platform company which developed solutions for clinical therapy staffing, home health and the hospice industry. The client/server platform was utilized by the company’s founding physician to process billing & claims and note clinical patient charts for their home health and hospice business.