Fractional & AI-native CTO
for HealthTech.
Former CTO of a healthcare EMR platform. SOC 2 Type I & II and HIPAA-grade compliance delivered across HealthTech, without slowing the roadmap.
A CTO who has shipped in healthcare.
A fractional CTO for HealthTech is an experienced Chief Technology Officer who leads a healthcare technology company part-time, bringing the compliance, integration and security judgment the industry demands without the cost of a full-time executive. In healthcare that judgment is specific: HIPAA, SOC 2, PHI security, and the legacy EMR landscape every digital health product has to live with.
I've done the job from the inside, as CTO of a healthcare EMR platform, and delivered SOC 2 Type I & II and HIPAA-grade compliance without freezing the roadmap. When the seat needs full-time coverage rather than part-time judgment, the same work runs as an interim CTO engagement. My pricing is published in the fractional CTO cost guide.
Also known as: CTO for healthcare startups, healthcare technology CTO, medtech CTO, digital health CTO, part-time HealthTech CTO.
Compliance is the gate.
And the roadmap can't stop while you clear it.
HIPAA & SOC 2 for sales
Enterprise and hospital sales stall without SOC 2 and HIPAA-grade controls. Getting there without freezing the roadmap is the real trick.
Legacy EMR & integration
Healthcare runs on legacy EMR and a thicket of integrations. Modernizing without breaking clinical workflows takes someone who's done it.
PHI security
Protected health information raises the stakes on every architectural decision, storage, access, audit, vendors. Mistakes here are existential.
AI in clinical workflows
AI can speed documentation, triage and decision support, but a human has to stay accountable for anything that touches care.
Compliance and velocity, together.
SOC 2 & HIPAA programs
Compliance programs that pass audits and unlock enterprise and hospital sales, built into delivery, not bolted on at the end.
EMR & integration
Modernize legacy EMR and integration layers without breaking the clinical workflows people depend on.
Responsible clinical AI
Bring AI into documentation, triage and decision support with PHI protected and a clinician accountable at the end.
What HealthTech founders ask.
Can you get us SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready?
Yes. I've delivered SOC 2 Type I & II across HealthTech and adjacent regulated industries and led teams under HIPAA protocols. The aim is to build compliance into how the team ships so it unlocks enterprise and hospital sales without freezing the roadmap.
Do you have healthcare platform experience?
Yes, I served as CTO of a healthcare EMR platform, modernizing an integrated care system and meeting its compliance obligations. I know EMR, integration and PHI from the inside, not from a deck.
How do you use AI safely with patient data?
By keeping PHI tightly controlled, using AI where it clearly helps, documentation, triage, decision support, and keeping a clinician accountable for anything that affects care. Evaluation, observability and access controls are built in, not assumed.
What does a fractional CTO for HealthTech cost?
The same published pricing as the rest of my work, in USD: advisory at $10,000 a month (about a day a week), the full fractional engagement at $18,000 a month (about two days), and embedded or interim leadership at $30,000 a month. A fixed-fee Diagnostic starts at $20,000. The full breakdown is in my fractional CTO cost guide.
Do you work with early-stage digital health and medtech startups?
Yes. A healthcare startup rarely needs a full-time CTO before it has real scale, but it does need HIPAA, PHI security and integration decisions made right from the start, because retrofitting compliance costs far more than designing it in. Part-time fractional leadership fits that stage.
Can you cover the CTO seat full-time during a transition?
Yes. When a HealthTech company loses its CTO or is mid-transition, I step in as an interim CTO: full-time but temporary, keeping delivery and the compliance program moving, then handing off cleanly to the permanent hire.
Building in HealthTech?
If compliance is blocking sales or legacy EMR is slowing you down, I've cleared both before.