Christopher Sullivan

Christopher Sullivan, PhD is the CEO of HIPAA Risk Analytics LLC. The organization spent five years developing an Online security risk assessment (SRA) in collaboration with Connecting Healthcare®. Christopher is also the CEO of Image Research, a communication consulting firm that specializes in medical informatics, HIPAA privacy and security, the Meaningful Use (MU) program, the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Health Information Exchange, Telehealth, and health data analysis.

Christopher has three decades of experience in academics, health-related management in Florida government and health care facilities, software development, and multivariate data analysis. Christopher is an expert in CMS quality reporting programs and assists Florida ambulatory providers in completing annual CMS attestation and Security RIsk Assessment reporting.

As an Adjunct Professor, Christopher taught or is teaching courses in Public Health Informatics at Nova Southeastern University, Courses in Telecommunications and Networking in Health Care for the Biomedical Informatics at College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Courses in Health Information Management, Electronic Health Records and Privacy, and Security at Florida International University (FIU). Christopher has co-authored white papers for HIMSS, AHIMA, and the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).