Ben Dyar

Ben Dyar is the Director of the Virtual Information Security Program at Fortified Health Security. Ben has over four years of experience in the development and management of new and existing client partnerships, including business development, proposal development, C-level relationship management, engagement leadership, and multi-project management.

Ben has worked with hospitals, providers, business associates, life sciences, big-data providers, and HIEs to secure strategy initiatives, BI initiatives, security, privacy, breach, policy and procedure, ICD-10, and HIPAA regulatory compliance professional services. Ben has served as a HIPAA Compliance Practice Leader and an Engagement Leader for the HIE Health Information Exchange Enterprise Security. In these roles, they were responsible for managing engagements with leading SaaS HIE vendors, facilitating strategic and collaborative partnerships with client-partner teams, and overseeing vendor management of HIPAA security risk analysis, ISO27001, and SSAE 16 audits.

Additionally, Ben has led HIPAA security risk analysis engagements with multi-facility hospitals and business associates. These engagements included top-down security environment reviews, bottom-up HIPAA security risk analyses, and HIPAA security policy assessments. Ben has also conducted ICD-9 to ICD10 readiness assessments and compliance initiatives for Multi-Hospital IDS systems, which included five hospitals and over 160 physician clinics.

Ben Dyar has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Ben is certified in electronic health records and healthcare IT from the Athena Healthcare Ambulatory Certification program in Salem, Oregon.

Ben Dyar reports to Dan L. Dodson, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Russell Teague - VP, Advisory Services, Julia White - EVP, Sales & Marketing, and William Crank - COO.