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Varun Deshpande

Hospital Chief Information Security Officer

3 articles for HealUDoc

Varun Deshpande is a Hospital Chief Information Security Officer writing for HealUDoc on health it & security. They have contributed 3 articles to the HealUDoc library.

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Vendor Security Due Diligence Before You Sign an HMS ContractHealth IT & Security

Vendor Security Due Diligence Before You Sign an HMS Contract

Most hospital software contracts are evaluated on features and price, and the security questions get asked after the first incident. Twenty questions worth asking first, what a good answer looks like, and which claims are worth verifying rather than accepting.

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Varun Deshpande

Jun 28, 2026 · 11 min read

Hospital Ransomware Readiness: A Hardening and Recovery PlanHealth IT & Security

Hospital Ransomware Readiness: A Hardening and Recovery Plan

What publicly reported Indian hospital incidents exposed, turned into a hardening plan: immutable backups, segmentation, privileged access control, patching around vendor constraints, tabletop exercises and the recovery sequence.

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Varun Deshpande

Apr 5, 2026 · 12 min read

CERT-In Incident Reporting for Hospitals: The Six-Hour ClockHealth IT & Security

CERT-In Incident Reporting for Hospitals: The Six-Hour Clock

The CERT-In directions of April 2022 apply to hospitals, not only to IT companies. Here is what starts the six-hour reporting clock, which incidents are reportable, who owns the runbook, and what the report has to contain.

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Varun Deshpande

Mar 8, 2026 · 11 min read

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