Erik Decker is vice president and chief information security officer at Intermountain Health, a multistate integrated delivery network, and is one of the nation’s most influential leaders in healthcare cybersecurity.
With roughly 25 years in information technology and nearly two decades focused on security, he has built information security and identity-management programs at major academic medical centers, including service as chief security and privacy officer at the University of Chicago Medicine.
In addition to his leadership at Intermountain Health, Mr. Decker chairs the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council’s Joint Cybersecurity Working Group, a public-private partnership representing hundreds of organizations and more than a thousand members. He also co-leads the federal 405(d) task group, which develops cybersecurity practices for the health sector under the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. He has testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and advised a White House summit on healthcare cybersecurity.
Mr. Decker’s recognitions include the Malcolm Baldrige Foundation Award for Leadership Excellence in Cybersecurity. He earned a master’s in information technology from Loyola University Chicago and a bachelor’s in cell and structural biology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His work bridges day-to-day enterprise security operations with national health-sector policy, and he is widely regarded as a trusted voice on protecting patient data and critical clinical infrastructure.