Protecting Your Practice from Modern AI Threats | Arash Shokouh, Ophtek
AI is becoming an integrated part of the medical industry. Practices interact with it every single day — and with that convenience comes exposure. There’s enough sensitive information flowing through these tools to cause major headaches, and in some cases bring a business to a halt.
Ophtek founder Arash Shokouh brings over 20 years of experience spanning IT, engineering, and cybersecurity to show you exactly how to get ahead of these modern threats. This session translates a fast-moving risk landscape into practical, dependable steps — including how to implement HIPAA guidelines across your practice to keep patient data protected.
Stay ahead of a fast-moving threat
The tools change constantly, but the fundamentals of protecting your practice don’t. When you know what the early warning signs look like — and have HIPAA-aligned policies in place — you can adopt new technology with confidence instead of anxiety.
Attendees will leave with a clear, actionable understanding of how to defend their practice:
- Recognize the threats — spot early warning signs, AI-driven scams, and modern viruses before they take hold.
- Protect sensitive information — understand how data theft happens, the black-market risks behind it, and the key steps to prevent it.
- Strengthen your IT policies — implement HIPAA-compliant strategies that harden your cybersecurity defenses.
- Adopt AI safely — put guardrails around the tools your team already uses every day.
The result is a practice that can embrace AI’s benefits while keeping PHI and PII secure — with minimal disruption to the work that matters. It starts with awareness, and it always should.
Objectives:
- Recognize data security threats by spotting early warning signs, AI-driven scams, and modern viruses.
- Protect sensitive information by understanding data theft, black-market risks, and key prevention steps.
- Strengthen IT policies by implementing HIPAA-compliant strategies to enhance cybersecurity defenses.
About the Speaker
Arash Shokouh is a professional speaker and the founder of Ophtek (pronounced off-tech) LLC — a technology leader with 25 years of experience spanning engineering, IT, and cybersecurity. Prior to founding Ophtek, Arash worked at IBM as a computer engineer on some of the world’s fastest data center systems. He is a published inventor on micro-processor architecture, and he lectured on Digital Design at the San José State University Computer Engineering program, where he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master of Science in Computer Engineering.
Arash’s work spans many industries, but his expertise has become especially valued in healthcare — where technology plays a direct role in patient safety, clinical efficiency, and HIPAA compliance. With a background rooted in both hands-on technical problem-solving and long-term strategic planning, he is known for translating complex technology into practical, dependable solutions for organizations across the West Coast. He has helped practices strengthen their cybersecurity posture, modernize outdated systems, and build scalable environments supporting everything from electronic health records to imaging systems to telehealth platforms — always with a commitment to reliability, transparency, and minimizing disruption.
Arash speaks regularly at business associations, non-profits, and conferences where IT compliance is paramount to protecting PHI and PII.