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The Detrimental Impact of Tech Debt in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries

Healthcare IT Today

Technical debt (tech debt), referring to the deferred maintenance and upgrades of a system, is commonly accrued in the healthcare and life sciences industries. Another factor in determining the worth of addressing vulnerabilities is the fact that consumers and patients have little tolerance for cybersecurity lapses.

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Training Your Staff From Becoming a Vulnerability to Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

By training staff effectively and adopting these safeguards, healthcare organizations can significantly reduce the risk of vulnerabilities and enhance their overall security posture.

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Key Insights and Perspectives from Day 1 at ViVE 2025

Healthcare IT Today

At the conference, we’ve been asking some of the top companies, executives, and health IT leaders to share some of their perspectives and insights on a wide variety of topics including AI, Security, workforce, leadership and more. Plus, we’re asking health IT vendors what announcements they are making at the event.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

It’s new approaches and ideas like these that will build a skilled workforce that is ready to protect the healthcare delivery system from existing and future cybersecurity threats. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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Considerations and Safeguards Addressing Potential Vulnerabilities in Connected Medical Devices and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Healthcare IT Today

Pratik Maroo, Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Zensar It is estimated that the value of medical IoT devices will be $467.25 billion by 2027. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of emerging regulations to expedite the use of IoT in the medical world.

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Rackspace Guides Customers Through Both Optimization and Innovation in the Cloud

Healthcare IT Today

” In this video, PV SubbaRao, Senior Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Rackspace, offers guidance to healthcare firms in adopting or making better use of cloud services.