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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

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By training staff effectively and adopting these safeguards, healthcare organizations can significantly reduce the risk of vulnerabilities and enhance their overall security posture. To increase transparency, leadership teams should map out production sites, distribution centers, and material flows against potential hazards.

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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

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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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Healthcare’s Security Paradox: Most Targeted, Least Prepared

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This will require leadership commitment, structural changes, and a willingness to embrace new approaches to security management. For healthcare leaders, the message is clear: the cost of maintaining the status quo now outweighs the challenges of transformation.

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

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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

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” 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.