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SubscribeWhat we're seeing with a lot of our customer base and what we are hearing when we go to the various conferences is almost a tale of two cities. We have some people that are continuing to spend with innovation. We have some people with clinician shortages and the concerns of wage inflation. We're seeing spending in security, we're seeing them spend in R and D, some AI, even some supply chain items. What we're seeing for other groups of folks is they're really looking at making sure that their investment dollars are where they need to be.
Christine Parent, MEDITECH
Home networks are around three and a half times more likely to have malware on them than corporate networks. So think about your entire workforce at home using their own wifi routers and various states of passwords and that certainly expands the opportunity for the bad guys.
Tim Norris, RSA
A lot of the manufacturers don't have a process for updating software or technology within the medical device itself. The other challenge is there's just so many. At Cook Children's we have 20,000 medical devices on our network. If you can imagine trying to manage, keep up and ensure that they're all at the right software code levels or even just still in good functioning order. Something of that magnitude is really hard for an organization to manage when you don't have good tools to do that. So pile the security risk on with the fact that there's so many tools or devices out there today, you really kind of create this perfect storm of issues that need to be addressed in healthcare.
Theresa Meadows, Cook Children's
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