Fran Rosch is the CEO of Imprivata, a digital identity company for life- and mission-critical industries.

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. We in fact got so many responses to our prompt this year, that we have had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

Experts share predictions and strategies for safeguarding the future from AI-driven attacks to post-quantum challenges.

HHS is proposing major changes to HIPAA for the first time in more than a decade, aiming to strengthen cybersecurity protocols for electronic health data. Healthcare cybersecurity leaders are mainly in favor of the proposal — though there are some concerns that smaller providers will struggle with the financial and operational burdens of compliance.

Among myriad acronyms in the healthcare industry, HIPAA is one of the most referenced. 

The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving, but one thing remains consistent — cyber threats are rising, and so is their price tag. Industry analysts predicted cybercrime damage to cost $9.5 trillion in 2024, more than triple what it was less than a decade ago.