The 2025 Imprivata State of Shared Mobile Devices in Healthcare Report reveals both opportunity and challenges for UK healthcare organisations to better leverage shared-use mobile devices in the delivery of patient care

Mellony Jewell reports back on the recent Imprivata user groups held in Dublin and Belfast

September often feels like a new year as work resumes after the summer breaks, and it was a great time to hold our Imprivata Security and Clinical Access Meetings in Belfast and Dublin. Both events gave us an opportunity to showcase our solutions, hear different customer success stories (and their challenges) and recognise the winners of our Imprivata Customer Awards.

Dublin – our inaugural event

A ransomware attack on a major aerospace company has rippled across Europe’s aviation industry, grounding flights and delaying passengers at airports from Brussels to London Heathrow. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) confirmed the arrest of a man in connection with the incident, though investigators stressed the probe remains in its early stages.

The shifting cybersecurity landscape

The cybersecurity landscape is changing quickly, but not necessarily in ways that make defenders’ jobs easier. On one hand, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 is approaching its September 30 expiration date, threatening to undercut the collaborative intelligence-sharing that has served as a critical early-warning system for the past decade.

In industries where seconds matter, workers are losing minutes, sometimes hours, trying to log in to the systems they need to do their jobs. Clinicians struggle with repeated timeouts while patients wait. Manufacturing lines stall while frontline workers reset complex passwords. Police officers face constant reauthentication that slows down reporting and response times. What was once viewed as “just an IT issue” has become, in fact, a major drag on productivity, morale, and the bottom line.