By Ben Reinberg – The next generation of healthcare real estate winners won’t simply own the best locations. They’ll own the buildings that can carry the digital infrastructure modern medicine runs on. As outpatient care keeps expanding, technology readiness is going to matter as much as tenant quality in deciding which assets perform over the long run.
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Tomorrow, October 6, 2026 1pm – 4:30pm ET – CHIME and Answers Media Network return for the second annual Cybersecurity Tactical Defense Summit, bringing together CIOs, CISOs, and IT leaders for a practical look at what healthcare organizations can do now to strengthen their defenses.
By Des Moloney – This article looks at why healthcare organizations should treat identity and access management as an organizational risk rather than simply an IT responsibility. It outlines five key questions organizations should answer for every identity to improve ownership, reduce access risk, and build a more sustainable identity program.
By Steve Akers – Healthcare security programs were built around an assumption that no longer holds everywhere: that a human sits on the other end of an attack, working at human speed and making human mistakes. That is why the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in a joint advisory this past June, told member nations plainly that the timeline for adversaries to reach this level of capability is not years. It is months.
By Mark Ferrari – Healthcare has gotten very good at producing third-party risk scores. We have platforms, dashboards, questionnaires, and assessments that can generate a number for almost any vendor relationship. Leaders like scores. They are simple. They are comparable. They fit into a dashboard and offer a way to simplify the risk of a vendor population that keeps growing.
By Lionel Litty – The incidents that slip past an organization’s defenses show up as a routine email, an ordinary link, or a file that looks exactly like the hundreds of legitimate ones an employee opens every week. Across healthcare organizations, security teams are discovering that attacks bypassing every layer of their stack trace back to the same entry point: the browser session.
By Jim Kirk – Healthcare organizations are gaining more visibility into their cybersecurity risks, but identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step. Fortified Health Security’s 2026 Mid-Year Horizon Report examines the growing gap between risk detection and remediation, and the foundational areas healthcare leaders must prioritize to strengthen cyber resilience.
By Russell Teague – Healthcare is getting better at seeing its risk. The hard part is now what we do after the finding. During the first half of 2026, organizations have been identifying more risk than ever, but they are remediating less of it according to Fortified Health Security’s rolling risk assessment data.
By Freddie Sanchez – The recent Canvas data breach sent shockwaves through education, but it’s a situation all too familiar for those of us in healthcare. For years, our industry has consistently been a top target for bad actors, and that trend is unlikely to change anytime soon.