The pandemic promises ongoing challenges for healthcare providers in 2022 as they cope with nursing shortages and cybersecurity threats amid shifts previously underway for the industry. How they manage their clinical assets, however, can present opportunities to overcome those challenges while helping to set the stage for further healthcare changes to come.

Here are three predictions for the healthcare industry in 2022. They will come as healthcare providers realize the larger role that managing medical devices can play in their clinical engineering and cybersecurity strategies going forward. 

Health systems will approach medical-device cybersecurity more holistically

Medical device cybersecurity is a complicated task, and the escalating risks will require expertise from clinical engineering, information technology, and cybersecurity teams, both in-house and externally.

The process begins with an accurate inventory and profile of devices to assess whether a known vulnerability is present. Clinical engineering teams need to know the devices they have as well as whether they have been updated with the latest patch.

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