Healthcare IT News January 20, 2026
Researchers at Northeastern University, working with several healthcare organizations and health tech companies, are developing vulnerability management platforms they hope to rapidly deploy and support.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded $19 million this month to Northeastern University. The goal for ARPA-H’s Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program, which gave the funding to NU’s Archimedes Center for Healthcare and Medical Device Cybersecurity, is to develop high-fidelity digital twins that can help hospitals better defend against security threats to networks and medical devices.
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Just like a patient’s biological system, digital twins could help IT managers better understand patching impacts and help security teams, administrators and clinical staff prevent hospital disruptions, according to...
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