Oliver Wyman June 17, 2025
Adam Harpool, Nikhil Sarathi, Eric Lu, and Paul Mee

Outdated IT assets aren’t just a cybersecurity vulnerability or operational drag; they’re an increasing risk to care delivery. Here’s what to do about it.

The ongoing dynamic pursuit of innovation in healthcare, involving rapid deployment of the latest and greatest piece of technology, is distracting from a major problem lurking beneath the surface — the use of IT systems that are at or past their end of life.

Our work across several regional health systems revealed that over 30% of information technology assets on average are past end of life — including critical clinical systems and biomedical devices. This includes unsupported operating systems, aging servers with no patch pathway, and diagnostic tools that cannot integrate with current electronic health record...

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