I think at its very nature, healthcare data and especially clinical data is just messy. It's unstructured and it's being captured by a lot of different people about a lot of different patients that are a highly varied population.

Paula Edwards, Himformatics

A lot of the manufacturers don't have a process for updating software or technology within the medical device itself. The other challenge is there's just so many. At Cook Children's we have 20,000 medical devices on our network. If you can imagine trying to manage, keep up and ensure that they're all at the right software code levels or even just still in good functioning order. Something of that magnitude is really hard for an organization to manage when you don't have good tools to do that. So pile the security risk on with the fact that there's so many tools or devices out there today, you really kind of create this perfect storm of issues that need to be addressed in healthcare.

Theresa Meadows, Cook Children's

What COVID-19 has done is exposed many organizations to structural weaknesses that they're going to have to deal with at some point, especially in terms of their readiness for digital health. All health systems must invest in developing a digital roadmap.

Paddy Padmanabhan, Damo Consulting