Healthcare’s digital journey has entered a new phase marked by intelligent, automated technologies and increasingly sophisticated cyber risks. In today’s consumer-centric, market-responsive climate, technology and operations are inseparable. As CIOs and other healthcare leaders strive to keep pace with technology and dramatic shifts in care delivery models, infrastructure has transformed from a support function to a critical enabler of modern healthcare. Providers deliver care, and infrastructure delivers digital health capability. As such, this enabling technological framework is the backbone of healthcare’s digital transformation, ensuring secure, efficient, and innovative care delivery. CHIME’s 2024 Digital Health Most Wired survey findings confirm that infrastructure is a top priority for healthcare providers — jumping to 3rd from 5th on the top priority list — as they pursue digital health transformation and strive to achieve the goal of “care anywhere.” Providers recognize the increasing importance of a dynamic, scalable, and secure infrastructure to leverage technology to deliver care wherever the patient is located, whether that’s at home, at work, or on the go.

However, this transformation is not without its challenges. The care anywhere revolution will see more mobile and remote monitoring devices trying to access networks and data from inside and outside of provider campuses, more automated and AI-driven tools accessing EHR systems, and more cyber safeguards deployed.