Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2026 Health IT Predictions
As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2026 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year, and boy, did they deliver. We, in fact, got so many responses to our prompt this year that we have had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2026 Health IT Predictions!
Check out our community’s healthcare cybersecurity predictions:
Erik Littlejohn, CEO at CloudWave
Cybercriminals are now operationalizing AI to automate reconnaissance, bypass traditional, signature-based identity controls, and craft highly convincing phishing and social engineering attempts. Alarmingly, these new AI-powered attack methodologies can also adapt dynamically to avoid detection.