Inflection Point for Healthcare Technology

Most Important Today

• ★ Providing Access to Archived Legacy Data While Saving Costs and Reducing Risk (17 Nov 2025) — John Lynn
  Legacy Data Access argues that archived clinical, financial, and operational data is an underused asset, and outlines approaches to provide secure, governed access without increasing breach risk while lowering costs by decommissioning legacy systems.

  Why It Matters: Decommissioning legacy apps while maintaining secure, role-based access to historical data can cut millions in run costs, reduce breach surface, and accelerate ROI on migrations—if governance, auditability, and legal/records workflows are built in.

• ★ Kneu Health Secures $5.6M to Scale Next-Generation Neurology Care (17 Nov 2025) — Healthcare IT News
  Kneu raises funds to expand a smartphone-based platform (FDA-cleared for Parkinson’s tremor) that tracks motor, speech, and cognitive changes, with reported adoption across major U.S. health systems and NHS Trusts.

  Why It Matters: Clinically validated, phone-based biomarkers can extend scarce neurology capacity, but leaders must plan EHR integration, remote monitoring workflows, device equity, and data governance to translate signals into outcomes and reimbursement.

Other Healthcare Technology

• Virtual MSK Went Mainstream, but Real Access is Still Missing (17 Nov 2025) — Guest Author
  A critique of virtual musculoskeletal platforms notes low patient engagement despite strong funding and hype, calling for better access design, integration with care teams, and measurable outcomes to drive real utilization.

  Why It Matters: Adoption—not just availability—drives value; tie MSK tools to care pathways, benefits design, and clinician workflows, and measure functional outcomes to justify spend and reduce total MSK costs.

• Why Cleveland Clinic’s CEO is bullish on the next era of medicine (17 Nov 2025) — Laura Dyrda
  Cleveland Clinic’s CEO highlights an inflection point for healthcare technology, emphasizing AI and data-driven approaches to tackle clinician shortages, access challenges, and rising costs.

  Why It Matters: Board-level commitment to AI and automation signals near-term scaling; CIOs should harden data platforms, institute AI governance, and prioritize use cases that boost capacity and quality while managing risk.

Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective

Today’s themes point to pragmatic modernization: secure legacy data access to de-risk and fund transformation, scale specialty care via validated remote monitoring, and focus virtual care on engagement and measurable outcomes. With CEOs signaling an AI-driven inflection, CIOs should align roadmaps to near-term ROI—decommissioning legacy systems, integrating remote diagnostics into workflows, and tightening governance to safely operationalize AI at scale.