Mid-2026 TREND REPORT · HEALTHCARE IT
State of Healthcare IT & Print Management Report
Eight forces are turning print infrastructure into a board-level security concern. This report shows you which ones — and what to do before your next OCR audit.New research drawn from IBM Security, Deloitte, Quocirca, GuidePoint Security, HHS OCR, and the Pierre Kim disclosure.
What's inside
Just 16% of IT leaders are confident in their print security. Here's why that number should worry every healthcare CIO — and the four things that fix it.
- The breach economics, updated. Why healthcare is the costliest breach target for the 14th straight year — $7.42M per incident — and what the 279-day dwell time means for unsecured endpoints.
- The cloud-only reckoning. How 83 critical vulnerabilities in a leading "serverless" print platform — some unpatched for three years — broke the assumption that cloud print is safer.
- The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule. The controls shifting from "addressable" to mandatory, and why print servers are now explicitly in scope.
- A third architectural option. How Hybrid Print Architecture keeps mission-critical print inside your perimeter — running even when the cloud doesn't.
- Your 2026 print security checklist. Twelve line items your next OCR audit will look for.
The numbers behind the report
| $7.42M | +58% | 62M | 83 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average healthcare breach cost — costliest industry, 14 years running | Rise in ransomware against healthcare in 2025 | Americans' PHI exposed in 2025 breaches | Critical CVEs in the leading cloud print platform |
