healthcare IT design Archives - HIT Leaders and News https://us.hitleaders.news/tag/healthcare-it-design/ Healthcare Innovations and technology news and views Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:51:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Shadow Code, Part I: The Unofficial Systems Running American Healthcare https://us.hitleaders.news/clinical-it/48629/shadow-code-part-i-the-unofficial-systems-running-american-healthcare/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shadow-code-part-i-the-unofficial-systems-running-american-healthcare Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:11:41 +0000 https://us.hitleaders.news/?p=48629 When Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago suffered a crippling ransomware attack, the media focused on the outage and the recovery timeline. But investigators quietly flagged a deeper issue: several clinical teams had been relying on unapproved scheduling spreadsheets and unsecured workarounds, introduced without IT oversight and operating in parallel to enterprise systems. These tools, collectively known as shadow systems, weren’t part of the hospital’s official infrastructure. But they were running it just the same.

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