Speed is one of the most misunderstood goals in healthcare software. Teams adopt FHIR, pick a modern platform, expect momentum, and… stall when compliance, access control, and operations surface late.

Healthcare is one of the most targeted industries for cyberattacks. In 2025 alone, hundreds of large breaches exposed tens of millions of patient records. For many organizations, the weak point was unclear or inconsistent encryption.

Ever feel like building healthcare software means you’re shipping two products: the one users see, and the compliance-heavy infrastructure underneath?
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Only 8% of physicians report “ideal interoperability” for test results from outside health systems, according to the Jama Network. And even for encounter documents, it tops out at 19%.

About 190 million people were affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack in February 2024, according to an updated estimate from its parent company, UnitedHealth.

An EHR switch can either fix daily friction or quietly create new risks. In 2025, fewer than four in ten healthcare organizations report that their recent EHR implementations actually met clinicians’ needs, even as digital records are nearly universal.

In the U.S., the HHS Office for Civil Rights documented 725 large healthcare data breaches in a single year, each affecting 500+ people, the HIPAA Journal reported.

Healthcare remains the most expensive industry for data breach recovery, averaging $9.77 million per breach, according to IBM. That number lands hard because it often means operational disruption, delayed care, and months of cleanup for teams that were already stretched.

Custom healthcare software development started to gain momentum during the COVID-19 season and will continue to improve, changing the future of medicine.

Software is now prescribed alongside pills and therapy. However, most digital health products never make it that far. They stall at regulatory review, fail to prove clinical value, or get rejected by clinicians who cannot fit them into daily practice.

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