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🏷️ The 2025 Budget Squeeze: A Survival Guide for Small Health Care IT Leaders and Execs

🚨 Budget Pressures Are Converging — Fast

Small health care IT teams — rural hospitals, clinics, long-term care — are facing a perfect storm in 2025. Budgets are tighter. Regulations stricter. Vendor costs rising. And multiple industry shifts are hitting all at once:


💻 Windows 10 End-of-Life

October 2025: Microsoft ends Windows 10 security updates. Unsupported PCs = compliance risk, security risk, and operational risk.

🚨 Critical DHCP Issues After June 2025 Patch Tuesday – What You Need to Know 🚨

Heads up for IT teams: Microsoft has officially acknowledged issues with DHCP Server services following the latest June 2025 cumulative updates for Windows Server.

🖥️ Affected Versions:

  • Windows Server 2016 (KB5061010)

🩺 Healthcare IT Alert: BitLocker Lockouts Tied to Recent Windows Patch

A recently released Windows update — KB5058379 — is triggering unexpected BitLocker recovery screens for systems using Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT).

✅ Think Your Org’s Outbound Email Is Protected? 5 Quick Ways to Check

If you're a health care IT manager, director, or executive in a small organization, you've probably been sold on an email system that is "HIPAA-compliant."

You might have even been sold on how “seamless” it is — with no portals or passwords required.

Sounds great.

But behind that smooth sales pitch, there’s often a very costly gray area — and it's small organizations that are poised to pay the price.