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🚨 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.

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)

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10.

No more patches.
No more security updates.
No more compliance.

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.

You’re a small health care provider.

Maybe a rural hospital.

Maybe a behavioral health clinic.

Maybe a specialty outpatient center.

Your team might be 50–250 people. Your IT department? One person, maybe two or three — or even just a managed provider on-call.

In small health care organizations, IT is often just one person — and they’re juggling everything. Security, compliance, backups, devices, email... all while chasing down printers and resetting passwords.

And the reality is, most of these orgs don’t get enterprise resources — but are still expected to meet enterprise-level compliance.

Small health care organizations are under attack. Literally.

While headlines often focus on massive hospital systems, ransomware attackers increasingly target small clinics, practices, and rural hospitals — because they know one thing: