Private healthcare is entering a period where operational risk, cyber exposure and data quality are converging. As hospitals become more digitally dependent, the gap between OT, IT and clinical technologies is now a material threat to safety, reliability and decision-making. This article explores why convergence matters, what recent national signals tell us, and how healthcare leaders can build the foundations for confident, portfolio-wide operations.

Technology isn’t the hardest part of digital transformation, alignment is. Across healthcare and asset-intensive industries, projects fail not because of the tools, but because purpose, people, and process drift apart. This article explores how alignment of strategy, governance, and human understanding determines whether transformation succeeds or stalls.