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Perspectives on Healthcare IT, clinical informatics, emerging technology, and life at the intersection of nursing and enterprise systems.

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October 20, 2026 · Certification Prep, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Healthcare IT, HIMSS Word of The Day

HIMSS Word of the Day #080: Vulnerability

In cybersecurity, a vulnerability is a weakness in a system, process, or control that a threat could exploit. This post explains how vulnerabilities relate to threats and risk, how CVE identifiers and CVSS scores help organizations prioritize, why patching is hard in hospitals, and how compensating controls protect devices that cannot be updated.

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