The demand being placed on networks is growing, as healthcare organizations move toward adopting even more sophisticated, data-intensive technologies. So IT must plan both proactively and comprehensively, to minimize the network's vulnerabilities in a timely way both today and tomorrow.

This executive summary discusses:

• The big mistake healthcare execs are making with network technology planning
• Results from this year's "Modernizing IT to Transform the Healthcare Enterprise" survey
• The need for a unified security platform to include threat containment across third party devices
• The top four considerations for addressing future network needs