Here’s How Healthcare Organizations Can Prepare for Quantum Risk

13:21 - 04 Feb 2026

It could take a supercomputer 149 million years to decrypt data that has been encrypted with the RSA-2048 public-key encryption system. A quantum computer might be able to crack that data in eight hours. While quantum computers with this capability don’t yet exist, experts predict they may become available roughly over the next decade. But the power of quantum computing represents an issue that healthcare organizations should start addressing now. “Cryptographers have known for a few decades that if we are able to build a big enough quantum computer, it will threaten all of the public-key...