111 | Analyses

Quick recap: The conversation between Neil Peters-Michaud and David Daoud covered a range of topics related to the IT industry. They discussed the importance of transparency and sharing information to improve industry standards, the evolution of IT asset management...

In 2022 healthcare institutions that were found non-compliant with HIPAA laws paid penalties averaging $98,000, with highest fine going as far as $6.8 million.  In this analysis, we look at one key problem that is often a major source of nightmare for legal and compliance officers in the healthcare sector and with implications related to their IT and data-bearing devices disposition function, known as ITAD. This analysis lists the areas that healthcare leaders need to be concerned with when retiring their computers, mobile devices and other IT equipment, and shows how many healthcare institutions face major fines for non compliance.

The analysts in this session looked at the factors that could influence the performance of the IT asset disposal industry and concluded that we should probably not expect a lot to take place in the first half of 2024, but things should heat up in the second half, and more precisely starting as late as mid-November. So patience and endurance will be require for ITAD vendors that really want to thrive in the years ahead.

As the IT disposition and recycling industries enter 2024 and beyond, there is no shortage of issues they will confront, including how to think about the evolution of the PC and IT equipment and tehchnologies. End-users should brace for a plethora of changes, driven by the AI revolution and the shift to Windows 11. Our guest Bob O’Donnell has had a front seat view of what is happening in the broad tech space, and in this podcast Bob and David of Compliance Standards’ ITAD.Academy discuss what the PC and device industry is working on and how 2024 could look like.