For health care compliance professionals and privacy and security officials who like to make lists of issues to worry about—and what may also bedevil their peers—ECRI recently issued its 15th annual top 10 frightening information technology developments for 2022.^[1]

In all seriousness, the list is officially called the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards, and it reflects the expertise and insight of ECRI’s engineers, scientists, clinicians and other patient safety analysts, as well as its external advisers. As ECRI explained in a publicly available summary of the report, issued Jan. 18, “all the topics we select for the list must, to some degree, be preventable,” but other criteria include the breadth, severity and “insidiousness” of an issue.^[2]