ECRI put misuse of AI chatbots at the top of its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2026, warning that chatbots can provide false or misleading information leading to patient harm, and citing that more than 40 million people a day turn to one model for health information. The same list ranked cybersecurity risk from legacy medical devices at number eight, and unpreparedness for a total network outage, a digital darkness event, at number two.
ECRI's list is read by hospital risk and biomedical teams, so when AI and device security both appear on it, that is your buyers being told by a trusted source to ask you hard questions. The through-line across all three items: technology that fails quietly, whether a hallucinating chatbot or an unpatched legacy device, is the kind that hurts someone before anyone notices.