Quantum Technologies Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 2025

–Lead multistakeholder working groups to define how quantum-safe encryption integrates into emerging health interoperability standards: For health organizations, this involves incorporating quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms and QKD into the newly established protocols. –Publish healthcare industry guidelines for transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography, coordinated with NIST timelines: Organizations must adapt cryptographic solutions to meet new compliance standards without disrupting patient care. Some actions are already taking place. For instance, the FDA’s 2023 Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance9 explicitly requires manufacturers to ensure crypto agility throughout the product’s use and provides reasonable assurance that devices can be kept secure over their life cycle. –Mandate roadmap alignment for all public- funded healthcare IT projects to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness milestones: Healthcare organizations should start planning and migrating now to prepare for future regulatory readiness, mitigate the risks of “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, and maintain credibility by adopting quantum-safe encryption for their sensitive patient data. –Accelerate quantum for health public and private funding and promote quantum challenges: To unlock the value of quantum technologies, multiple public and private funding streams will be required to boost the health industry. A few funded initiatives are already under way, including governmental programmes like the NIH’s SEED programme10 and Australia’s Critical Technologies Challenge Program.11 Private initiatives such as Wellcome Leap’s Q4Bio funds might also bring transformative improvements in human health in the next five years.5.4 Enablers Quantum Technologies: Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 29