The past few months have presented unprecedented challenges to IT organizations supporting Healthcare environments. Hospitals have seen exponential surges in both patients and demand for medical equipment, even to the point of building temporary hospitals in parking lots and convention centers. 

Although this surge is presently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation is not entirely unique in healthcare. While not to this present worldwide scale, hospitals and clinics have experienced rapid increases in activity during natural and man-made disasters, political unrest, and minor outbreaks of disease.