22/10/2026
Software dependencies are usually evaluated on what the product needs today: capability, security, integration effort, cost.
The harder question is what happens if that technology reaches end-of-support while the medical product is still deployed.
By then, replacing it may involve far more than changing code. Existing customer environments may need retesting, rollout coordination and support while the product continues operating in the field.
That future work is easy to underestimate when the dependency is first selected because the installed base does not exist yet.
For long-lived MedTech software, understanding how a critical dependency can eventually be replaced is part of understanding its real cost.