Worth the Risk? Bringing Disease into Hospitals via Mobile Devices

Mobile devices have the potential to optimize healthcare delivery by bringing the patient record to the point of service. Unfortunately, most consumer mobile devices do not inherently have the level of security to comply with HIPAA standards. Additionally, mobile devices are breeding grounds for different diseases. While data security is an important issue for all enviroments, biosecurity is unique to the healthcare environment and carries severe consequences for hospitals. This research note will:

-Define the biosecurity issue and why IT should care.
-Explain how other sectors have dealt with the IT security issues.
-Determine a strategy that IT can use as part of mobile device management policy.

Mobile device use in hospitals needs a strong set of controls that can be linked to hospital infectious disease. IT can use this as a basis for the adoption of underlying data security protocols. Visit http://www.infotech.com/research/it-worth-the-risk-bringing-disease-into-hosp... for more on this topic.

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Science & Technology

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• phr
• ehr
• hipaa
• health-care
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• rhio
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• hospitals
• network-access-control
• health-records
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• patient-care
• icd-10
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• consumerization
• e-health-records
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