Executing A Large-Scale MDM Conversion Project

Compiled By Scott Westcott, Contributing Writer

Balancing mobile communication and data security in healthcare is a challenge, especially when your mobile device landscape is vast and varied. Here’s how Intermountain Healthcare accomplishes this feat.

For healthcare organizations, it’s all about going mobile these days — and for good reason. Mobile devices in the hands of medical professionals and staffers can boost productivity and efficiency, while fostering innovation and vastly improving connectivity and communications with patients.

The rub, of course, is that inherent portability of mobile devices — combined with the considerable amount of data and information they can contain — makes for a significant security risk. That threat was driven home recently by the massive data breach of the nation’s second largest health insurer, Anthem Inc., in which personal data of more than 80 million customers might have been compromised. Beyond the concerns of lost or stolen devices, healthcare providers also need to ensure they operate within compliance of HIPAA and other regulations.