JourneyCare Achieves HIPAA Compliance On Mobile Devices In The Field

The Challenge: Supporting Nurses in the Field While Safeguarding Patient Data

JourneyCare is a not-for-profit agency headquartered in Barrington, Ill. For over 30 years, JourneyCare has provided pain and symptom management and end of life expertise to young and old in 10 Illinois counties.

When nurses in the field began utilizing company-owned mobile devices to access patient data and complete point-of-care charting, JourneyCare recognized the need to increase security in order to maintain HIPAA compliance.

In addition to the challenge of supporting a remote network of nurses in the field, JourneyCare needed to address the stringent guidelines for information security outlined by HIPAA. As a non-profit agency that handles sensitive personal health information on a daily basis, protecting corporate data is of the utmost importance. A data breach would not only result in extensive fines for JourneyCare, but also compromise its reputation in the field and the funding required to provide end of life care for its patients.

JourneyCare’s IT team recognized the need for a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution to securely support its field organization without incurring the additional costs of implementing an on-site solution.

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