5 steps to embrace mobility in health care

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Mobility is transforming health care as clinicians adopt new working methods and devices to provide better care, faster to patients everywhere. Now clinicians of all generations want to access their applications and data on any device, even those personally purchased over any network

The principles of successful mobility and BYOD are simple :. People can choose a device for work, including the same devices they use in their personal lives, and can move seamlessly through personal devices and issued company. He wins a simple way to provide requested data, applications and desktops to any device over any connection, while maintaining consistent and effective security, policy enforcement, compliance and control.

To reap the benefits of BYOD while avoiding potential risks, you need to develop a structured strategy to meet people involved policies and technologies. These five simple steps provide a rational approach to plan, define and implement a BYOD initiative in your healthcare organization

Step 1 -. Understand best practices in the industry

Mobile devices are already playing a central role in many health care organizations that have had to rethink traditional best practices to enable their safe use. While organizations have in the past tended to focus on the control devices, the latest best practices extend beyond device management to address the management of applications and data access to clinicians who move a hospital room office at the clinic. As a wider range of healthcare applications is available from existing internal applications to SaaS and mobile applications, health care providers must be able to quickly and easily access all the resources they need on everything device so they can stay focused on their patients. With enterprise mobility management, IT can enable people to do more with their mobile devices than would be possible or feasible through a management approach based on the single device

Step 2 - Get stakeholder buy-in

While most of the health care industry professionals have at least anecdotal appreciation of the growing role of mobility, they can not understand how he became or appreciate the urgency of introducing more coherent and comprehensive policies around him. Key constituents and employees across areas such as IT, security, human resources and legal, as well as key medical personnel such as chief medical and chief nursing officer, should be engaged early in the process to discuss the needs of the organization, serving the champion with clinicians, and help define policies for the use of mobile devices and consumer, both companies owned or BYOD. Clinicians, administrators and business personnel should also be interviewed to get an idea of ​​their level of interest, needs and preferences

Step 3 -. Defining the policy of your organization

Your policy should aim to empower clinicians with mobile access to the resources they need to provide optimal care, and provide the company with staff mobility and flexibility similar to help your organization deliver patient-centered care more efficiently. At the same time, you have to protect the organization and the privacy of its patients and raise awareness on the responsible use of personal devices for work purposes. Your BYOD policy should address areas including the eligibility of employees, trusted devices, service and application availability, device and user support, cost sharing, security and compliance, and legal conditions of use

Stage 4 -. Grow your technology strategy

The technologies required to simplify and securely enable mobility on any device include management of enterprise mobility, desktop virtualization and application sharing files, social collaboration, remote support and networking of clouds. These solutions are discussed in detail in the next section of this document

Step 5 -. Prepare for a successful deployment

To promote the successful adoption, you must formalize your deployment plan and create resources that make it easy for clinicians and other staff to learn about mobility and access everything they need to start. To BYOD, this should include the establishment of registration procedures, by providing tools that enable self-supply, and establishing levels of support and maintenance.

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