Has the time come for BYOD?
Effective Jul 2, 2012
Published Sep 1, 2012
Two years after the debut of the iPad®, the devices are making inroads in all aspects of society, and healthcare is no exception. Tablets and other larger-screen devices are often able to fit into the IT picture with relatively little work. Those who are benefiting now had a virtual desktop strategy already in place.
It will take longer for vendors and healthcare IT leaders to truly leverage the power and ease of use of these devices, and for now there may be a bit of cat-and-mouse game. Rogue innovator-clinicians are being tempted by an ever-increasing number of cloud and device apps available over the Web outside traditional IT approval, while network managers rely on increasingly clever network application monitoring tools to identify protected health information being inappropriately captured, analyzed, and transmitted by these new apps.
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