mobile healthcare security

HIMSS: Most hospitals still developing mobile policies

By Neil Versel 01:59 am December 8, 2011

How ubiquitous is mobility in healthcare? In a new survey from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), just five of the 164 mostly hospital-based respondents said that no group of professionals in their organizations used mobile devices to access information necessary for their everyday activities. And just one was an organization with no plans to offer mobile access to...

CHIME focus group shows fine line between security and usability

By Neil Versel 03:28 am November 3, 2011

You know something has caught on in health IT when healthcare CIOs start talking about it. And when vendors are willing to shell out big bucks to hear hospital-based IT administrators share their opinions on it. By that measure, mobile access to hospital networks is very much a mainstream idea now. I come to this conclusion after sitting in on a Compuware focus group with a baker's dozen of CIOs...