BYOD in Healthcare
Practice of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) allows healthcare employees to bring and use their personal devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops into the work place. Their belief is that these devices boost morale and increase efficiency and productivity levels. With BYOD, healthcare providers can use and access hospital information and applications on their personal devices. However, healthcare facilities in the US and around the world continue to struggle with whether staff should use their personal mobile devices at work. While staff can use and access organization’s information and applications on their own device, use of personal devices has brought a variety of security threats for healthcare industries. According to a recent study, 4 out of 5 doctors regularly use their personal mobile devices in their workplace for health care purposes. It is with no doubt that these devices have been proven to have a variety of benefits such as fast access to medical records