Mobile Device Security Lacking in Hospital Policy Discussions
Even as the use of mobile health, or mHealth, technology grew over the last few years, health care executives have paid too little attention to the need for mobile device security, and existing policies are often not followed by physicians, according to presenters at the mHealth Summit 2012 as reported by Search HealthIT.
Andrew Litt, M.D., chief medical officer for Dell Healthcare, said the health care industry is currently experiencing an explosion of data resulting in part from the growing use of mobile devices and adoption of electronic health records, the article reports. The more data that organizations accumulate, the greater the need is for putting in place provisions to protect that information.