Survey: Many Hospitals Allow Workers To Use Personal Mobile Devices

About 85% of hospital-based IT professionals say their organization embraces  “bring your own device” — or BYOD — policies that allow employees to use  their personal mobile devices at work, according to a survey by Aruba Networks, Computerworld reports (Mearian, Computerworld,  2/24).

For the survey, Aruba Networks interviewed more than 130 hospital-based  health IT professionals.

Levels of Access

Although 85% of respondents said their organization has a BYOD policy, the  organizations varied in the amount of data they allowed personal mobile devices  to access. The survey found that:

• 53% of respondents said their organization only allows personal mobile  devices to access the Internet;
• 24% said their organization provides personal mobile devices with limited  access to hospital applications; and
• 8% said their organization provides personal mobile devices with full access  to the hospital network (Dolan, MobiHealthNews, 2/23).

Types of Mobile Devices Supported

The survey also found that:

• 83% of respondents said their organization supports Apple iPads;
• 65% said their organization supports Apple iPhones and iPod Touches;
• 52% said their organization supports Blackberry devices; and
• 46% said their organization supports Android-based devices.

Additional Findings

The survey found that electronic health record applications are the most  widely supported application on mobile devices, with 60% of respondents saying  their organization supports the use of mobile EHR apps. The next most widely  supported mobile apps include picture archiving and communication systems,  secure messaging and voice-over IP (Computerworld, 2/24).

The survey also found that more than 75% of respondents said their  organization provides Internet access to patients and hospital visitors, but 58%  said they use open networks without password protection to do so (Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare, 2/23).

Source: iHealthBeat

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