Healthcare's highly skilled clinical practitioners use mobile technology to improve health, ease suffering and routinely make life-and-death decisions.
Highly skilled healthcare IT professionals use mobility management platforms and Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions to improve practitioner and patient end-user experience while protecting valuable data assets.
Mobility management platforms make life easier for healthcare IT professionals by centralizing mobility management integrations with wireless carriers, EMM solutions, corporate HR systems and more. An effective solution allows mobility program administrators to achieve enhanced control, greater visibility, reduced costs and increased efficiencies when managing mobile devices.
EMM solutions segment a device user's personal information from the enterprise data and encrypt any sensitive corporate files, allowing the IT team to selectively wipe enterprise data if the device is lost or stolen or if the employee leaves the organization. Only enterprise data is removed, leaving personal information untouched.
Mobility strategy for healthcare organizations should effectively impact care delivery, but offer other advantages too. We've uncovered six key benefits for healthcare organizations that employ a healthy mobility strategy when using both a mobility management platform and an EMM solution:
1. Rapid access to critical records
As mobile devices continue to permeate the industry, they are moving closer to the point of care, meaning clinicians no longer have to rely on stationed devices or computers to retrieve patient-specific information. Healthy mobility strategy allows professionals to make the best clinical decisions by ensuring electronic health records are accessible at the right time and place. Additionally, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act requires all public and private healthcare providers and other eligible professionals to utilize electronic health records in order to maintain Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement levels.
2. Streamlined end-user experience
The risk of not updating a mobility policy is having a healthcare workforce with a fragmented implementation of various mobile technologies. Practitioners will have to carry multiple devices, each having unique access requirements and user interfaces. A healthy mobility strategy can lead to a unified method with a single sign-on approach and a streamlined user experience.
3. Valuable data asset protection
An Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution is an integral part of an effective mobility strategy. EMM allows organizations to partition and secure applications that access valuable data assets, giving them complete enterprise application access and control. While EMM is an integral part of a successful mobility strategy, integration with a mobility management platform ensures an effective end-user experience for both clinical practitioners and patients.
4. Multiple program management
Many physicians use more than one hospital network, and therefore, prefer to bring their own devices to work. While a BYOD approach might be a great fit for physicians who work with more than one clinical facility or network, most healthcare devices (such as tablets, laptops, portable stations and medical devices) are corporate-owned. Without a mobility strategy that includes mobility management platform expertise, managing two programs can quickly become tedious. A platform solution allows IT staff to transition end users from one program to another while ensuring policy and procedure adherence along the way.
5. Cost center expense assignment accuracy
Pulling data from multiple carrier portals – in varying formats – is a lengthy and expensive process. A healthy mobility strategy leveraging a mobility management platform allows administrators to normalize data across carriers, making it faster and easier for finance teams to reconcile expenses and invoices with organizational cost centers. Through a combination of automated and manual analysis of the normalized data, errors and inconsistencies can be located and programs can be protected from waste and overspend resulting from inefficient user plans or features.
6. Centralized device management
In a clinical environment, different roles require different devices to be successful. The ability for administrators to access device inventories anytime, anywhere with a successful mobility management platform can be invaluable. An effective platform-driven strategy streamlines device lifecycle management from procurement and configuration to decommissioning and recycling while eliminating program confusion and waste as a result.
A healthy mobility strategy provides many benefits for a healthcare organization, including practitioner experience improvements and increased patient safety and quality of care. Whether exploring mobility management for the first time or simply seeking improvements for a mature program's performance, use this list to begin the conversation with your (potential) mobility partner.
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