Demand for Bring Your own Device policies is growing, yet healthcare IT leaders still seek strategic ways to address related security and infrastructural support concerns.
Vocera Communications conducted a survey of more than 100 healthcare IT leaders at the 2015 HIMSS Conference to gauge insight into BYOD strategies, demands and preferences.
Here are six key findings from the survey.
- Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) said their organization supports BYOD policies, whether purposefully or by default.
- However, 73 percent of survey respondents said secure texting and messaging in EHRs, which become more prevalent when BYOD programs are in place, are pain points requiring extensive IT support.
- BYOD appears to remain low on IT leaders' priority list, as just 26 percent of survey respondents said their organizations have a platform or plan to implement a platform to support secure communication within the EHR.
- Nearly four out of 10 respondents said they do not have a solution to support affiliated, non-employed physicians who seek work-related IT applications on their personal mobile devices.
- What's more, 63 percent of respondents said they don't have plans to make affiliated physician BYOD policies a priority until after 2015.
- BYOD is here to stay — just 10 percent of survey respondents believe the trend is on the decline, and 68 percent said their organizations will fully support BYOD by 2018.
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