Within the healthcare industry, mobile devices are becoming increasingly common. Medical personnel use smartphones and PDAs to communicate with others and manage their hectic schedules. While individuals use these devices for convenience, life sciences and pharmaceutical companies are using these devices to drive their business, with faster data capture and information access for sales reps and other mobile workers.

Mobility Drivers

The inadvertent exposure of electronic protected health information (EPHI) within hospitals and other healthcare organizations is a very real problem. Mobile devices, if unmanaged, can be a primary source of ePHI leaks due to device loss or theft. As such, it is no longer acceptable for compliance and security officers to rely on paper-based policies alone and sporadic device checks. The risks of failing the HIPAA mandates are too great, and the corporate and individual penalties are too high.

In the corporate world, the stakes are slightly different. Highly valuable and sometimes irreplaceable data must be protected and managed to ensure timely and cost effective completion of drug trials and other research activities as well as to ensure compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.

Click here for a detailed overview of the HIPAA Security Rule and key factors you should consider when preparing to comply with the rule.

Securing Your Mobile Workforce

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is conducting compliance audits of the HIPAA Security Rule. Are you ready?  We can help.

Trust Digital offers an enterprise mobility management platform that can be deployed enterprise-wide with policy-based mobile security management from a central console. The Trust Digital software device agent ensures that all ePHI stored on a smartphone or PDA is protected by a power-on password and automatic encryption of the device and removable media. A self-service portal enables users to report a lost device and remotely wipe it of ePHI. In addition, Trust Digital permits ePHI deletion policies based on device inactivity, password failure thresholds, and over-the-air help desk actions.

Click here to learn how Trust Digital can help lower your risk and provide HIPAA compliance for mobile devices.

Ensuring User Compliance

IT groups are well versed in the planning, implementation, support and the monitoring required to maintain control of laptop and desktop systems for HIPAA compliance. Similar controls must be implemented for mobile devices.

Trust Digital provides the most effective enterprise mobility management platform available to provide HIPAA grade security for mobility – and it is fast and easy to implement. Because HIPAA compliance is an ongoing process rather than a one-time event, the Trust Digital platform provides a comprehensive facility to manage, report and enforce security compliance.

Click here to learn more on how you can use Trust Digital to assess, secure and manage your mobile devices and the applications they access.

"I have promised America's veterans that I intend to make VA information security a model of data security, and this expedited encryption program is a major step in that direction," department Secretary R. James Nicholson said in a statement that addressed the massive laptop data breach at the Department of Veterans Affairs.  The VA relies on Trust Digital to help meet that promise.