A toolkit for effective and secure use of mobile technology
The mHealth toolkit provides general practices already utilising mHealth with an opportunity to review and enhance their existing activities to ensure they are safe, secure and compliant with privacy and security legislation.
Mobile technology has become part of our everyday lives and it is not an overstatement to suggest it has revolutionised the way we communicate and live our lives.
Despite the itinerant nature of general practice, which goes far beyond the clinic walls and into patient homes, community care facilities and hospitals, adoption of mobile technology within the profession is a recent phenomenon.
mHealth in general practice: A toolkit for effective and secure use of mobile technology provides information and instructions for anyone considering incorporating mobile technology into general practice.
It is designed to help you do so easily, effectively and securely – with minimal ‘tech’ expertise.
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Security considerations when using mobile devices
Audio Transcript.
Security considerations when using mobile devices
Trina: So there are many and varied risks - and benefits - with using mobile technology for work purposes. We're not talking about using your private mobile phone at work for private things. We're actually talking about using mobile devices for work based things. So first of all they can get lost, they can get easily broken into, they're much easier to hack than a desktop computer system with perimeter controls.
Also what they're used for, and one of the most common things we think that they used for, is taking photos of lesions, or bottles of pills, or drug charts, or stuff. And then the trouble is that these then get sent unencrypted so they can get hacked during the transfer, during the transmission, so that information is not secure. You need to be very careful about what they're used for.
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