Physical working environment
The healthcare industry workforce is on their shifts for 8 to 12 hours, with much of that time spent responding to immediate patient needs and emergencies. These working conditions make it easy to leave a mobile device on a counter or a table; the open nature of a hospital makes it easy for somebody to walk off with the device inconspicuously, never to be found.
Having MDM with geofencing, which uses a mobile device’s GPS to create a boundary that triggers a response when a user crosses it, can also protect the patient’s health information from leaving the healthcare facility. For example, you can set a policy that blocks access to hospital applications that contain patient’s health information from all corporate and BYOD devices running an MDM client app as soon as the user leaves your facility with the device. When they return for their next shift, the geofencing solution restores their application access.