MedCity News is providing in-depth coverage of HIMSS2012 as part of a special series sponsored by Hyland Software.
Think of it like Wonder Woman’s bullet proof bracelets.
Boxtone, fresh off an announcement with Motorola and Verizon at HIMSS2012 to offer security for Android phones, says it will in the next month roll out a new feature to all of its customers that automatically adds new security to any healthcare app.
“Up to this point it’s been too difficult and not securable for hospital IT to push mobility aggressively,” said Joel Weinshank, BoxTone’s director of marketing.
The service will come out “sometime this quarter,” Weinshank said.
BoxTone is an enterprise mobile security company that moved into the healthcare sector in the last two years. Essentially, what the new BoxTone service will do is take an app after it’s created and add additional layers of security. Along with that, it will allow health system to control how the data and app are used. For example, it can determine who can access an app (an entire cardiology department versus the entire hospital system), what time the app can be used, where it can be used and whether someone can cut and paste data from the app.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The heavily regulated environment has made it difficult for hospitals to apply broader mobile solutions. That need for security has forced an increased need for control in health IT environments. But that conflicts directly with physicians and others, who want to apply the mobile solutions on devices they are already using.
“If IT had their way, everyone would have a Blackberry, it would be corporately owned and no one would have apps,” Weinshank said. “But physicians like what they like.”
Hyland Software is the developer of OnBase Enterprise Content Management Solutions.
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