GEC NEWS WIREStudy shows over a third of the medical workers regularly share their passwords, assuming IT departments will ‘have it covered’
Healthcare organizations are ill prepared for the high-risk mind-set of the GenMobile workforce with a lack of security procedures in place to protect a new, more collaborative digital generation entering the workforce. The ‘Security Risk Index Survey’ conducted in mid 2015 revealed overall employee attitudes are swaying towards a more security-agnostic healthcare workplace, full of risk-prone sharing behaviours, with the trend having the potential to be contagious.
In an industry where more than a third (35%) of medical professionals reporting that their organization uses mobile apps to interact with patients, only three quarters of work mobile devices is password protected. The study, of over 1000 healthcare workers worldwide, goes on to highlight three key trends that show how #GenMobile is paving the way for risk-prone behaviour in the medical industry.
Jacob Chacko, Business Lead – SMB & Commercial, Middle East & Turkey at Aruba says “Drastic efficiency improvements can be made by embracing the connected mobile behaviours of the younger generation. This can help reduce misdiagnosis levels, whilst real time data can provide a greater level of patient health monitoring.”
