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IPad management, security crucial in hospital tablet roll out

28.08.2012
Tablets, especially iPads, have become a way of life at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center, which now issues the tablets to incoming medical students and just last month, the hospital's Department of Emergency Medicine said it's giving iPads to all 18 of its resident physicians as part of a patient-care initiative.

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The incoming class of 100 medical students now routinely receives an iPad, thanks to private funding, says Adam Gold, director of emerging technologies at , which has a hospital in Orange County and also functions as a teaching center for UC Irvine School of Medicine. The IT department there has set up document-sharing via SharePoint as part of this effort. "The entire curriculum is on the iPad," Gold says.

The iPad invasion however has prompted the network and security teams there to establish security and management guidelines. These are backed up by practical enforcement through AirWatch mobile-device management (MDM) software and Bradford Networks network-access control.

One big issue is related to how everyone from medical students and professors, to physicians and other staff caring for patients in the hospital, all were clamoring during the last year or so to be able to connect their own mobile devices of all kinds to the network. The IT department, led by the CIO, Jim Murry, went into a huddle with the clinical leadership overseeing medical , to figure out a few basic ground rules for a "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) policy.