Your patients deserve fast and easy access to the best possible care. They should also feel confident their personal information is under lock and key every step of the way. This is a fine line that healthcare workers walk every day.
Finding the right balance between data accessibility and protection is key to empowering clinicians and nurses to perform their best work and maintain patient privacy at the same time. However, healthcare organizations face multiple challenges that make this difficult, including an overstretched workforce, regulatory complexity and sophisticated cyberattacks.
Strengthening healthcare data security and enhancing clinical workflows can be accomplished in tandem when you invest in secure clinical devices like Samsung Galaxy A17 5G that are designed to streamline information management while also securing patient data. Here’s how.
Why secure clinical devices answer healthcare challenges
The most successful healthcare organizations benefit from a secure, future-ready mobility platform that helps deliver both quality care and data security.
Samsung Galaxy A17 5G is the perfect example. Built to endure the rigors of clinical environments, the mobile device delivers robust, real-time patient data protection in a number of ways:
Knox security
Galaxy A17 5G is backed by defense-grade security of Samsung Knox, which protects device from the chip up. Samsung Knox’s cloud-based approach to patient data protection includes a wide range of tools, including:
- Data vaults
- Isolated processors
- Multiple encryption layers
- Device health monitoring
- Real-time kernel protection
- Advanced virtual private networks
Knox was developed for organizations with the most stringent security protocols, including healthcare ones. That’s why Knox is a powerful partner to help ensure HIPAA compliance. Galaxy A17 5G helps keep this for the long term, as the mobile device comes with six years of OS and security updates.
Secure file sharing
Clinicians are always on the move, whether it’s checking on patients during rounds or focusing on life-saving medical procedures in the operating room. Wherever they travel, sensitive patient data goes with them. It’s essential that data remains secure as they do, and U.S. law requires it.
Those using Galaxy A17 5G can rest assured. Let’s say a doctor wants to use the mobile device’s triple-lens camera to capture images like skin lesions or wounds to share with remote colleagues for a second opinion. Using the Private sharing feature within Quick Share, they are able to encrypt file transfers to prevent recipients from saving and sharing them, or taking screenshots.
Private sharing allows healthcare professionals to set expiration dates for files, too. These include images, videos, audio notes and documents — up to 20 files and 200MB of data at a time. Note that Private sharing is available only between Samsung Galaxy devices.
Auto Blocker
Samsung’s One UI operating system (OS), which works in conjunction with the Android OS, comes with a security feature called Auto Blocker. It prevents the installation of apps from unauthorized sources and actively checks for malware.
Auto Blocker can even prevent threat actors from sending malicious commands through USB cables, including from chargers, computers and other devices. Protection extends to messages and third-party messaging apps, blocking images and automatic downloads of attachments in messages suspected of containing malware.
Theft Protection and SmartThings Find
In the fast-paced to-and-fro of patient care, it’s always possible for a mobile device to go missing, whether through honest loss or dishonest theft. Whichever the case, Galaxy A17 5G keeps the data inside off-limits with Theft Protection.
The feature allows for remote locking of A17 5G’s screen and requiring biometric authentication to unlock. In addition, the screen is automatically locked if the device goes offline for an extended period. A theft detection lock uses machine learning to detect motions associated with snatching and instantly locks the screen.
Samsung SmartThings Find takes it a step further. Enrolled devices may be wiped and reset from afar, and their location can be pegged on a map, even when they’re not connected to a network.
App permissions
Establishing and maintaining device and data security means keeping a tight control on what apps are allowed in workflows and what they can do. Samsung mobile devices like Galaxy A17 5G enable this through its permissions manager.
Here, set which apps may be used in a healthcare setting — including HIPAA-compliant ones for messaging, videoconferencing, electronic health records integration and workflows — and the rules and parameters for each. That might include, for example, if a Galaxy Wearable app can access a device’s location, a feature that might prove useful for remote patient monitoring.
Healthcare data security as a foundation for patient-centered care
Knowing healthcare endpoint security is firmly in place means clinicians can do what they do best. A mobile device like Galaxy A17 5G means they can do it more securely than ever before. Whether assisting in rapid triage, patient intake or colleague consultations, the right mobile platform strikes that balance between high quality care and data security.
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