HIPAA highlight: Bring your own device
Physicians Practice June 20, 2024
Allowing employees to use their own devices at work could raise privacy concerns.
Mobile devices are integral to life – both personally and professionally. While some companies issue devices specifically for company business or deploy software that bifurcates personal and business phone numbers on one device, others permit workforce members to bring your own device (“BYOD”). Regardless of the choices just mentioned, there are still cybersecurity and legal considerations, which range from inadequate technical, physical, and administrative safeguards to discovery issues, legal hold issues, and regulatory issues, which include but are not limited to the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), as well as the related laws and regulations, and other industry requirements such as the Financial...