Medical Economics October 4, 2021
Smartphones and tablets are on the rise, while pagers fall out of fashion.
As physicians rely even more on smartphones for patient communications, questions remain about privacy on the devices.
According to a survey from communication company Spok, 79 percent of healthcare organizations utilize smartphones for communications 53 percent utilize tablets, and 65 percent utilize wi-fi phones. Meanwhile only 49 percent use in-house or on-site pagers, 35 percent use wide-area pagers, and 21 percent use encrypted pagers.
In 2021, 76 percent of responding organizations say they are some level of concerned about the transfer of patient information and proprietary health system data is being communicated over unsecure or personal communication tools while only 13 percent are not concerned. The year...
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