Even after North America’s biggest health IT convention of the year, the industry news still does not take a break!  As the heated Discussion over CNN’s movie on fixing healthcare rages on, and while Eric Topol saves yet another life

As a practicing emergency physician, I’ve seen firsthand how technology impacts patient care. Good technology can speed up care and allow doctors and nurses to focus on what matters most: the patient. But all too often, we encounter barriers when accessing our digital systems. In the name of preserving privacy and security, we’re forced to deal with lengthy login processes that have multiple, complex, everlasting passwords, with applications that are not only prone to timing out, but also take too long to boot up and allow access.

For years, Imprivata has worked with – and learned from – our virtualization partners and hospital organizations around the world. And together, over the last five years, we have predicted that healthcare organizations would continue to adopt virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

And we were right.

Digital identity company Imprivata, and Ponemon Institute, today unveiled new research that highlights security, financial, and operational consequences associated with existing enterprise-owned mobile device programs.

The findings, detailed in a new report titled Unlocking the Cost of Chaos: The State of Enterprise Mobility in Life- and Mission-Critical Industries, show the costly reality: Without effective tools or a unified strategy, organizations experience significant challenges when implementing mobile devices.