Sean Kelly is Chief Medical Officer and head of healthcare strategy at Imprivata – the digital identity company providing simple and secure access for the healthcare industry.

Imprivata enables organisations in over 45 countries to fully manage and secure all enterprise and third-party digital identities by establishing trust between people, technology and information.

Mobile healthcare tools don’t replace traditional devices like workstations on wheels, but rather complement them by increasing flexibility and clinician satisfaction.

While many in healthcare believe shared mobile tools will be beneficial, the sector is still in the process of fully understanding just how transformative they may be. From a clinician’s perspective, mobile devices already improve the ability to deliver care more effectively, but the full extent of their influence is still being evaluated.

In our latest webinar; “Putting the brakes on shared mobile challenges”, myself and a panel from Imprivata discuss the hot topics around the challenges to mobile adoption including, workflow considerations, security of shared devices and how to achieve successful staff engagement with new technologies. In short, how clinicians can thrive with share mobile devices.

I’m joined by Brad Gwyther, Customer Success Manager and Andy Wilcox, Senior Product Manager to discuss how healthcare organisations can successfully deploy mobile devices for care delivery.

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on 12 May, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. This year, Imprivata UK marked the day at Queens Hospital Burton, part of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, a long time user of Imprivata technology.

A perfect opportunity for us to say ‘thank you’ and show our appreciation for the hard work of nurses, we joined the pop-up event at Queens Hospital. We came armed with goodies including mobile phone power banks and ‘moptop’ pens, which are so popular they are fast becoming collectors’ items.

Andy E, former Director of Connected Nottinghamshire, the first chief cyber security officer (CCSO) for a system STP and, most recently, the first CCSO for an ICS at Birmingham and Solihull, argues that without facing up to the reality of the risks inherent in the legacy systems used in the NHS, we cannot hope to protect ourselves from attacks and build resilience into our processes. The situation may be critical but there are tangible actions we can take today to start to address vulnerabilities head on.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT has gone live with a clinical desktop using the combination of Citrix and IGEL, with an Imprivata layer to provide single sign on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). The combined solution, called ‘Follow Me Desktop’, has been rolled out across both the Trust’s hospitals and its maternity unit, covering 45 inpatient wards and 22 operating theatres.

We recently spoke with Andrew Harrison, principal product manager, international, at Imprivata about the future of EPRs. Andrew shared some key examples of best practices and gave his own insights into secure access for clinicians.

Balancing security and usability in EPR adoption