Bayshore Home Health, Canada's largest provider of home and community health care services, is installing WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption software on all laptops and tablets used by the company, including those utilized by clinical managers and nurses.
“SecureDoc installs in the background which means Bayshore's IT department can set up the laptops while they are working on other projects”
"Clinical managers are critical to the patient care process as they are the first to arrive at a patient's home," says Daniel Gallagher, Manager, Infrastructure & Support for Bayshore Home Health. "Clinical managers assess the services patients require and we knew that providing them with technology at the point-of-care would improve efficiency and expedite patient care. We also knew that before we could only allow them to utilize tablets laptops in the field we had to be absolutely certain all data is secure. We looked at other encryption technologies, but none could meet all our criteria. Only WinMagic seamlessly integrated with our laptops and tablets to provide the combination of ease of use, ease of management, high-level security and local support we required."
Bayshore's clinical managers' laptops will have WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption installed when employees receive them. They will also be issued a cellular AirCard which, when combined with mobile VPN software, will provide simple, anytime, anywhere secure VPN tunnel access to central information resources. The ability to enter and access data immediately will enhance productivity by eliminating the need for field staff to return to branch offices - significantly expediting the delivery of patient care.
"SecureDoc installs in the background which means Bayshore's IT department can set up the laptops while they are working on other projects," explains Gallagher. "As the full-disk encryption software does not impact laptop performance users are not inconvenienced in any way. This is vitally important as the whole point of this project is to improve efficiency and patient care. It makes sense to treat patients at home because not only do people feel more comfortable in familiar surroundings, but it also saves on expensive hospital care."