The safety of patients’ personal information is typically prioritized in a healthcare context. Therefore, the choice of tools for collecting, keeping, and transferring patient data must be restricted to the ones provided by the organization. For this reason, it seems that the policy of BYOD, or bring your own device, is entirely misaligned with the core ethical premises of managing patient data in healthcare environment. Since healthcare experts’ personal devices are not controlled by the hospital, the information that they contain may be easily transferred got a third party, thus, violating patients’ data safety standards.
In regard to the management of the described issue, it will be reasonable to suggest that banning the use of personal devices as the means of collecting and recording patient data, as well as the further transfer thereof to other team members, is unlikely to yield particularly notable results. Specifically, staff members are unlikely to abandon the specified practice completely; instead, they may resort to using personal data management tools surreptitiously. Therefore, one could suggest that a change in the leadership approach and the related management practices should be introduced into the target setting. Specifically, staff members must be introduced to core ethical principles and standards with which they must align their performance. Additionally, healthcare experts must be offered devices that will allow them manage data more effectively than the current information management devices allow. As a result, even though the substitutes may not be as effective as staff members’ personal devices, they will still eb actively used. Specifically, with core ethical standards endorsed actively and the opportunities for improved data management provided, employees are expected to eb motivated to align with the company’s data security policies.