Shared clinical devices and clinicians' own phones, held to the same standard
A hospital or trust runs ward iPads shared by every shift, clinical laptops that hold patient data, workstations in corridors and clinicians' own phones with work email on them. Purple MDM encrypts and proves the lot, resets shared devices between users and treats a clinician's phone as personal.
What you are up against
Patient data on devices that move
Shared devices on every ward
An iPad left signed in by the last nurse, or a workstation in a corridor, is patient data within reach of anyone passing.Clinicians' own phones
Work email and messaging on personal phones that nobody will enrol if it feels like surveillance.Proving it
Information governance wants evidence that every laptop with patient data is encrypted, and a list, not a promise.
How Purple MDM is set up
How Purple MDM is set up for a healthcare provider
- Shared devices that resetWard iPads reset between users with Return to Service, carry a device policy and the ward's apps, and nothing else.
- Encryption you can listFileVault and BitLocker on by policy with keys escrowed, and a compliance report over time per device for information governance.
- Clinicians' phones as personalA work area for email and messaging, a transparency page saying what the trust can and cannot see, and a retire button that is the clinician's.
- Device health on the clinical networkWith Purple Access, a laptop that fails a check is moved to a safe network until fixed, and let back automatically.
See everything Purple MDM doesHealthcare WiFi on Purple Access
The fleet
The clinical fleet
- Ward iPadsSupervised, shared with Return to Service, apps without Apple IDs.
- Clinical laptopsEncryption with key escrow, company sign-in, patching with deadlines.
- Corridor workstationsWindows PCs with BitLocker, LAPS and screen lock, update windows out of hours.
- Clinicians' phonesA work area and a transparency page.
- Community and home-visit devicesLost mode with location, lock and wipe from the console.
- Information governanceRead-only access, reports over time and the audit log.
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Can we prove every laptop with patient data is encrypted?
Yes. The compliance report over time lists encryption status per device, and the audit log records every recovery key view.
What can the trust see on a clinician's own phone?
Only the work area. The transparency page lists what the trust can and cannot see, and a wipe removes the work area and nothing else.
Do ward iPads need to be signed out between users?
Return to Service resets a shared iPad between users, keeping its apps and settings, so the next clinician starts clean.
Does Purple MDM manage medical devices?
Purple MDM manages Macs, iPhones, iPads, Windows PCs, Android devices, Chromebooks and Linux machines. Medical and building devices join the network on their own keys through Purple Access.
Other industries
Care homes
Care planning tablets, residents' iPads and the office PC in every home, fixed from head office.Dental and GP practices
Reception PCs, surgery workstations and the check-in iPad in every practice, run centrally.Local government
Social care laptops, field tablets, library PCs and civic centre desks, one console, data in your region.
See every device in one console, on your own fleet
Tell us which devices you run, how many, and what you manage them with today. The Purple team shows you Purple MDM on a fleet like yours: zero-touch enrolment, a change previewed and undone, a failed check explained in a sentence, and a device moved off the network and back. Already a Purple customer? Sign in to the app with your Purple account.
- We map your fleetA Purple expert maps your platforms, your groups and how devices arrive today, and answers your questions on enrolment, data regions, roles and migration.
- You see it on devices like yoursA demo of zero-touch enrolment, a previewed change, a failed check explained in plain English and, with Purple Access, a device moved off the network and back.
- You get your quotePriced per device, per month, for the platforms you run, direct or through your Purple partner, with a move in waves planned if you are coming from another MDM.
Your demo
Tell us your fleet. We show you Purple MDM running it.
A Purple expert comes back to book a demo on devices like yours, from the team behind Purple WiFi and Purple Access.