Here’s what you should ask your IT Alerting Vendor Many IT teams start out with a focus on building out monitoring through Nagios, Splunk, BigPanda or one of many other monitoring tools. However, they soon realize that the key to fighting expensive downtime doesn’t start and end with good monitoring. Teams also need a strong … Continued
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What is a HIPAA compliant texting app? A HIPAA-compliant texting app is an application that physicians, nurses and hospital employees use to exchange the personal health information (PHI) of patients who are being treated by the facility or clinic. A HIPAA compliant texting app must be employed when healthcare employees send messages that contain identifying patient … Continued
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OnPage provides university secure messaging What do UVA, Yale, Ohio State, Tufts and Georgia State have in common? In addition to being some of the finest institutions in the country, these universities are also just a few of the many academic institutions that use OnPage for their university secure messaging and critical alerting needs. Many of … Continued
read moreMobile devices offer clinicians the opportunity to easily engage with patients, coordinate care and ultimately save money, time and improve the quality of healthcare services. At the same time, as mobile devices are increasingly used by healthcare workers (80% use by doctors and 70% use by nurses), they are also becoming an increasing vector for cybersecurity … Continued
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When a critical outage occurs, DevOps teams automatically know to contact the relevant programmers or ITOps or SecOps teams for help in resolving the problem and managing the incident. But what about everybody else? Don’t they matter, too? What about the marketing and sales and executive teams? Don’t they deserve to know? The goal of … Continued
read moreCyberattacks aren’t slowing down anytime soon…and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are often the easiest targets. Hackers know that they don’t have the same budgets and infrastructure as enterprises, but they still store valuable customer data, financial information, and intellectual property. So, this is the perfect place for managed service providers (MSPs) to add value. … Continued
read moreSmartphones are essential to effective and secure messaging for nurses in a hospital setting. While both doctors and nurses typically have access to a smartphone, doctors and nurses differ significantly in their use of the device. In part, this is because nurses have long been seen as an under-appreciated market for mobile health technology and one … Continued
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Crises communications for the cybersecurity age Preparing for a cyberattack has unfortunately become the sort of eventuality every CISO and IT need to recognize. While it is not something anyone wants to do, it is becoming necessary because it is no longer “if” your system will suffer an attack, but “when.” But imagine if IT … Continued
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Since 2008, the data gathered from Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) has enabled hospital facilities to have a standard set of measures for reporting the overall level of patient satisfaction. The importance of tracking and understanding patient satisfaction should not be minimized as it is highly correlated with desired outcomes such … Continued
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Almost half of all technology professionals experience on-call as an integral part of their job. The typical IT on-call schedule often spells a 2 am wake up call that ends in a false alarms or for an issue the engineer can do little about. The results of these sorts of sleep interruptions and tensions inevitably lead … Continued
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