More companies than ever are looking into means to secure their IT infrastructure. A recent PWC survey noted that two thirds of the 1,409 CEOs the company surveyed see more threats overall today than three years ago. As a result, the world is also seeing an emergence in Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) to help … Continued
We have often written on this blog about problems with pagers, including how pager use causes significant privacy issues for the doctors who use them and the patients whose data is exchanged. We have described how pagers prevent physicians from being able to immediately contacting their colleagues while simultaneously hindering a virtuous workflow. Turns out … Continued
OnPage Corporation today announced that it has become a member of the MSPAlliance. MSPAlliance is the oldest Managed Services group and the only Accrediting and Standards based body created specifically for the Managed Services Industry. With over 30,000 corporate members worldwide, the MSPAlliance is a very powerful and influential global network of IT professionals. MSPAlliance … Continued
Hospital Corporation of America uses OnPage to Increase IT Uptime Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a publicly held, for-profit operator of health care facilities across the United States and the United Kingdom. According to recent filings, HCA employs over 200,000 people and had profits of over $2.89 billion in 2016. A few years ago, however, when … Continued
OnPage Corporation is pleased to announce that Paul Sullivan has joined the company as its new VP of Strategic Alliances with the goal of creating ties with new organizations and creating further alliances with industry associations. Paul comes to OnPage with a wealth of experience and looks forward to growing OnPage. Paul Sullivan joins OnPage … Continued
How healthcare collaboration and communication make a difference Improving healthcare collaboration in the healthcare industry is vital in today’s complex world. The current state of care coordination is marked by operational inefficiencies that inhibit the streamlining of care. Given this reality, doing nothing to change the level of collaboration is perhaps the biggest risk to … Continued
While pagers have been around since 1921, they didn’t hit their groove until the 1960s. At that time, they revolutionized the way physicians and nurses were able to receive and send messages. For the ensuing 30 years pagers continued to remain popular with those in healthcare and only in the 1990s did pager longevity extend … Continued
Professionals in IT, healthcare and managed services look to OnPage to enable them to exchange critical messages in a safe and secure manner. These same professionals also expect that in the heat of an incident, they will be able to exchange messages immediately with colleagues and know if their colleagues are logged in and available … Continued
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s largest provincewide health system responsible for delivering health services to Alberta’s citizens and maintaining the health of the system’s over 108,000 employees. Occupational health is a significant issue for such a large workforce population, specifically when confronted with blood body fluid exposures (BBFE). AHS’s Workplace Health and Safety group … Continued
Why DR for HIPAA Compliance Cannot be an Afterthought In March 2016, a cyberattack was launched on MedStar Health, a healthcare chain in the DC area. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) actually investigated the incident. With the IT system inaccessible, MedStar Health simply decided to temporarily halt any admissions of patients to 250 outpatient … Continued