The 21st century solution to antiquated pagers We know that doctors have a love affair with their pagers but healthcare communication is seeing a shift away from pagers to smart phone based communication. OnPage is the fastest provider of critical messaging and alerting services via smartphone and is quickly being adopted by healthcare institutions who … Continued
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Pitch the pager or face the consequences While smartphones have become the manner of communication for most professionals, pagers are still used in many professions as the standard mode of communication. This choice for pagers comes with significant consequences and indeed many suggest the need for finding pager alternatives in healthcare. For example, pagers are not … Continued
read moreTelus announced that it is canceling its pager service across Canada, effective March 31, 2015. This is cause for worry amongst some residents of Quebec’s rural communities according to CBC News. Several anglophone coastline villages near Labrador, on Quebec’s Lower North Shore, do not have cellphone service. They rely on pagers to reach health-care workers … Continued
read moreNurses: The First Practitioners of mHealth Legions of caring nurses were probably the first practitioners of mobile health (mHealth), starting in the last century — the pre-smartphone era. Nurses often carried “beepers” or what is now considered antiquated pagers. Ways Mobile Technology Can Enhance Nurse Communications Today, there are many ways mobile technology can enhance … Continued
read moreOnPage secure priority messaging system is celebrating its 3rd birthday this July. In 2013, OnPage grew its user base 100% over the previous year, and we are forecasting another 100% growth in 2014. Today, over a 1000 customers from industries including health care, energy, finance, government, hi-tech, and utilities are using OnPage for accurate, immediate, and … Continued
read moreDue to the new HIPAA compliance guidelines that came out in September, more organizations rush to get compliant messaging solutions such as secure SMS. However, there are many reasons why secured texting is NOT acceptable for healthcare communication and is NOT a suitable replacement for pagers. 1) Secured Texting does NOT enable messages to be … Continued
read moreThe iPhone App Review site recently reviewed OnPage for its secure, pager replacement application. Reviewed by Philip Chan, OnPage was given an overall rating of 4.5/5 stars! The application was rated on a number of features including, Features, Appearance & Layout and Value. Chan goes on to express ..”For those who frequently use a paging system … Continued
read moreTo Read The Entire Press Release Click Here Onset Technology, creator of the OnPage Pager Replacement and Priority Messaging Application, releases new version with security and efficiency enhancing features such as Remote Wipe, Contact Sync, Message Forwarding and New Ringtones OnPage announced today the release of an enhanced version of the OnPage pager application for … Continued
read moreTo Read The Entire Press Release Click Here A leading Hematology/Oncology practice in Indiana can now communicate faster and more efficiently with OnPage’ secure, HIPAA compliant application. Onset Technology, creator of OnPage Mission Critical Messaging and Pager Application for Android, iPhone and Blackberry, announced today that Michiana Hematology Oncology’s Advanced Centers for Cancer Care selected … Continued
read moreOnPage: For Dependable HIPAA Compliant Communication OnPage announced today that SJH Cardiology Associates selected OnPage for dependable HIPAA compliant communication and encrypted messaging among their MDs and Staff, across a variety of smartphones. OnPage provides SJH with reliable and secure communication that protects patient information, and automatically notifies the sender when the message was delivered … Continued
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