At OnPage, we communicate and interact with legal practices, understanding how their needs are changing, while helping them transform their operations. Through these conversations, we learned that an increasing number of practices look to transition to 24×7 after-hour communications, allowing potential and existing clients to reach legal practitioners (i.e., lawyers) at any time. With 24×7 … Continued
Unexpected events make the healthcare profession one of the most challenging industries to navigate and plan for. Sudden, abrupt patient situations tend to occur, increasing the workload of healthcare providers. Similarly, process efficiencies and productivity such as alert escalations are a reflection of the care team’s ability to communicate. When teams are on the same … Continued
Have you heard about OnPage’s new and exciting integration with Amion? Through this collaboration, healthcare organizations can improve clinical communications, resulting in better patient care. It’s a sure way to enhance the patient experience, ensuring that qualified, on-call physicians respond more effectively to urgent clinical matters (i.e., patient needs). So, how exactly does the integration … Continued
Whether you’re a seasoned IT veteran or an up-and-coming rookie in the field, it’s key that IT teams understand how to develop the most effective processes and plans for on-call schedules and rotations. Let’s take a look at some best practices that IT pros can use to become all-stars on their on-call teams. Ensuring That … 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
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
On-call management’s long tail At its best, on-call management in healthcare can be labeled as inefficient. Yet, on-call has a long tail. Poor communication starts with poor on-call hygiene which hinders subsequent communications. Physicians, nurses and other caregivers do not spend enough time communicating about the patient’s needs because they have difficulty reaching other clinicians and … Continued
Can You Guess the Average Cost of IT Downtime? $50,00 per incident $100,000 per incident $250,000 per incident $500,000 per incident MORE THAN $500,000 per incident Here’s How to Increase Responsiveness and Decrease IT Downtime for Healht Care and for IT. The answer is #5 – the average outage incident in a health care environment costs … Continued
A recent study done by Ponemon Institute & Emerson Network Power shows that healthcare organizations face an average cost of $690,000 per outage incident. This comes as a 41 percent increase since 2010. The study also shows that larger groups with more extensive IT systems could pay our nearly as much as $1.74 million per … Continued
