Despite healthcare’s smartphone-enabled digital transformation, many physicians still prefer using good old-fashioned beepers, The Wall Street Journal reported May 19. “They’re like the cockroaches of ...

Many have decried the use of pager in healthcare. Yet 60% of hospitals support in-house pagers, 45% support wide-area pagers, and 22% support encrypted pagers. Find out why they’re not going anywhere ...

For more than half a century, doctors have stubbornly stuck by their pagers, even as other workers, from delivery drivers to nuclear-plant engineers, have given them up for more up-to-date ...

Popular medical blogger Dr. Kevin Pho, also known as KevinMD, has a noteworthy post on the growing popularity of smartphone use in hospitals and smartphones' "inevitable" displacement of pagers. A ...

U.S. hospitals are wasting billions of dollars each year by having their staff use archaic communication technology like pagers. Physicians and nurses working in hospitals waste an average of 46 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, announced that Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital ...

> Minneapolis-based mHealth developer Preventice has announced that it has enhanced the ability of the company's BodyGuardian remote monitoring system to identify anomalous ECG rhythms and will now ...

Remember pagers? Simple devices that were used fairly widely before the advent of mobile phones and SMS messaging. If you had a pager, you could receive simple messages, but you couldn’t reply. One of ...

An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time medical data and health information broadcast by hospitals and ambulances across U.K.

After two days of exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, Beirut was a city on edge, with people worried there were bombs in their bags or pockets. Victims’ relatives vowed retribution. By Hwaida Saad ...

IU Health is transitioning from pagers to a system that allows doctors to send patients’ medical records back and forth on their smartphones. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) For more than half a century, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - For more than half a century, doctors have stubbornly stuck by their pagers, even as other workers, from delivery drivers to nuclear-plant engineers, have given them up for more up ...