Pagers offer a direct and fast alert system, cutting through the noise of smartphone notifications and ensuring critical ...

Hospital pagers are one of those things. They might not look like much, but they play a big part in keeping things running smoothly when it really matters. Let’s talk about why these devices are still ...

In the world of smartphones and tablets, pagers may seem dated, even archaic, but they are still a staple tool in healthcare. Forgoing more recent technologies may seem like a cost saving measure, but ...

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 ...

Standard pagers remain a reliable, cost effective, and convenient way for communicating non-sensitive short messages, such as code alerts (without PHI), transport requests, and environmental ...

Dr. Christopher Peabody, an emergency physician at San Francisco General Hospital, uses pagers every day — albeit grudgingly. Peabody said he and others at the hospital tested a new system and "the ...

FILE - Three women hold the pager 'Quix' as they present it at CeBIT '97 in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday March 18, 1997. The beep-beep-beep of a small black box on your belt or in your pocket was ...

GILLETTE - Usually you get them waiting for a table at a restaurant. Now they're being handed out at Campbell County Memorial Hospital when patients and their relatives are told they have to wait. The ...

Pagers, devices that are used every day as a crucial form of communication for health care professionals, became a deadly weapon Tuesday as thousands of them simultaneously exploded in Lebanon, ...