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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the pager was a pretty revolutionary device for its time, there are very few industries that still make use of this ...

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 ...