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 ...

For most of us, pagers went out when cell phones came in, but some companies are still using them and when the messages sent without encryption, attackers can listen in and even interfere with the ...

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 ...

Pagers on display at a meeting room in the Gold Apollo company in New Taipei City (Reuters) -As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the ...

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 ...

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, ...