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The Telecom Digest for April 12, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 53 : "text" Format
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Nurses Say Pagers Must Go; Hospitals Drag Feet (Bill Horne)
Flight 370 Search Brings Satellite Company an Unaccustomed Bit of Fame (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:05:07 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Nurses Say Pagers Must Go; Hospitals Drag Feet 
Message-ID: <li3uk6$osv$1@dont-email.me>

Nurses and other healthcare workers who communicate vital patient 
information say they need an alternative to outdated pagers and insecure 
smartphones.

by Alison Diana

At most hospitals, nurses are still required to communicate with 
colleagues and doctors via Voice over IP (VoIP) or pagers. But many 
nurses, who tend to be constantly on the go, are increasingly ignoring 
policy and are texting from their smartphones instead. This approach 
carries risks: Not only are the phones insecure, but they could also 
introduce germs into sterile environments.

Pagers may be less risky, but they aren't efficient. They cost US 
hospitals $8.3 billion in 2013, according to a report by the Ponemon 
Institute: $3.2 billion through time-consuming discharge processes and 
another $5.1 billion while clinicians waited for patient information (an 
average of 46 per minutes per day).

Rest at:

http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-and-wireless/nurses-say-pagers-must-go-hospitals-drag-feet-/d/d-id/1204255

-or-

http://goo.gl/p8rnr8

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)

This line of life is quick and keen
The time arrives, the knife is clean
          - David Mallett




Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:39:37 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Flight 370 Search Brings Satellite Company an Unaccustomed Bit of  Fame
Message-ID: <p0624080acf6cf7505f0b@[10.0.1.6]>

Flight 370 Search Brings Satellite Company an Unaccustomed Bit of Fame
By NICOLA CLAR
KAPRIL 9, 2014

LONDON - On an enormous electronic map of the globe in the modernist 
headquarters of a satellite company here, two green hexagons the size 
of dinner plates hovered off the west coast of Australia, revealing 
signals from an armada of ships and planes converged in the hunt for 
any remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The searchers were there in large part because the company, Inmarsat, 
had produced an innovative analysis of a series of fleeting radio 
signals from the plane - picked up by one of its satellites in the 
hours after the jet, carrying 239 people, disappeared from radar 
screens March 8.

Investigators say Inmarsat's findings were critical to establishing 
that the Boeing 777-200 almost certainly crashed into the southern 
Indian Ocean. And more than a month since the flight took off, they 
remain among the few clues that investigators have as they try to 
piece together what happened.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/business/international/flight-search-brings-satellite-company-unaccustomed-fame.html






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