Standard or encrypted pagers: What’s the difference and which is best for my hospital?

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 notifications to name a few. As the largest paging provider in the U.S., we want to remind the industry that standard pagers should not be used to send PHI under any circumstances. 

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 Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Spok’s website.

For clinicians who need to coordinate care and are routinely sending PHI, secure messaging solutions like Spok Mobile or encrypted pagers protect that sensitive information.

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