How Valley View Hospital Learns From Disasters
Alert Media
AUGUST 19, 2021
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Healthcare and Crisis Teams Harness PagerDuty to Stay Ready and Resilient by Nisha Kadaba
PagerDuty
MAY 20, 2025
With this grant, accesSOS will serve the growing demand, expanding to more communities affected by climate-related disasters and public safety threats, while also strengthening the back-end infrastructure for real-time responsiveness, improving system uptime, and alerting in high-traffic emergency periods.
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Your Boutique Hotel Brand Deserves Better Tech
NexusTek
MAY 30, 2025
Your Boutique Hotel Brand Deserves Better Tech May 30, 2025 Jason Pullo Founder, ESP, a NexusTek company In boutique hospitality, design used to be the differentiatora beautiful lobby, a curated playlist, a drink that felt like a discovery. EHL Insights, Key Hospitality Technology Trends to Watch in 2025 , December 2024.
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SIA New Member Profile: Zeptive
Security Industry Association
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Unfortunately, the vaping issue has since expanded beyond schools, affecting workplaces and hospitality sectors as well. The addition of cellular connectivity provides workplaces, schools and hospitality customers with the most efficient way to implement safety sensing.
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Prepare for the Impact of Tropical Storm Nicole
everbridge
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
This means collaborating with outside jurisdictions, hospitals, non-profits, and private businesses within the area. Employees should be trained and educated on how to receive and respond to severe weather alerts to keep themselves safe and operations protected.
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SIA New Member Profile: Xtract One
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Seeing our systems protect people at stadiums, hospitals and schools without disrupting the enjoyment of their day makes the effort worthwhile. These venues include arenas, stadiums, schools, hospitals, manufacturing and distribution centers and other facilities. Visitors walk through as is.
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How to Optimize Emergency Communication in Hospitals
Alert Media
JANUARY 10, 2023
The post How to Optimize Emergency Communication in Hospitals appeared first on AlertMedia.
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Integrating Technologies, Security and Privacy: Hospital Security Systems Must Do More Than Lock Doors and Record Video
Security Industry Association
APRIL 7, 2022
Hospitals around the globe face the challenge of meeting the needs of a wide variety of people, from protecting patients (and their confidential information) to ensuring the well-being of staff and physicians to providing a safe environment for visitors. Numerous sectors of a hospital have complex needs for role-based access control.
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Inclement weather response demands attention
everbridge
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
For example, in Maui and the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, California alerts were delayed, use of sirens withheld, and evacuation procedures rendered ineffective. Emergency alert systems, including Wireless Emergency Alerts and NOAA Weather Radio, serve as direct lifelines to the public.
Strengthening security resilience: A proactive approach to evolving threats
everbridge
MARCH 7, 2025
Leveraging mass notification systems to alert employees and stakeholders in real time. Healthcare industry: Strengthening crisis preparedness A hospital network improved its emergency response capabilities by integrating cyber and physical security teams. Summary Security is never set-and-forget.
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Better Data for Public Health: How Nexleaf and PagerDuty are Monitoring Healthcare by Rachel Schmitz
PagerDuty
JUNE 29, 2022
In rural Sub-Saharan Africa, however, it’s estimated that only about 28% of hospitals have reliable electricity. Having an unreliable power source causes a myriad of problems for rural hospitals. Without data showing exactly how long and costly these outages are, it’s difficult for these hospitals to justify additional funds. “O
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8.5 Million Crashes Later: Why CrowdStrike’s Blunder Is Your Risk Management Wake-Up Call
LogisManager
JULY 30, 2024
Planes were grounded, banks were frozen, and hospitals were in chaos. Spoiler alert: it didn’t pay off. CrowdStrike , an American cybersecurity company, pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor software, causing approximately 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems to crash. Yep, you read that right—8.5 The price tag?
Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane
everbridge
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. They are responsible for ensuring public safety, emergency response, and timely community awareness.
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AI in Security and Psychology
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Another possible use of AI is for inventory management, so that, for example, alerts are automatically triggered or orders placed when the stock of items reaches certain levels. Within the security industry, high-value items need to be tracked to ensure that they make it to the correct job site without being stolen or misplaced.
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Changes Continue in Cyber Insurance
Pure Storage
MARCH 6, 2024
LockBit has been responsible for headline-garnering attacks on hospitals, schools, and financial institutions, propelling the U.S. Once a policy is issued, they continue to scan and send alerts to control their own and their customers’ risks.
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The Cost of Increasing Incidents: How COVID-19 Affected MTTR, MTTA, and More by Hannah Culver
PagerDuty
OCTOBER 6, 2021
For instance, the highest lift in critical incident volume was seen in the Travel & Hospitality and Telecom industries, with 20% more critical incidents. MTTA is the time it takes for a responder to acknowledge the alert. As they create more efficient on-call and alerting rules, their MTTA improves.
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Deploy Your Emergency Notification Software Across the Entire Organization
Alert Media
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
For example, Heart Hospital of Austin partnered with AlertMedia to deploy emergency notifications, but soon realized they could also automate day-to-day scheduling and fill shifts. Managers use the survey functionality to correspond with technicians, set goals to modify audience interaction, and finalize job assignments via real-time polling.
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Solving Business Challenges With Computer Vision: Artificial Intelligence Technologies Will Soon Be Transformative
Security Industry Association
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Video surveillance is a mainstay in many industries, from retail to health care to hospitality to corporate offices. Or store security alerted to a theft as it is occurring. A potentially dangerous event involving obstructions or hazards in the loading dock, or a forklift being driven too fast or recklessly, could trigger an alert.
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IntelligentSIA: New Research & Analysis, Courses, Scholarships, Events and More With SIA This Month
Security Industry Association
AUGUST 5, 2022
New course alert! From global enterprises to the most renowned hospitals, cloud access control is quickly becoming more popular, replacing its on-premises predecessors. Learn more and register here. Starting Aug. 9, join us virtually for the next SIAcademy LIVE! A transformation is happening.
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Polar Vortex
Disaster Recovery
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Many had to be hospitalized due to exposure to carbon monoxide. More Patients at Hospitals and Medical Centers. Local hospitals saw a more than normal level activity with many admissions. Weather experts alerted locals in and around the New York region of falling temperatures, although not as severe as in the Midwest.
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Stop Ransomware In Fort Lauderdale, Florida
LAN Infotech
MARCH 17, 2022
Frequently updated information includes the latest ransomware-related alerts and updates from all participating agencies and clear guidance on how to report attacks. The Stop Ransomware website consolidates resources from all federal government agencies, providing a wide range of ransomware guidance.
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Healthcare Organizations Leverage PagerDuty Platform and Pro Bono Technical Support to Advance Global Vaccine Equity by Nisha Kadaba
PagerDuty
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Drawing on insights gained, the technical teams then designed targeted solutions to reduce alert noise, integrate new monitoring and automation tools, and improve the team’s work-life balance. CareMessage , a U.S. million messages regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. . – Ronaldo Raivil, Senior Software Engineer, CareMessage.
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Transforming Healthcare in Rural India with Telemedicine by Nisha Kadaba
PagerDuty
MAY 14, 2024
“Accessing healthcare can be a challenge for older individuals, especially if you are part of a low-income household that lives in a village 30 kilometers away from the closest district hospital.
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Managecast
MARCH 27, 2020
This means file noticed with the government, alerting affected people, and sending out breach notifications.” According to Wired, “BleepingComputer reached out to the operators of multiple strains of ransomware, asking if they had plans to stop hitting hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.
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10 Times Agile Data Delivered Breakthroughs
Pure Storage
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Data and insights can help hospitals and other healthcare institutions better identify inefficiencies and performance issues, resulting in faster health care analysis for customers. From predicting estimated transit times to alerting drivers to changing traffic conditions, ride-sharing apps use data-driven insights to power their services.
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Practicing Emergency Preparedness
Alert Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
PGG and Good Shepherd Hospital remind us that it’s not enough to simply have an emergency response plan, but that practicing that plan is the best way to ensure that it will be well-executed in case of an actual emergency.
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5 Areas Where the Use of AI and Modern Storage Solutions Are Advancing Healthcare
Pure Storage
APRIL 7, 2025
According to Boston Consulting Group, healthcare providers that prioritize personalization in patient interactions have seen significant improvements in customer satisfaction as well as reductions in the length of hospital stays and 30-day readmission rates. billion by 2033.
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5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Reciprocity
AUGUST 18, 2022
Key risk indicators (KRIs) can alert managers when those risks approach unacceptable levels. Controls and KRIs serve as an early-warning system to alert managers that something in the risk management program needs attention.
5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Reciprocity
MARCH 28, 2022
That means you must implement controls to keep risks in check, and key risk indicators (KRIs) to alert managers when those risks are rising to unacceptable levels. Regardless, controls and KRIs serve as an early-warning system to alert managers that something in the risk management program needs attention.
What Is a Data Platform? [Guide]
Pure Storage
JULY 3, 2024
Airbnb, for example, uses its data platform to analyze traveler preferences, booking patterns, and property listings to optimize search rankings, pricing recommendations, and user experiences, enabling the company to disrupt the hospitality industry and become a market leader in the sharing economy.
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Choosing a Governance Risk and Compliance Tool: Constant Vigilance
Reciprocity
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Then, link SLAs to vendors and contracts and send reminders or alerts when you identify issues that affect vendor performance. Centralized Service Level Agreements (SLA) Management. With a GRC tool, you can create and manage all SLA metrics and minimum thresholds from one central location. Automated Incident Management.
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Five Organizations Tackling Health Inequity: Meet PagerDuty.org’s Second Impact Accelerator Cohort by Olivia Khalili
PagerDuty
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.
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6 Ways Healthcare AI Is Saving Lives
Pure Storage
APRIL 4, 2022
There are countless applications of AI in the back offices of hospitals and other healthcare organizations, where machine learning helps identify workflow efficiencies and cost-saving measures. AI applications are really good at monitoring health conditions and alerting caregivers and patients to potentially dangerous changes.
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Five Organizations Tackling Health Inequity: Meet PagerDuty.org’s Second Impact Accelerator Cohort by Olivia Khalili
PagerDuty
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.
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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 12, 2022
On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm. The University Hospital Düsseldorf, whose A&E department was closed, had suffered a cyber-attack. This led to the treatment of the lady being delayed by an hour.
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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 12, 2022
On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm. The University Hospital Düsseldorf, whose A&E department was closed, had suffered a cyber-attack. This led to the treatment of the lady being delayed by an hour.
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Mitigating the Impact of Severe Weather
everbridge
MAY 13, 2022
This means collaborating with other jurisdictions, hospitals, non-profits, and private businesses in the area. Employee education: Employees should be trained and educated on how to receive and respond to severe weather alerts to keep themselves safe and operations protected. Severe Weather Planning Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them.
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6 Reasons Why Managed IT is Critical for Healthcare
NexusTek
APRIL 21, 2021
An MSP also offers customized alerting and applies a complete incident response strategy to contain and eradicate breaches. A high patient satisfaction score on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey also impacts how much a healthcare organization receives from Medicare.
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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 12, 2022
On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm. The University Hospital Düsseldorf, whose A&E department was closed, had suffered a cyber-attack. This led to the treatment of the lady being delayed by an hour.
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Lone Workers vs. Remote Workers: Knowing the Difference and Keeping Both Safe
everbridge
AUGUST 11, 2021
If injured on the job, it’s important to have plans to keep them safe amidst the already strained emergency services and hospitals. Workers can simply press it to alert their employer and trigger a response, all while avoiding detection by those around them. And remote workers have seen even more change during the crisis.
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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure
Pure Storage
APRIL 26, 2022
From ransomware attacks on school systems and hospitals to threats on critical infrastructure, state and local IT leaders are under immense pressure to build strong cyber defenses against bad actors,” says Mike Wiseman , vice president of public sector at Pure Storage. Cybersecurity Protections for Data.
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S’mores and Signals: Why Today’s Camping Experiences Demand Rock-Solid IT
NexusTek
MAY 16, 2025
Modern outdoor hospitality isnt just about breathtaking views. That means everything from 24/7 video feeds to weather alerts and emergency notifications need to workno glitches allowed. As a trusted hospitality IT services provider, ESP specializes in technology solutions purpose-built for outdoor and destination-focused properties.
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IntelligentSIA: 11 Ways to Close Out the Year With SIA
Security Industry Association
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In this special report, get SIA’s focus group findings on the security technologies that health care leaders value most, what hospital security practitioners are looking for from integrators and key risks. New course alert! A new SIA Practitioner Insights is here! Unlock the report here.
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