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November 25, 2024
Difficulty reaching physicians and other on-call clinicians can delay patient treatment and negatively impact satisfaction. Discover the six things you should know when evaluating and purchasing advanced physician on-call scheduling software.
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November 7, 2024
Spok outlines the four interoperability levels that are necessary for eliminating communication gaps and improving patient outcomes.
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October 28, 2024
How did the best hospitals become great? Vince Kelly, Spok president and CEO, outlines five common characteristics of the organizations ranked on the 2024-25 Best Hospitals Honor Rolls.
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October 24, 2024
Spok offers insights and key findings from our 2023 State of Healthcare Communications report.
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October 2, 2024
Interoperability is an industry buzzword, but it’s often conflated with integration. Learn the difference between the two terms and why interoperability is key to the future of healthcare.
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September 18, 2024
We recommend the best practices for achieving interoperability in healthcare so your hospital can alleviate communication challenges and streamline the flow of clinical information.
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September 12, 2024
HL7 standards are important to healthcare interoperability goals and EHR optimization. Read this post to learn more about HL7 standards, including APIs and FHIR.
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August 15, 2024
Burns talks about his fifty-year career and memorable experiences with Spok and its predecessor companies in this employee interview.
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August 8, 2024
Is your organization considering starting its journey with AI? Do so with confidence by learning more about the different types of AI applications used in healthcare and the steps you should take to ready your teams and organization for AI’s continued evolution.
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July 25, 2024
In this employee interview, Clark discusses her professional history and memorable experiences with Spok as a leading member of the Sales team.
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July 11, 2024
In this post, learn how a pager works, what a paging network is, how modern paging differs from the paging you might remember, and how a hospital or clinical setting can best leverage the capabilities of modern paging.
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June 27, 2024
How does communication technology enhance clinical communication and care team collaboration? To give you some tangible examples, our mobility solutions expert examines three clinical workflows to show how communication technology fills the gaps created by the EHR by connecting care teams and systems to deliver information quickly and securely into the hands of those who need to act on it.