We’ve already taken a look at what this year’s HIMSS conference has to offer, but there is even more opportunity to see how emergency communication technologies will play an important role in healthcare.
In the demonstration, Cisco illustrates how connected systems make it easy for front desk personnel to assess situations and ask for assistance if they feel there is an issue.
It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.
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— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —
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… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.
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— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —
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[InformaCast] is one of our most critical services. Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools.
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— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services, Redlands Unified School District —
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I like using it, because it’s a simple product to use. You can see behind it that it is a quality product; professionally-built and well-designed.
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— Terry Oakley, Telecommunications Coordinator, Red Deer College —
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The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.
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— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —
