Aspirus Simplifies Operating Room Paging with Notification System

Aspirus Healthcare serves 60,000 people in central Wisconsin and northern Michigan through eight hospitals and more than 40 clinics.

Business Challenge:

Aspirus Healthcare was renovating its operating rooms and did not have a plan for incorporating its intercoms for overhead paging. It was also facing obstacles from its legacy paging system, which needed to be replaced. The facility needed a simple notification system for communicating with medical staff while not sharing sensitive pages with patient families.

Solution:

Aspirus turned to its existing Cisco phones to enable InformaCast notification and alert software for pre-recorded paging. This provided a cost-effective means to establish standardized paging procedures throughout the hospital that could be activated with the push of a button and designated zones so certain pages are only heard in specific areas.

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