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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What I like most is the usability of InformaCast. It has a simple user interface and works without complications.

— Kris Saylor, Director of Technology, Necedah Area School District —

The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.

— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —

[InformaCast] is one of our most critical services. Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools.

— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services, Redlands Unified School District —

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.

— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —

InformaCast played a key role in notifying our campus about the water main break and the need to use bottled water. I was able to quickly record a message and send it to the campus from my office at home. Our students commented how effective this was in letting them know what was going on.

— John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems, Brandeis University —