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American Messaging
American Messaging14 hours ago
🍎 Shanah Tovah! Happy Rosh Hashanah! 🌟

As the Jewish New Year begins, we celebrate new beginnings, reflection, and renewal. May this Rosh Hashanah bring peace, prosperity, and happiness to all. Here's to a year ahead, filled with love, hope, and growth.

Wishing our colleagues, partners, and friends observing this special holiday a blessed and meaningful celebration. 🍯🍏

Shanah Tovah Umetukah! 🕊✨ #RoshHashanah #NewYear #ShanahTovah #Celebration
American Messaging
American Messaging17 hours ago
🕊 Happy Gandhi Jayanti! 🇮🇳

On this day, we honor the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation and a global symbol of peace and non-violence. His teachings of truth, non-violence, and equality continue to inspire people around the world.

Let’s reflect on his wisdom and work together towards a world of harmony and justice.

🕉️ “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

#GandhiJayanti #Peace #NonViolence #Leadership #Inspiration
American Messaging
American Messaging7 days ago
🔒 AMS Connect’s Secure External Messaging – Connecting Hospitals with Patients, Safely

Our Secure External Messaging feature ensures hospitals and physicians can send important information to patients securely (such as lab/test results, treatment changes, appointment changes &/or pre and post op care instructions). Here’s how it works:

-Physicians send an encrypted SMS to patients within AMS Connect.
-Patients receive a secure text, uses two-factor authentication to open the message.Once complete, a secure message thread is available for up to 24 hours for communication between physician and patient.
-After 24 hours, the conversation closes for security.

🔗 Protect your communications with AMS Connect today!
#SecureMessaging #PatientSafety #HealthcareTech #AMSConnect
American Messaging
American Messaging2 weeks ago
Breaking News regarding why Paging remains critical in the healthcare environment today.
American Messaging
American Messaging
American Messaging2 weeks ago
🎉 Happy 77th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force! 🎉

Today, we honor the brave men and women who serve to protect our skies and our freedom. With a commitment to "Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do," the Air Force continues to fly, fight, and win. 🇺🇸✈️

Let’s celebrate the legacy of air dominance and the unwavering strength of the Air Force community.

"Aim High... Fly-Fight-Win!"

#USAirForce #FlyFightWin #AimHigh #USAFBirthday #AirPower #AmericanMessaging
American Messaging
American Messaging
American Messaging2 weeks ago
American Messaging is a critical messaging company that has provided paging devices to hundreds of thousands of healthcare and first responder customers in the United States for over 30 years. American Messaging utilizes Unication pagers which are intrinsically safe, meaning they are incapable of triggering combustion or igniting any gasses or fuels.

News reports indicate that subsequent to being manufactured, a third party embedded the Hezbollah pagers with an explosive material and detonated the explosive by an external command. All American Messaging paging devices are individually programmed to customer specifications and tested prior to leaving our distribution facility and shipped directly to our customers.

In addition, each device has UL approval labels to identify the unit as being UL approved for specified hazardous atmospheres. This label specifies the hazardous Class/Division/Group which will appear as follows: RAD DEV FOR HAZ LOC DIV2, I, A,B,C,D II F.G.. For more information on the UL listing visit this website https://www.ul.com/services/ul-and-c-ul-hazardous-areas-certification

#Pagers #paging #criticalmessagingassociation

Active Directory Integration

We left off outlining the benefits of implementing Single Sign-on allowing users to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials. This post will provide the benefits of utilizing Active Directory, “AD”. Active Directory enables administrators to manage permissions and access to network resources. The primary benefits of AD include centralized management of user accounts, permissions, and policy settings. Accounts are established by administrators in a centralized location allowing employees to login once and access their authorized resources. Through

Single Sign On

We left off relaying the importance of implementing end-to-end security for your critical messaging solution. Our next set of posts will focus on several integrations that will improve the security, convenience, and overall value of your messaging solution. The first integration we recommend is single sign-on, “SSO”. SSO allows users to login to multiple applications with a single set of credentials. Since users with SSO are only required to remember one password, they are more likely to select a stronger password

Critical Messaging – Security

Our last post provided valuable information to ensure you are receiving dependable service and support from your messaging vendors. Today we will focus on the importance of implementing end-to-end security for your critical messaging solution. Within the healthcare environment there are many clinical and non-clinical workflows addressed with various types of messaging solutions. Some include patient health information, and many do not. To protect yourselves from messages with PHI inadvertently being sent over unsecure technologies, it is recommended that all

Critical Messaging – Service Delivery and Support

We left off discussing the importance of having distinct alerts notifying users of messages that are critical and time sensitive. In this post we discuss important things to consider regarding vendor customer service and support. Products and services can only solve problems if they are available and work as expected. We all wish technology was flawless, but experience indicates that unforeseen issues will arise. Without a proven process for delivery and support, the user experience can suffer diminishing the value

Critical Messaging Alerting Strategy

In our last post we discussed best practices for implementing a connection strategy to deliver critical messages from internal and external messaging solutions. Today we discuss the importance of having distinct alerts notifying users of messages that are critical and time sensitive. We all live in a world where messages, notifications and alerts come from many different people, places, and things. In a healthcare environment these can be personal, or care related and arrive on smart phones with various combinations

Critical Messaging Connection Strategy

We left off discussing the importance of having a primary and secondary wireless network for your most critical messages. In this post we discuss connections utilized to send messages from internal and external messaging solutions. There are several types of protocols available to send messages from internal messaging systems to wireless networks with varying levels of security and reliability. The most prominent include SMTP, SNPP, WCTP and TAP. When developing your connection strategy, the following attributes are imperative to consider.

Critical Messaging Network Reliability

As discussed in our previous post, having an independent strategy and solution for clinical and critical messaging provides the most efficient and effective method of addressing healthcare communication workflows. The next several updates will provide the essential attributes associated with a critical messaging solution. In our view the most important element is network reliability. Implementing a solution relying exclusively on public broadband and Wi-Fi provides significant risks. These networks can easily become overwhelmed causing message delays and are subject to

Current Landscape for Healthcare Communication

As we enter 2024 the landscape for healthcare communication continues to evolve and we wanted to provide a short overview regarding our perspective as nationwide leaders in the critical communications industry for healthcare. Healthcare Communication has advanced throughout the years from the days of paging and PBX to a much broader product suite which now includes comprehensive clinical communication platforms. Along the way variables such as wireless coverage, economics, security, and demographics have driven the decision-making process for new technology

Clinical and Critical messaging solutions reside in two separate lanes and each support valuable workflows that improve patient care and safety.

Nurses send the majority of EHR messages, while medical providers receive more of them than any other hospital workers, a study in JAMA Network Open found.

International Congress of the Critical Messaging Association #CMABerlin23

The Critical Messaging Association (CMA) invited experts from all over the world to the international congress #CMABerlin23 from September 26 to 29, 2023 in Berlin.