The Use of Technology for Urgent Clinician to Clinician Communications: A systematic review of the literature

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Technology is evolving rapidly and plays a prominent role in the healthcare system. Over the past 20 years, clinicians have faced an increasing communication burden, due in part to the proliferation of devices such as pagers, smart phones, and tablets.[1–3] Until the last several years, one-way numeric paging has been the main route of communication among clinicians and other multidisciplinary teams. The introduction of alphanumeric paging has allowed one-way communication to take place without the recipient having to respond via telephone call to each numeric page. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).