OnPage vs. Squadcast

OnPage is excellent as an on-call doctor paging system; it replaces the need for our call center, lets us have our answer, and either take patient information or be patched immediately through. This gives us time to finish anything we may be doing that might be urgent without losing their information as it is written in the app or time to pull up the patient's chart before calling them back.

Incentivized

We tied Squadcast into our CI/CD pipeline for Airflow monitoring of workflows, and had it looking for failures and specific jobs. Then communicating out to a resource group with automated no answer or response next person communication. A lot of tools stop at one generic communication, but Squadcast allows you to take it a step further.

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• Delivers prompt messages with important information for patient call back
• Overrides phone ring settings if needed to ensure a sound is made if desired and no pages are missed
• Repeats pages frequently if not opened initially, so they are not forgotten

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• Allows you to configure monitoring on events across the enterprise
• Very flexible in the channels that you can communicate to - i.e. Slack, Email, SMS, etc...
• Provides integrations into the systems that you use on a daily basis
• Has a very easy to use online interface that comes with little to no learning curve

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• Not really a "downside": because it works so well, any details we haven't documented from our initial setup are probably lost. It's been almost four years since our initial configuration, and I can no longer easily navigate the OnPage site because I literally haven't logged in since the initial implementation.

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• Can be costly depending on how deep your budget is!
• Support is not always the best

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It works and is reliable

Easy to use both web and phone based application.

Some outages for updates

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I have done well with the service

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When we have issues we have fast response and willingness to help

I had no part of the implementation

Out of these, PagerDuty has been my favorite. OnPage is my second favorite so far. The two systems do the same thing. OnPage has a less painful punch in the wallet for the needed technology. The xMatters and ShoreTel Connect only redirect the call and trigger a single alert. Neither of these two products alerts a second time or escalates the ticket. OnPage and Pager Duty have escalation channels. OnPage has an easier scheduler to understand than Pager Duty, however.

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Squadcast is a much more user friendly product that works with multiple platforms and tools. I can't say this easily for the other tools that I've used

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I have had no concerns

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• Eliminated the concern that on-call personnel were not notified of an issue at all or on a timely basis
• The reasonable cost, ease of use and reliability reassured management that any issues arising would be handled quickly
• Users disliked carrying the bulky, unreliable and battery operated pagers. Today all users carry cell phones and can easily install and manage OnPage software

• Squadcast has allowed us to reduce cost of an incident overall by reducing time to find an issue, communicate, and get an assigned resource.
• Squadcast has created an increased awareness among teams in the enterprise of services and processes.

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