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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Strategies to Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) scrutinizes hospital readmission rates across the U.S. each year, and it levies financial penalties on organizations that overshoot acceptable hospital readmission rates. As healthcare systems across the country embark on a journey to introduce patient-centric models to their organizations, they must align their resources with ever-changing regulations for them to thrive.

Now Available: Private Slack Channels

Ever heard the saying “Too many cooks”? If you’ve responded to incidents, you’ll likely understand the parallels. There are cases when incident command on a public channel isn’t the best option: Whatever your reason, we’ve got you covered. Now available, users can spin up a private slack channel for an incident. Read more how to do this here.

Differences between Site Reliability Engineer Vs. Software Engineer Vs. Cloud Engineer Vs. DevOps Engineer

The evolution of Software Engineering over the last decade has lead to the emergence of numerous job roles. So how different is a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer and a Cloud Engineer from each other? In this blog, we drill down and compare the differences between these roles and their functions.

Customer Service Ops & PagerDuty Zendesk Integration v3 Full Case Ownership Use Case

PagerDuty's Zendesk Integration enhances communication between engineering and support teams by providing visibility to high-impact incidents via the PagerDuty Status Dashboard that is integrated into the Zendesk interface. Automate workflows for a fast-paced support team and provide the right level of information so they can interact knowledgeably with their customers while also reducing time and effort.

PD, Salesforce Service Cloud, Slack: Proactive Case Escalation & Slack-First Intelligent Swarming

Learn about and see how PagerDuty, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Slack empower collaboration across your organization to accelerate time to resolution. Proactively improve customer satisfaction in real time and break down silos to connect customer service teams with engineering teams to address incidents quickly when seconds matter. Enjoy greater control when resolving issues and anticipating customers' needs through an incident command console that gives customer service agents and stakeholders instant updates on critical, customer-impacting issues.

Why ChatOps & Incident Management are the Perfect Pair

ChatOps has become an integral part of software development and IT operations, as teams rely on automated notifications to take the place of manual alerts. In the past, if there was an alert, someone would need to manually find that notification. Then, they would have contact team members to notify them one by one so they could start working on a resolution. In this complex network of communications, it was easy to lose information, duplicate work, and simply waste time coordinating the team.

Service Profile: Activity Tab Updates

PagerDuty's new service profile enhancements allow you to better command and control incidents directly from the Service Profile. Now you can perform bulk actions on incidents like acknowledge or resolve, search by incident ID, add and view change integrations, browse resolved incidents, view related escalation policies from the service profile header, and more.

Next Generation Slack Migration Tool and Stakeholder Updates Demo

Learn more about PagerDuty's Collaboration Applications that help you streamline incident remediation. Enjoy these demos of our latest updates to our PagerDuty Slack and Microsoft Teams Applications including the Webhook Migration Tool, Stakeholder Updates, and Resolution Notes.