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Healthcare IT Trends and Challenges

Technology and digitization are disrupting every industry—and healthcare is no exception. In this time-critical industry, patient care needs to be efficient and convenient. This is increasingly evidenced by the rise of individualized healthcare via direct-to-consumer (D2C) and convenience care models such as telemedicine to find doctors, pay bills, schedule appointments, order prescription refills, receive consultations, and more.

Understanding Systemic Issues: The PagerDuty Health Check Process

Continuous improvement is one of the fundamental tenets of Agile methodology that PagerDuty’s product development teams emphasize. This already works fairly well at the individual team level via retrospective meetings and postmortems but sometimes we don’t notice larger or systemic issues that are outside the control of a single team. This blog will share the process that we use at PagerDuty to uncover those issues, the outcomes we have seen, and how we have evolved that process.

August 2019 Update: Mobile Alert Dashboard and PSD2 Support

Our August update makes SIGNL4 fit for the new “Payment Services Directive 2”. In addition, we have added extended the mobile alert dashboard and added new metrics. The enhanced dashboard of the SIGNL4 mobile app now shows alert counters per ‘services & systems’ category. Here come the details….

Introducing a detailed History and Resend capabilities for Emergency Callouts

Emergency callouts are some of the most important notifications a user can receive. With the optional ‘Emergency Callout’ add-on, the capability to reliably alert and notify large numbers of employees can become part of your Enterprise Alert installation. These callouts can tell users about dangerous situations such as inclement weather, fires in the building, or even security issues like active shooter in the building. It is imperative that users receive these notifications.

Optimizing Business Response When Technical Incidents Happen

Most technical incident response plans typically account for stakeholder communications—for both internal teams and external customers. But at PagerDuty, what we’ve learned from our customers is that there’s still a painful and expensive gap in alignment between IT and business teams. To close that gap, we need to focus on what incident response means for business teams.

PagerDuty Pulse Aug 2019

Catch up on all the exciting things we’ve released over the past several months. In this edition of PagerDuty Pulse, you’ll get insight into our most recent releases, which help teams across the enterprise effectively take action during the most critical moments with the power of data, intelligence, and automation at scale. We’re excited to release and share new enhancements to the core platform, as well as across many of our products (Event Intelligence, Modern Incident Response, Analytics, and Visibility).

How to Guard Against Cybersecurity Threats With Incident Alert Management

The current business environment requires organizations to implement cybersecurity safeguards to avert disasters associated with breaches, loss of data and hefty fines. Simply implementing a cybersecurity plan isn’t enough, it’s also important to incorporate the right solutions and workflows to prevent a disaster. This post will discuss the current state of cybersecurity, highlighting what organizations should be mindful of to successfully defend against malicious parties.

MetaPack Counts on PagerDuty to Deliver the Best Customer Experiences

MetaPack is the leading provider of e-commerce delivery management technology to enterprise retailers and brands. In this video, several members of the tech team at MetaPack share how PagerDuty empowers teams throughout the company with data, clarity, and context so that they are able to work together to respond to issues in real time and have confidence when making complex technical decisions in the future.