2025-10-27 – Weekly Healthcare News : Pagers out, secure messaging in

Last week on the forum, our community engaged in rich discussions surrounding the evolving landscape of healthcare jobs, with a particular focus on urgent care and remote opportunities. Members also explored technological shifts, such as transitioning from pagers to secure messaging platforms. Additionally, educational content on MRI artifacts sparked interest, alongside lighter conversations about healthcare myths.


This Week’s Hot Topics

Weekly Healthcare Jobs: Urgent care roles in high demand
There’s a notable uptick in urgent care positions—worth checking out if you’re seeking a fast-paced environment where your skills are in high demand.
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Boost Your Career with Remote Healthcare Jobs!
Remote healthcare roles continue to gain traction, offering flexibility and new career paths for healthcare professionals.
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CE on 3T MRI artifacts and comfort
Dive into the complexities of 3T MRI technology and learn how to enhance patient comfort—valuable for anyone involved in radiology.
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Moving off pagers to secure messaging
Explore the transition from traditional pagers to secure messaging—an important step towards modernizing communication in healthcare settings.
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Demand for Family Medicine Physicians
Family medicine continues to be a critical need. This could be a great opportunity if you’re considering this field.
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Do babies really have no kneecaps?
A light-hearted yet informative thread debunking common myths about infant anatomy.
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Looking forward to another engaging week. Feel free to jump into any of these discussions or start your own. Catch you on the forum!

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At our urgent care we scrapped pagers last spring; the one change that stuck was making everyone start time‑critical messages with ‘STAT:’ so triage is instant and nothing urgent gets buried. Small caveat: we still keep a paper call tree for outages.

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We moved to Epic Secure Chat; ‘role-based’ groups cut noise — @Guide, add quiet hours and a downtime call-tree.

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