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RFID Asset Tracking in Hospitals

Hospitals and healthcare facilities can handle a variety of equipment and gadgets with the use of asset-tracking systems. However, many systems are antiquated, unstable, and prone to errors, which adds time and money to what should be a quick procedure. RFID asset tracking allows you to collect asset data in a fraction of the time it would take to locate your assets manually. RFID offers a fully automated and significantly more reliable method of tracking medical equipment.

How to Improve Your Hospital Asset Management Plan in 2025

As a healthcare organization owner, you may often deal with issues in locating the right medical equipment, whether for an emergency, regular use, or maintenance. At the same time, from overbuying assets, such as medical devices and supplies, to replacing equipment that still has life, many hospital administrators are spending more than necessary on clinical assets.

3 benefits of digitizing the customer experience

Digitizing the customer experience remains a key initiative for many organizations—even during a tough economic climate when cutbacks are running rampant. Investing in digital strategies to connect people, processes, and systems can yield a unified approach to customer service that drives efficiencies, empowers colleagues, and increases customer loyalty.

Services with a Smile: Service Graph and Service Standards

Principal Product Manager Davis Godbout joined the HowTo Happy Hour to talk about the Service Graph and Service Standards features in the PagerDuty platform. Service Graph gives your teams a visual representation of the relationships among your technical and business services. Service Standards guides teams to the benefits of PagerDuty’s features like integrations and configurable incident urgency.

Thinking Tech: A look at how technologies influence the way we interact at the workplace

Time flies by. Not long ago, companies had difficulty communicating across the organization and often had to deal with a lot of paperwork to do so. Technology has helped businesses make life simpler for employees, create an efficient working ecosystem, and work at a global level. But how much do these ever-growing technologies impact the way we interact at work?

A Comprehensive Guide to Chatting Rules and Etiquette for Service Desk Teams

It’s increasingly common for service desk teams to perform some support operations over a live chat. This is a win for everyone. When using chat support, employees are looking for quick wins when it comes to solving their problems, and in many cases, the service desk can help them quickly without needing a site visit. I worked the service desk way before online chats were possible, but the truth is not much has changed since then.

Jon Leighton on How the Digital Employee Experience is Central to a People-First IT

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is grossly understated in today’s corporate landscape, despite the growing interest in digital transformation in companies everywhere. Technology has long been central to the workplace, but not enough effort has been put into the experience of those who use it. Enterprises, especially global enterprises, can spend upward of tens of thousands of dollars on software and digital appliances to make work easier for their team.

Content Management vs. Knowledge Management 2025

Content management and knowledge management may seem like interchangeable terms and are often used as such. However, there are noticeable differences. Simply put, knowledge is more about gathering information and building a knowledge base and is more abstract. It is the know-how that resides in an organization. On the other hand, content in a business context is translating the know-how into output. For instance, content would include this blog that details content and knowledge management.

Manage art gallery with asset management software

An art gallery is a place where artists can showcase their work and sell their pieces. Asset management software can help gallery owners manage their inventory, keep track of sales, and track customer information. This type of software can also help with scheduling exhibitions and managing artist submissions.