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Spok Conference Highlights Importance of Care Team Communication Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

October 12, 2020

Company to demonstrate the latest capabilities of its cloud-native communication platform, Spok Go®

This week Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, welcomes more than 550 attendees to Connect 20 Virtual, the Company’s annual conference for healthcare professionals. The virtual event will give healthcare clinicians, IT experts, and C-suite executives a chance to learn from one another about the future of care team communication and share insights about how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how they use health IT.

“2020 has been one of the most difficult and unprecedented periods in healthcare,” said Vincent D. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Spok Holdings, Inc. “As we look toward the future of healthcare communications, there are many unknowns. Yet one thing is certain: Healthcare has changed, but the importance of care team communication has not.”

This year, Spok

3 Ways To Ensure Your Crisis Management And Communication Plans Will Work

October 12, 2020

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SKOREA DRILLS — Emergency service personnel carry a man playing the role of an attacker onto a stretcher during a … [+] simulated chemical terrorism crisis as part of an anti-terror drill on the sidelines of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) military exercises at the Korea International Exhibition & Convention Center (KINTEX) in Goyang, South Korea, on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. South Korean President Moon Jae-in warned North Korea not to use his nation’s latest round of annual military drills with the U.S. as an excuse for any further provocations. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

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Even before Covid-19, companies and organizations were gambling with their futures and the health and lives of employees if they did not take steps to ensure their crisis plans would work when needed — assuming, of course, that they had plans in place.

According to a 2019 survey conducted by CS&A International and PR News,

La. Tech’s new health communication center teams with LDH

September 30, 2020

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Published 5:01 a.m. CT Sept. 30, 2020

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Louisiana Tech students are involved in an ongoing project that will help the Louisiana Department of Health create different much-needed items for the state’s COVID-19 health outreach activities.

The opportunity arose when Tech’s new Center for Health and Medical Communication was recently asked to join the LDH’s COVID-19 Communication-Health Promotion Advisory Council. The Center was then tasked with creating educational information not only on COVID-19, but also on other infectious diseases, such as the flu.

A collaborative effort between the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Engineering and Science, the Center for Health and Medical Communication was created in the Spring 2020 and falls under the University’s Research and Innovation Enterprise as a Research Center of Excellence.

The center’s purpose is to conduct original research in health and medical communication, both to identify

The eyes don’t have it: Masks upset classroom communication

September 27, 2020

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Placing an order at a deli counter while wearing a mask and standing 6 feet away can be difficult. Try teaching a class full of schoolchildren and connecting with students who are themselves wearing masks.

Teachers who in ordinary times rely on their voices to convey nuances of language and manage classroom behavior are tasked with not sounding like the trombone-produced “wah wah” of the Charlie Brown TV specials while protecting themselves and their students from the coronavirus.

To help themselves communicate with students, teachers have turned to masks with clear patches over their mouths, set up plexiglass bubbles inside classrooms so they can speak without masks, and in some cases turned to props to get across how they are feeling.

Stephanie Wanzer, a teacher who works with special education students in Fairfield County, Connecticut, uses a stick with an image of a smile during her sessions.

“I try to

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Spok Conference Highlights Importance of Care Team Communication Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

3 Ways To Ensure Your Crisis Management And Communication Plans Will Work

La. Tech’s new health communication center teams with LDH

The eyes don’t have it: Masks upset classroom communication