I am a hospitalist and we still occasionally use pagers, but they are not reliable like people assume. Dropped/missed pages happen, probably at about 1-5% frequ

I am a hospitalist and we still occasionally use pagers, but they are not reliable like people assume. Dropped/missed pages happen, probably at about 1-5% frequency. The battery life is great but still my phone can be recharged and is much less wasteful with battery use. There is a major trend to transition to hipaa compliant text messaging apps which work much better and efficiently. Some are built into EMRs.