After Virus Blacks Out Email, Hospital Turns To Mobile Contact List For Emergency Communications

By BlackBerry by Research In Motion

The McGill University Health Centre wanted an easy way to maintain a current list of PIN-to-PIN numbers to keep their staff communicating on their BlackBerry® smartphones in the event of a communications interruption with their internal email server or system-wide virus that affected their email.

Medical staff are pushed a list of current BlackBerry® smartphone PIN numbers and can communicate using their BlackBerry smartphones using PINpoint, an application from Tenet Computer Group Inc. The application ensures a list of contact information is automatically updated and pushed out to the BlackBerry smartphones without people having to maintain their own contact lists.

McGill University Health Centre's Results

• Back-up communications plan for an emergency
• Easier for end users
• Reduced IT effort
• Accurate contact information with automatic provisioning