Internal Communication Website

[hometownmedic5]

We use PlanitEMS for scheduling, time and attendance recording, time off, certification tracking, internal communication, and announcements.

The announcements have a feature that could be useful to some. If the administrator posting the announcement deems it mission critical, they can check a box that requires you to acknowledge that you read the announcement, which is logged and viewable on the admin side. You cant advance beyond that announcement to do anything else in the system, without acknowledging the memo.

If your agency is serious about communication and so forth, they will pay for a service that does the job well. If they dont give a hoot, they will use something like facebook, google, or some other nonsense solution. If they don't care, I don't care.

 

[Peak]

We have a very extensive intranet but that is mostly just for storing information rather than for any communication. We have staff meetings every one to two months and any policy changes are sent out by email. Since we often have patient information or other sensitive data in our emails we all have work emails that we are required to check at work and staff have access to through a virtual network with two factor authentication. The is used for all of our division services including the hospital services, HEMS/CCT, specialty transport teams, et cetera.

Back in the day... My old fire service had department email addresses for all staff and policy changes were sent out through email. We also had an intranet site but it was very underutilized and functionally did almost nothing. Staff could communicate shift swap requests via our scheduling software and it was pretty easy to set up trades. Most of our non-critical communication was on white boards in the bay or during our monthly staff meetings.