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Vocera Reporting is a Powerful Tool to find out What’s Happening, but also What’s Happened
Posted by: Kenny on November 11, 2011 | 0 comments
Often overlooked, one of the most powerful Vocera features is its Report Server (VRS). The folks back in San Jose did some smart things early on, not the least of which was to use standardized tools for collecting and managing data (MySQL), but also their user of Crystal Reports as a framework for reporting. Out of the box, with no customization, Vocera's canned reports can tell you a lot about what's happening. Add on the ability to schedule and email these reports and you end up having a nice set of management tools that are easy to use, with data ...
BlackBerry & Clinical Collaboration: Can RIM Win in Healthcare?
Posted by: Kenny on September 16, 2010 | 1 comment
For the last three months Research in Motion, along with their key healthcare oriented ISV's AirStrip, Amcom, Globestar, Voalté, and Wallace Wireless has been taking their Clinical Collaboration Summit on the road. With their new OS6 and host of new enhancements to their platform, RIM wants hospital customers to think beyond the device. With so much smartphone attention shifting to Apple's device centric IOS for the iPhone and iPad, and Google's ever increasing Android ecosystem, RIM wants customers to not see them as just a smartphone manufacturer ...
No Longer Just the Badge. Device Diversity Comes to Vocera Communications
Posted by: Kenny on September 3, 2010 | 0 comments
We recently reached out to Vocera Communications President and COO Brent Lang to catch up on Vocera's latest developments and to get a peek at their roadmap. While the Vocera's iconic hands-free wearable badge remains the primary means of user interaction for customers who have deployed their speech enabled communication solution, recent shifts in their platform signal a much more diverse and open ecosystem that is interoperable with iPhones, Blackberrys and IP PBXs, with only more diversity to come. Read the intensive one-on-one interview with Vocera President Brent Lang in Internet.com's EnterpriseMobileToday.
RTLS & WiFi Conversation Heats Up on LinkedIn Group…
Posted by: Kenny on July 22, 2010 | 1 comment
If you are in the RTLS industry or a customer investigating the purchase of a a real time asset tracking solution, there is an active conversation going on in the LinkedIn Real Time Location System group. If your not a LinkedIn user, you will need to join to view the group, but worth paying attention to. Shoalib Oosman, from you the UK based firm Globalpark queried the group regarding the relevance of using WiFi vs. a parallel sensory network. I have two customer discussions going on at the moment - both require real time asset ...
Is Passive RFID Really an Option for Active RFID?
Posted by: Bill on May 26, 2010 | 2 comments
As is the case most of the time, healthcare customers don't really care whether they have active or passive RFID technology only that it solves their business problem. The only time they begin to care is when they realize the tag and infrastructure expense and consider the real return on that investment. In addition to the tags, all RFID solutions require varying degrees of sensing technology to be layered on top of the existing environment. This often opens up a complex set of issues for facilities, IT and the clinical staff. For both passive and active, the ...
Vocera iPhone Client Hits AppStore… Wider Interoperability to Come?
Posted by: Kenny on May 19, 2010 | 0 comments
Today Vocera Communications announced the availability of a iPhone client application. While there is no specific mention of interoperability with other mobile devices to come, this does begin to extend the Vocera engine beyond the badge in a direction that has yet to be fleshed out to date. The Motorola powered Vocera smartphone represented a shift beyond the badge world, as did the introduction of the Windows mobile client for Motorola MC55, MC70 and MC75; however, these are more industrial grade types of devices, and not necessarily consumer oriented like the iPhone. There were some earlier explorations with ...
Losing Telemetry Transmiters and Pulse Oximeter Probes Down the Laundy Chute?
Posted by: Kenny on April 27, 2010 | 0 comments
Active RFID and enterprise visibility systems are being discussed everywhere, but for many customers there's lower hanging fruit using passive RFID. Asset rescue applications that facilitate the efficient recovery of valuable portable biomedical equipment and accessories from being accidentally discarded in hospital laundry or trash can be deployed very quickly and reliably at reasonable cost. Two commonly cited examples of such items are cardiac telemetry transmitters and related leadsets and reusable pulse oximeter probes. Ongoing loss and replacement of these durable assets can become a large cost burden ...
