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Redistributing the Wealth: Vocera, Politics, and Giving Badges to the People Who Really Want Them
Posted by: Kenny on May 8, 2008 | 0 comments
Like a lot of things in life, at hospitals, who ends up with what technology is not always fair. More often than not there are those who don’t get what they need, even when others don’t use what they have. Today’s post is the first in a series about two customers ...
Look Ma, No Middleware: SIP, Nurse Call and the fight to control staff device assignment
Posted by: Kenny on March 13, 2008 | 5 comments
Despite having successfully worked together for a number of years, a while back Rauland-Borg and Emergin came to an apparent major falling out over how Emergin’s Staff Assignment client app would interact (or replace) Rauland’s Responder NET. As I heard it they actually went down to the wire regarding an ...
Nurse Call Integration Assignment Process with Vocera
Posted by: Bill on December 18, 2007 | 0 comments
One of the greatest benefits that is often overlooked in a Vocera implementation is nurse call integration. Allowing patient calls to be directed to the appropriate caregiver (either with or without a unit administrator triaging the call) in real time and then allowing that caregiver to call back to the room ...
‘Middleware First’ is not the Best Alternative
Posted by: Bill on October 24, 2007 | 0 comments
Although I have tremendous respect for my colleague Kenny, I cannot totally accept a strategy of looking at band-aiding existing systems to take the place of a Vocera solution. I see two primary reasons. One is another middle-ground alternative. The other is what's being overlooked with an alarm management solution ...
When the Middleware First Alarm Management Strategy Makes Sense
Posted by: Kenny on October 19, 2007 | 0 comments
A few weeks back a hospital prospect called me in to discuss Vocera, and to meet some of the potential collaborators for a potential VoWiFi project. They'd previously had a very well-received Vocera demo and wanted to make sure that the work that they were doing to build out their ...
Rethinking Nurse Call
Posted by: Bill on February 25, 2007 | 0 comments
With all the innovation in medical technology and clinical software applications, it amazes me how little innovation there has been in nurse call solution over the years. I walk in hospitals that have invested millions on new software applications and have 20 year old technology for nurse call. . This ...