No Longer Just the Badge. Device Diversity Comes to Vocera Communications
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 ...
September 3, 2010
Vocera iPhone Client Hits AppStore… Wider Interoperability to Come?
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. ...
May 19, 2010
In Healthcare Communications, One Device Does Not Fit All…Yet
Is Your Hospital Considering a One Communication Device Strategy? Here are some key points to consider from my recent article in EnterpriseMobileToday.com. 1. Usability matters. A NICU nurse whose hands are busy diapering a baby has very different needs than someone dispatching code teams, or an anesthesiologist. In pointing out the ...
January 4, 2010
Vocera, Hospitalists, Nocturnists and DND
According to the March 12th issues of the New England Journal of Medicine (as reported in MedPage Today), in some regions of the US, upwards of 70% of inpatient care now being taken care of by hospitalists. With the steady rise of these physicians who are primarily hospital employees, ...
April 22, 2009
Vocera and the Night Transporters
Recently, while doing regular rounds as part of our ongoing support for one of our customers, I observed Kathy G (night manager) and a nurse pushing a bed with a patient in it to one of the nursing units. When I asked her where the transporter was (Brian M. was ...
April 10, 2009