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This month, Vocera® celebrates our 20^th year as a company.

A few months before we were founded, the U.S. Institute of Medicine issued the report, To Err Is Human: Building a…

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Allie is a nurse in a busy trauma center. She’s managing a half dozen points of complexity when the call comes in: An ambulance is on its way to the hospital, bringing in a young man who was just struck by…

Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs puts safety nearly at the base of the pyramid, just above basic physiologic needs such as food, sleep, and shelter. That’s because when a person faces real or perceived threats to safety, the desire to find safety will dominate behavioral motivation.…

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U.S. National Health IT Week celebrates the essential role of health IT in transforming health and healthcare in the US. This year the week’s theme focuses on applying information and technology to support healthy communities.

Technology has tremendous potential to transform the health…

September 8 holds a special place at Vocera – and not just because it’s Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses’ Day. It is also the anniversary of Star Trek’s first episode and the chance to celebrate our co-founders’ original vision of bringing the Star Trek communicator to life. The idea set…

Dr. Penny Cooper, DHSc, is a data scientist at Augusta Health

Augusta Health is a community hospital nestled in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley focused on improving the health and well-being of our community. The statewide sepsis mortality rate in…

Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States fall in the hospital each year, and a third to a half of those falls result in injury…

On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral, the iconic and beloved monument, burned and was nearly lost in its entirety despite an enormously complex and expensive fire alarm system built exclusively to prevent such a disaster.

As a post-mortem examination has revealed, there are lessons…