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Enabling patient-centered care and fostering care team well-being are core values of Vocera and our Experience Innovation...

Guest Blog Post with Susan Ievers, Clinical Lead Matron and Helene Ramsay, Vocera Clinical Support, at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

In April 2018, we opened a brand-new hospital wing at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The new wing includes...

Sixteen years ago when we introduced the Vocera Badge, nurses told us, “You’re going to change the way nursing is practiced around the world.”

Vocera technology was revolutionary because it enabled nurses (and, in many cases, doctors) to communicate instantly and easily, without...

The healthcare system and its workforce are buckling under the weight of dramatic change, rising acuity, and pressure to reign in resources. To heal healthcare, we envision a Connected Healing Ecosystem of people, process, and technology that fosters respectful, empathetic...

Harvard Business Review recently published an article I authored called Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care.

The article is about finding...

Quality and Safety in Patient Care

Meg Shaw, a nurse on a hospital’s rapid response team, completes an examination of a patient recovering from surgery. The patient’s primary nurse had requested rapid response team assistance after being alerted that her patient had a low...

Earlier this year, KLAS issued its first report about smartphone usage in healthcare, titled Clinical Mobility 2018 – Leveraging a Smartphone Strategy. It offers a lot of valuable information...

The team at the Experience Innovation Network, part of Vocera, spent the past few months talking with patients and families who have experience working with health systems to drive improvement. We also spoke with...

1 Doctor, 1 Patient, 5 Apps: A True Tale

A physician needed to perform emergency surgery at a hospital that was in the same large integrated delivery...