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What do all these health systems have in common?

• Leaders at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital realized they were overloading their front-line teams with an overwhelming number of improvement initiatives. They embarked on a five-year plan to ensure...

This guest blog post is by Bryan Fiekers, Senior Director of Research Services at HIMSS Analytics

Before and during HIMSS2017, Vocera® worked with HIMSS Analytics to survey 124 clinical and IT leaders at...

A CNO I know was part of a team of hospital leaders who had the goal of making it easier for clinicians to communicate. On the heels of what seemed like years of constant change and pushing for adoption of new or updated technologies, the hospital inserted smart phones into the patient-care...

A hospital’s team of respiratory therapists had trouble keeping up with STAT orders. Sometimes the orders were buried within patient records in the EHR. Often the therapists couldn’t access the EHR for hours while engaged with a patient or on a transport. Occasionally they missed...

As the medical emergency team worked on the patient recovering from back surgery, Dr. Susan Baxter sat down at a computer and tried to piece together what had led to his respiratory failure. Was this a case of opioid induced respiratory depression, pulmonary embolism, or perhaps a...

Halifax Health is a safety net hospital for the state of Florida. We see about 85,000 to 90,000 patient visits a year in our main campus emergency department(ED). It is one of the largest emergency departments in central Florida and includes a Level 2 Trauma Center, so the patients...

This blog first appeared in the Follow the Conversation section of The Zetema Project website.

In recent years, much of the focus for healthcare transformation...

Vocera is excited to announce at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS17) Conference in Orlando that its app for the Salesforce Health Cloud, Vocera Rounds, will extend the abilities of Salesforce Health Cloud, taking purposeful patient rounding to the...

... and how today’s healthcare technologies are already relieving the pain

When it comes to clinical communications and workflow, today’s headaches could become tomorrow’s – but they don’t have to. In our new eGuide, we look at four key...

After months of deliberating (six, to be exact), The Joint Commission (TJC) and U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued final guidance regarding secure texting options for provider order entry. While the statement was not what we were hoping for, it is...