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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...

We’re pleased to share an excerpt of a blog from Lori Dickinson, Senior Director of Technical Support at Vocera, published on the HIMSS National Health IT Week website. Read the full blog and others commemorating this week...

It was a Monday night, the busiest time in the ED. The ED charge nurse received an alert on her Vocera smartphone app.

The alert was from Qventus, which predicts operational bottlenecks and recommends course corrections....

Watch the Stunning Simplicity of Vocera Nurse-Physician Communication

This video tells...

Community Health Network is a proud partner of the Experience Innovation Network,...