Stories about improving the lives of healthcare professionals, patients, and families.

Hospital IT leaders have made massive investments over the last 20 years on digital technologies. They’ve built an electronic health record infrastructure. They’ve deployed digital technologies like wireless nurse call, digital radiology, and more.

July 29, 2022, marks 23 years of celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day, a day to honor those who work diligently to keep systems up and running, solve problems, and prevent disasters.

Healthcare system administrators are the backbone that enables clinical workflows to run…

Each year around International Nurses Day, I release a CNO Perspective report that focuses on an issue that’s emerged as top of mind for the nurse leaders I’ve partnered and consulted with throughout the year. This year’s report is a response to the challenges of nurse fatigue and the need to…

Hospital leaders are facing staffing pressures like we’ve never seen before. At the same time, violence against healthcare workers is on the rise.

Our new eGuide showcases five healthcare organizations that are using Vocera solutions to ease the burden of patient care workflows and…

The Great Resignation is hitting healthcare in full force. Healthcare workers are quitting in droves. It is heart wrenching to witness the demise of the profession of nursing and to know that many of my colleagues would not recommend the profession of medicine to their…

The collaboration started with a simple question: what if we could get a group of healthcare workforce well-being experts together to create a list of the top five most critical well-being actions that leaders could take now to support healthcare…

The average clinician navigates among five or more devices and applications to communicate and collaborate during a shift. Fragmentation across infrastructure, devices, integration points, applications, and clinical…

Nursing is a high-stress, exhausting profession – mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting. During a global pandemic, “exhausting” really doesn’t seem like a strong enough word to describe it. Nurse burnout is at an all-time high.

I have been an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at…

In 2021, the CEO Coalition, a group of health system leaders across the US, engaged the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to research evidence- and experience-based practices that support team member safety and well-being principles outlined in its Heart of Safety: Declaration of…

As hospital leaders continue to cope with COVID-19 surges and increasingly severe staffing pressures, I thought there would be value in sharing some ways Vocera customers have used our communication technology to ease the hard work of patient care.

Under conditions that have left far too…