Welcome to our blog, your destination for stories about making life better for patients and care teams.

Maria, a perioperative nurse at Tufts Medical Center, sat by the bedside of a COVID-negative elderly patient, Alex, who was in the hospital following an emergency surgery. Alex had connected with her family earlier in the day via facetime (with her case manager’s assistance), but now faced…

July 31 marks the twenty-first annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as SysAdmin Day. System Administrator Appreciation Day’s official website says it is “the perfect opportunity to pay tribute to the heroic men and women…

Many world leaders have compared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to a war. Some people are uneasy with this comparison while others might agree with it to a limited extent.

One Italian professor of economic history recently made the point that “War-economy logic prevails…

When 2020 was designated the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife,“ no one could have predicted that this fateful year would give us so many reasons to honor nurses and other frontline heroes.

Regardless of the…

If your loved one were hospitalized and nearing the end of life during the COVID-19 crisis, would you want to visit him or her to say good-bye? It’s a hard question to ponder. And one where many loved ones have not had a choice.

For sound reasons of infection control and conserving…

Each May, I write a CNO Perspective report on a topic that’s top of mind for nurse leaders. Last year, I wrote about reducing cognitive load for nurses and other healthcare professionals. I’ve spent the past year speaking and…

It’s an image we’ve all come to dread. A patient is lying alone in a hospital bed. Maybe she is COVID-positive. Maybe she is here because of complications from another condition. She has no loved ones around her – and no hope of visitors, given the restrictive policies designed to keep her, her…

I lead the Vocera technical support organization, overseeing support staff responsible for our customers’ post-deployment…

It’s becoming too common for hospitals to be taking extreme measures to service COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cases in the face of…

We’ve organized a Vocera COVID-19 Response Task Force to define simple configurations of our technology that customers can use…