Unify Care Teams
Address Mandates for Safety and Efficiency
The frustration and inefficiency of siloed, fragmented communication
are well understood by care teams: Communication dead ends.
Page-and-wait toil. Alarm and interruption fatigue. Not knowing who is
contacting you or why. It all puts patient safety at risk.
A strategy
for replacing pagers and siloed text messaging apps must address
clinical communication in a holistic, consolidated way, making it easy
for people to find each other and connect instantly inside or outside
the hospital.
Unify Care Teams
Customer Story Summary: Niagara Health
Niagara Health needed a solution to help unify clinical communications across its five hospital sites. It wanted to provide physicians, nurses, and other members of staff with a standard means to communicate.
“We were using pagers, VoIP phones, and other disparate communication methods to get ahold of each other prior to Vocera,” said Chuck Quigley, Transformation Director at Niagara Health.
20% reduction in number of people injured in aggressive incidentsOne important way the healthcare provider uses its Vocera system is to safeguard staff and patients. After deploying Vocera technology systemwide for staff duress calls, the number of people injured in aggressive incidents has decreased by 20%.
Jeff Wilson
Director of Information and Communications Technology at Niagara Health“Because the Vocera Platform is device agnostic, we were able to standardize clinical communication across our hospital campus with ease.”
Sean Spina
BSc(Pharm), ACPR, PharmD, FCSHP, Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator at Island Health“"The metric I like most is that 81% of the physicians agreed or strongly agreed that they’d like to continue using Vocera."”
Susan Levers
Head of Nursing for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust“We knew the Vocera system could help us improve communication and get rid of the need for relentless phone calls and bleeps.”
Get the Guide:
Pager Replacement
Unify Care Teams
for Patient Safety
Four-Part Strategy for Replacing Pagers
Optimize safety and quality by replacing pagers with a secure, flexible, holistic communication platform.
- 1Unify communication to unify care teams
- 2Support the transition to minimize risk
- 3Integrate and interoperate with systems and devices
- 4Communicate and share information easily
Solve for siloed, fragmented communication with support to manage change and minimize risk.
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Choose the Right Device for the Role
- Vocera Smartbadge: Hands-free voice, text messaging, and alarm notifications with patient, event, and care team context
- Vocera App for iPhone or Android Smartphone: Voice, text messages, and alarm notifications with patient, event, and care team context
- Vocera Badge: Hands-free voice, receive basic text messages and alarm notifications
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How to Communicate Safely
While Wearing PPE
In this webinar, a nurse on a telemetry unit checks on patients, connects with resources, and manages priorities – without doffing PPE or touching a phone.
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Smartphones:
Understand How Patient Safety Comes First
Follow a charge nurse who always sees what needs to be done next. Patient safety is prioritized because communications are prioritized and event-driven.
