Vocera Chief Medical Officer Bridget Duffy among taskforce co-founders designing blueprint and metric for care team resilience
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
SAN JOSE, Calif.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Vocera
Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical
communication and workflow solutions, and the company’s Experience
Innovation Network will host its 14th Chief Experience
Officer (CXO) Roundtable April 25-26, 2018, in San Francisco. During
this two-day event, The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare
(NTH) will release its
position paper, which outlines the business case for clinician
resilience and well-being.
“We need to change the dialogue around physician and nurse burnout,”
said Bridget Duffy, MD, chief medical officer of Vocera, and co-founder
of the Experience Innovation Network, a community of healthcare thought
leaders focused on innovations that address the Quadruple Aim.
“Clinician burnout is the manifestation of a system problem that
requires system-level solutions. We must move beyond talking about the
prevention of burnout, and instead systemically focus on well-being. We
need to deploy technologies and solutions that remove hassles, cultivate
human connections, and support the sacred relationships between
clinicians and patients.”
Dr. Duffy partnered with two physician peers, Ronald Paulus, MD, MBA,
CEO of Mission Health, and William Maples, MD, president and CEO of The
Institute for Healthcare Excellence, to co-design and launch the NTH.
The Taskforce, comprised of doctors, nurses, healthcare executives,
cross-industry allies, and other change agents, is exploring the crisis
of burnout and driving to create a movement that helps care team members
achieve their highest healing potential. In support of its mission to
humanize healthcare, the NTH has outlined three
imperatives in its position paper: change the dialog around burnout;
create and adopt a metric for humanity; and design a blueprint for
change.
These imperatives will be central themes at the spring CXO Roundtable,
where members of the NTH will take the stage along with patient
advocates, physician and nurse leaders, healthcare executives,
innovators and researchers.
“Convening members of the Experience Innovation Network with NTH members
will be make for a powerful and influential CXO Roundtable,” said Dr.
Duffy. “I am excited about generating new conversations about the future
of caring that are focused on promoting resilience, well-being, and joy
for all healthcare team members.”
About Vocera
The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to simplify and improve
the lives of healthcare professionals and patients, while enabling
hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency. In
2000, when the company was founded, we began to forever change the way
care teams communicate. Today, Vocera continues to offer the leading
platform for clinical communication and workflow. More than 1,700
facilities worldwide, including 1,500 hospitals and healthcare
facilities, have selected our solutions for team members to text
securely using smartphones or make calls with our hands-free, wearable
Vocera Badge. Interoperability between Vocera and more than 150 clinical
and operational systems helps reduce alarm fatigue, speed up staff
response times, and improve patient care, safety and experience. In
addition to healthcare, Vocera is at home in luxury hotels, aged care
facilities, nuclear facilities, libraries, retail stores and more.
Vocera makes a difference in any industry where workers are on the move
and need to connect instantly with team members and access resources or
information quickly. In 2017, Vocera made the list of Forbes 100 Most
Trustworthy Companies in America. Learn more at www.vocera.com,
and follow @VoceraComm on Twitter.
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Vocera Communications, Inc.
Shanna Hearon, 865-805-1078
shearon@vocera.com
