Company Visit: Vocera

Healthcare facilities involve a mobile workforce that traditionally relies on a one-way paging system, which is often ineffective and can be a contributor to preventable deaths. Vocera's interactive messaging product enables healthcare staff to communicate with colleagues in a convenient and hands-free manner, compressing or eliminating several steps in their workflow. It also reduces the time to expedite patient care, which can be critical in emergency situations.

Customers using Vocera have experienced greater nurse satisfaction, patient satisfaction and increased patient safety. This directly contributes to lower nursing turnover, increased bed turnover and recovery of associated implementation costs through savings within 6 to 18 months.

Tech talk: Vocera links a company's employees using the communicator devices that utilizes the 802.11b network.

My favorite feature is the ability to locate a colleague. So if you're in an office and want to meet with John Doe, you simply hit a button and say (paraphrased) "Where is John Doe", and the response could resemble "John is near meeting room Alpha".

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