Vocera Vina is a smartphone app that optimizes patient safety by helping clinicians to make decisions in real-time.

With Vocera Vina, you can:

• See the most important communications first with ranking by priority.
• Easily triage the importance of incoming communication and form a meaningful picture of a situation quickly to inform clinical decision making.
• Find people quickly, even across a geographically dispersed organization; communicate faster and more easily.
• Allow uninterrupted focus on critical patient-care activities.
• Enable the whole care team to see the full history of calls, messages, alerts, and alarms pertaining to a patient or event, linked within a single conversational thread.
• Drive accountability and responsibility with an audit trail for messages.

For detailed documentation on Vocera Vina, refer to Vocera Platform.

For the previous versions of the release notes, refer to the Vocera Release Notes Library.

This release includes the following new features and functionality. Note that Vocera Platform version 6.3 is required to use these features.

• Hold Vocera Call For Cellular Call

  If you are in a Vocera call and receive a cellular call, you can now place the Vocera call on hold while you answer the cellular call. If you already have a Vocera call on hold, it is dropped.

• Coverage Request

  You can now request that another contact is to cover for you during a specified period of time that you are unavailable. This feature is available when the server has been configured to grant this permission.

• Template Access

  A configuration option on the server now enables you to include a Template icon on the Home screen. You can tap this icon to display your templates more quickly.

• Calling External Contacts

  An administrator can now define commonly-used phone numbers and store them in the system as contacts. When a contact has been made available, you can call it directly from your Vocera Vina app.

• Panic Call in API

  The Vocera Vina API now provides the ability to initiate a panic call.

• Groups Viewable from System Settings

  From the System Settings page, you can now tap "My Groups" to display a list of the groups of which you are a member. You can also remove yourself from groups from this page.

• EMM Support

  If you have an Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) system installed in your environment, you can use it to specify the domain name or IP address for all Vocera Vina users. When this is in place, users cannot change the domain name or IP address themselves.

• Leaving Created Alert

  If you are the originator of an Alert, you can now leave it as well as complete it. This is useful when an Alert can have multiple recipients.

• Template Recipient Selection

  When you are using a template to create a message, and you are asked to specify a recipient of the message that you create, you can now search for people or groups matching text that you specify, select an individual person as the recipient, or specify a group as the recipient.

• Join or Leave Group

  If your administrator has granted you permission, you can join a group, or you can leave a group of which you are a member.

This release includes the following important changes.

• Non-Patient is now the default left tab in the Home screen.

  In previous versions, Archive was the default left tab. You can still edit the system settings to specify Archive as the left tab if needed.

You must be using a supported device and operating system to be able to run Vocera Vina.

The following devices are supported:

• Zebra MC40-HC (FIPS and non-FIPS versions)
• Zebra TC51-HC (FIPS and non-FIPS versions)
• Zebra TC52-HC (FIPS and non-FIPS versions)
• Spectralink PIVOT (for migration from EM only)
• Spectralink Versity
• Samsung S7, S8, S9, and S10

Versions 5.X and later of the Android operating system are supported.

The following Android architectures are supported:

• armeabi-v7a

If space is not an issue, the following can be included but are not required:

• arm64-v8a
• x86

Vocera Vina should be designed and coded to function on the majority of BYOD devices that use Android 8 and later. However, these devices cannot be tested, and thus voice performance cannot be guaranteed, features function cannot be guaranteed, and use for regulated alarms on devices not on the supported list is not supported.

This release includes the following known issues and limitations for versions of Vocera Vina running on Android operating systems.

• UC-9008 If your device is using Android 9 or 10, and you have set the Restrict Notification setting in the Do Not Disturb settings list to "No visuals or sound from notifications", an urgent priority alert notification may appear only briefly on the screen before vanishing. To work around this problem, set your Restrict Notification setting to "No sounds from notifications".