Vocera Vina Policy Items

This section describes the available Vocera Vina specific policy items available to enforce access control and secure authentication for Vocera Vina users.

Important: In addition to the Vocera Vina security policy items described in the following table, Vocera offers security policy items designed for mobile client users. To learn more about these policy items, see the Mobile Client Security Policy Items section.
Policy Items Description

PIN Authentication

Enables PIN authentication for Vocera Vina users. The Vocera Vina users can use their Vocera PIN to re-authenticate when an inactivity timeout occurs.

Users must set a PIN at login, if they haven't set a PIN, the existing PIN is expired, or it is locked.

For additional PIN policy items, see the policy items described in the PIN Authentication Policy Items section.

Vocera Vina controls the ability for clients to customize tabs

Allows clients to customize tab names.

Vocera Vina uses the default name for custom tab 1

Configures a default name for custom tab 1.

A system administrator can enable this policy item to control the default name for a custom tab. For more information on configuring default name for custom tabs, see Configuring Default Name for Custom Tabs

Vocera Vina uses the default name for custom tab 2

Configures a default name of custom tab 2.

A system administrator can enable this policy item to control the default name for a custom tab. For more information on configuring default name for custom tabs, see Configuring Default Name for Custom Tabs

Vocera Vina is enabled for debug logging

Enables debug logging for Vocera Vina clients.

Debug logging is disabled when this policy item is removed from the policy.

Vocera Vina allows using biometric unlock

Enables biometric authentication for Vocera Vina clients.

When this policy item is added, users can use the TouchID or Fingerprint ID on their Android or iOS mobile clients to access the Vocera Vina app instead of using an app PIN. This policy item is useful for Vocera Vina users who bring their own devices (BYOD).

A system administrator can look up the device inventory and confirm if the devices Is Shared or personal If the device is not shared, users for this personal device can use the biometric authentication.

Vocera Vina Disconnect Timeout

Sets a maximum amount of time (in minutes) for which the Vocera Vina application may be disconnected from the server before being automatically logged out. The Vocera Vina application uses this time to refresh the security access with the Vocera Platform server.

You can enter a value within the range of one to 10080

The default value is 5760 minutes.

Controls access to patient details

Controls access to patient details. This policy item includes two values:
  • restricted — the "restricted" access excludes patient records in roster search results and omits patient details displaying in a patient linked conversation
  • full — the "full" access permits patient records in the roster search results and includes all patient details in patient linked conversations. The "full" value is also the default value for this policy item.

Client disable staff departments

Disables or hides the display of department groups in search results or when starting a new chat session or call.

For example, if a Vocera Vina user taps on Call, Chat, Staff, or Patient Tabs, the department groups are not displayed for this user if the "client disable staff departments" serviced policy is enabled. For more information, refer to the example described Example: Hiding User Department Group

This policy item has no configurable values. Remove the policy item to disable it.

Disable Usage Analytics

Specifies whether to opt out of sending usage analytics data to the cloud. Use this policy item if your organization does not allow data collection from user devices.

This policy item has no configurable values. Remove the policy item to disable it.