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Microsoft SQL Server:
SQL clustering is supported in
For server sizing details, refer to the
This release includes the following new features and functionality.
Alarm reasons can now be configured for each site. From the Workflow Configuration screen, you can now edit the alarm reasons defined for each of your sites.
Units can have the same bed names. Because some hospital environments use the
same bed naming convention in multiple units,
Improved
Improved HL7 support. Support is now provided for HL7 files originating from different patient monitors.
High availability now provided. Support is now provided for an active/active configuration using a NetScaler load balancer.
Callback numbers now supported. This callback option is provided along with alarm notification to improve communication between nurses and patients.
Multiple pager IDs supported in nurse call connector. The nurse call connector configuration now enables you to add multiple pagers.
Performance has been improved. Application logic has been optimized to improve alarm delivery performance.
Alarm cancellation now supported. If an alarm is cancelled, the notification is
now deleted from the user's badge, and the
Upgrading from
Configured and non-configured alarm reasons differentiated. Alarm reasons that are not configured are shown in different colors from configured alarm reasons.
The following
Added capability to reload the XML files for the templates and normalizers without having to restart the nurse call connector service. (US14195)
Implemented a ping mechanism in the nurse call connector service to detect when the TAP TCP/IP connection is dropped. The default ping timeout and ping interval is 5 seconds. (US14390)
Added support in the nurse call connector service for receiving TAP message in multiple TCP/IP segments. (US14391)
Nurse call connector improvements:
In
Security improvements have been added to
In previous versions of
This release includes the following known issues and limitations.
Whenever you change the list of supported
CWE can be configured to use SSL at installation time. After installation, a field in the database must be updated to change the SSL configuration. Contact Technical Support for details. (DE4557)
No error checking is done when entering Roles. Roles should be limited to 50 characters. (DE8070)
Bed lock functionality when changing staff assignments is not supported. (DE8120)
A unit name cannot be specified multiple times in the same site or in different sites. (DE8131)
When doing an import of Vocera Staff Assignment, units must have associated staff assignment groups to be imported. (DE8374)
The archive log flag under "Cleanup Service Setting" in the CWE admin console is not functional. Regardless of the delete log flag settings (check, uncheck), logs will be deleted; the default is 60 days. Regardless of the archive flag settings (check, uncheck), log files will not be archived. You can manually archive logs every month to preserve the logs before they are deleted. (DE8649)
Alarm enunciation mapping to modify the text of the message is not supported. This feature does not get used, as the text message is set in the normalizer. (DE8735)
There are intermittent cases where the web page does not reflect the recently updated data. Use the browser refresh to resolve the error issue. (DE9399)
Custom ringtones must be downloaded to the Vocera Badge to be played. Custom ringtones do not apply to the VCS client. (DE9476)
When in an Active-Active High Availability configuration, if all alarm flow is diverted to only one CWE server, a heartbeat email message will be sent by the second CWE server. (DE9541)
Alerts and alarms are not processed when CWE does not have access to the SQL server database. (DE9543)
When you view alarms and return to the Advanced Search, the appropriate filters data in the Advance Search is not displayed. The workaround is to click the Load button to display all data in the respective filters. (DE9624)
When the same bed name is added to different units, the bed name is repeated in Advanced Search. (DE9625)