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, 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 Vina.
For the previous versions of the release notes, refer to the Vocera Release Notes Library.
This release includes the following new features and functionality.
Features marked with an asterisk (*) require Vocera Platform 6.6.
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Patient sort order is now configurable
You can now specify whether a list of patients is to be sorted in order by
first name, last name, room number, or MRN.
Improved Staff Directory access
From the Staff Directory, you can now tap a user to display a detailed
information screen. From this screen, you can place a call, start a
conversation, or select and unselect favorites.
This release includes the following important
changes.
You must be using a supported device and operating system to be able
to run Vocera Vina.
The following device and operating system combinations are
supported:
- Zebra TC51 with Android operating system version 6.0 and
later
- Zebra TC52 with Android operating system version 8.1 and
later
- Zebra TC21 with Android operating system 10
- Zebra TC52X with Android operating system 10
- Spectralink V92 with Android operating system 10
- Spectralink V95 with Android operating system 8.1 and later
- Samsung devices with Android operating system 8.1 and later
- Google Pixel devices with Android operating system 8.1 and
later
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.
The following list contains fixes and
improvements made to Vocera Vina.
This release includes the following known issues and limitations for
versions of Vocera Vina running on Android
operating systems.
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UC-9008 If you have set your
device's Do Not Disturb setting, a notification from Vina may disappear shortly
after it appears.
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UC-10154 Due to device
limitations, the buttons on Zebra devices cannot be configured to send panic
broadcasts at the present time.