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.

• 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 devices are supported:

• Apple iPhone small size device (iPhone 6 and later)
• Apple iPhone without Notch (medium size device)
• Apple iPhone with Notch (large size device)

Versions 14.0 and later of the Apple iOS operating system are supported.

Vocera Vina should be designed and coded to function on the majority of BYOD devices that use iOS 14 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 version of Vocera Vina requires Vocera Platform.

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 Apple iOS operating systems.

• UC-7287 If the user moves their system clock backward, messages are not marked as read. When the displayed time catches back up to where the time was set, the app will start working again.

• UC-8315 If someone is attempting to call you from a broadcast, the caller name on the incoming call screen is incorrectly displayed as offline.

• UC-13599 If you receive a call after you have terminated the Vina app, the context of the call is not displayed until after you answer the call.

• UC-14064 Using Vina over a VPN may affect:

  • The ability to receive calls and alarms.
  • The quality and stability of calls.

• UC-16427 If your device is using iOS 14 or later and you receive a call when your Vina app is in the background, the context of the call is not displayed.

• UC-16802 If you disconnect your headset while in a call, you may lose audio.

• UC-16840 If your device is using a iOS 13.x or 14.x (up to 14.4.x) operating system and you restart your device, you may not receive the first incoming Vina call if you do not open the app. This problem does not appear in iOS versions 14.5 and later.

• UC-17081 Under some circumstances, when you attempt to log into Vina using single sign-on, the Microsoft login screen does not appear. If this occurs, use the following workaround: on your device, open the Settings app and tap Safari, Advanced, Website Data, and Remove All Website Data.

• UC-18556 When your device is using some iOS operating systems, you are on a call, and you receive an alarm, the chirp tone that notifies you of the incoming alarm is not played. This issue has been found on devices using the iOS 13.4 operating system.

• UC-20015 Urgent broadcasts may not work properly if your device's Do Not Disturb setting is activated.