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.

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)
• Spectralink PIVOT 8744, SC:8744, and Versity
• Samsung S7 and S8

Versions 5.X to 10.X 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 5 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 new features and functionality.

• Two-step calling is now available.

  You can now call a person by tapping that person's profile picture or initials and tapping the call icon that appears. This makes it easier for you to call someone quickly.

• View alert details before accepting or declining the alert.

  When you receive an alert, you can now tap View to examine the alert details before you decide whether to accept or decline it. You can also choose to respond to alert notifications at a later time.

• Vocera Genie screen now includes Cancel button.

  This makes it easier for you to decide that you no longer want to place a call.

• After placing a call with a patient context, a conversation is now created with that context.

  This enables you to easily follow up on a patient-related call if necessary.

• Alerts can now be accepted by multiple users.

  A configuration option on the server now enables multiple users to accept the same alert. This is useful if an emergency situation requires several people to respond.

• Patient view can be restricted.

  A configuration option on the server now ensures that users that belong to specified groups cannot view patient data, but can only view patient locations. This ensures that sensitive patient information cannot be viewed by people who are not authorized to see it.

• The user department can now be hidden.

  A configuration option on the server now ensures that when a user starts a new chat or call, or manages favorites, the user's department is not displayed on the screen.

• Groups can now contain subgroups.

  When you tap a group name to display its members, you may see one or more subgroups. Tap a subgroup name to display the members of that subgroup.

• Tracking feature usage analytics.

  Vocera Vina can now send feature usage analytics data to the cloud. System administrators can disable usage analytics if this feature is not desired.

  Note: Feature usage analytics doesn't track any personal data.

This release includes the following fixes:

• SIV-3686 - Call log now correct if person called neither accepts or declines the call.

  If a user calls another user, and the called person neither accepts or declines the call, the call log now no longer incorrectly indicates that the call was declined.

• UC-8180 - Archived 1-1 conversations now fully loaded when viewed.

  If you have archived a 1-1 conversation with a user, you do not have that user marked as a favorite, and you have no other message history with that user, the user's avatar and title now appear when the conversation is loaded from the archive, and the other user's name now appears in search results.

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

• UC-9008 - Notifications for urgent priority alerts may appear only briefly (Android 9 and 10).

  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".