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 Platform.

For the previous versions of the release notes, refer to the Vocera Release Notes Library.

This release includes the following new features and functionality.

• Third-party Dialer Options Available*

  The Vocera Vina app can be optionally configured to use a third-party dialing option instead of using the Vocera Genie. The app can also be configured to disable calling and enable messages only.

• Expanded Phone Extension Capabilities

  You can supply a phone number or extension for your device. This number can be between 2 and 15 digits long.

• New and Read Conversations

  On your Home screen, conversations are organized into New and Read sections. This enables you to view unread conversations more easily. These conversation sections can be expanded or hidden. When hidden, the number of conversations in the section is displayed.

• New Messages Indicated in Conversations

  If you return to a conversation that you have left, new messages that have appeared while you were away are placed below a New banner in the chat log. This enables you to quickly catch up on your conversation.

• Copy and Paste Supported

  You can now copy message text from a conversation to your device clipboard. You can then paste it into another app on your device. When sending a message, you can paste text from the clipboard into the message field.

• Coverage Request Ending Notification

  When a coverage request period is about to expire, both the person doing the covering and the person being covered are now sent a notification.

• Message Details in Conversations

  For each message in a conversation, you can now view details of who sent and received the message.

• Callback From Voicemail Message

  If a voicemail message is the last message that has been sent to you in a conversation, you can now tap the conversation link in the Home screen to call the person that left you the voicemail.

• Favorites List Now Expandable

  In the New Chat or New Call screen, the list of favorites can now be expanded or hidden.

• Messaging-Only Option

  You can now configure Vina to provide messaging only. In this configuration, the calling capability is disabled.

• Recent Archive Time Period Now Explicit

  The amount of time that archived conversations are considered recent is now explicitly specified. This time period is normally 48 hours but can be configured.

• Login Not Required When App Terminated

  If you terminate Vina and restart it, the app no longer times out on the Login screen. The Home screen now appears, and a "Loading" message is displayed until the app can re-establish a server connection. You now do not need to log in again.

This release includes the following important changes.

• Call icon color changes

  The color of the call icon that is displayed in a conversation or when you tap on a profile picture or initials is now one of the following:

  • Red: all participants in the conversation are online but unavailable except for urgent calls
  • Green: all other conditions

  In previous releases, the call icon was blue for multi-person conversations and gray when the intended recipient was offline.

You must be using a supported device and operating system to be able to run Vocera Vina.

The following devices are supported:

• Apple iPhones model 6S and later
• Apple iPhones model SE

Versions 12.0 to 14.3 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 11 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 fixes:

• UC-9836 If you compose message text to send in a conversation but first send a photo, the message text is no longer lost.

• UC-11470 When a panic call is sent to a Vina app that has been killed, the panic call no longer fails.

• UC-12043 On some devices and some Apple iOS operating systems, if you are required to enter a PIN because the specified time period has elapsed, the device keyboard now appears, and you are not logged out of Vina when you tap the PIN text box.

• UC-13629 When you are starting a call or chat, and you tap a group name to display a list of available options, the Call icon is now correctly displayed with a green background.

• UC-14590 When you specify a user, group, or phone number to which your calls are to be forwarded, the presence screen now displays this correctly.

• UC-14761 On devices that are using iOS version 14 or later, the popups that request local network access do now appear on installation.

• UC-15137 Devices without Wi-Fi that have a null IP address now cause a more meaningful error message to be displayed in the Vocera Platform status monitor.

• UC-15145 If you have terminated your Vina app and then receive a notification, the app no longer crashes when you tap the notification.

• UC-15741 If your Wi-Fi connection is disconnected while you are being logged in, the login process now works properly when your connection is restored.

• UC-15746 Off-premises cellular calls were failing due to an error in the call request sent from the server. This has now been fixed.

• UC-16091 When Vina is in the background and you receive an alert that you have not responded to, and the server sends the alert notification again, the re-sent notification is now properly displayed.

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-14128 When you log into Vina, you may see the message "Unable to register for remote notification". This is due to an issue in the Apple iOS operating system. If you see this message, either restart your phone or turn your Wi-Fi off and on.

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

• UC-17027 If you tap the My Number field to edit it, the value of the number is saved on the device even if not changed. This means that the number appears in the My Number field if another user logs into the same device.