We are pleased to announce the latest release of Vocera Care Experience 5.3.0. This release represents a significant advancement in VCE’s usability and configurability. The new enhancements greatly improve the ability to manage work-flows and to understand the level of patient engagement.

Please contact your Vocera Client Service manager or Vocera Technical Support Team (877.678.4869) if you have questions or need additional information.

The below table summarizes the changes included in this release.

Enhancements	Description	Value Offering
Enhanced user roles and permissions	Ability to assign user’s roles based on their area of function. Following user roles are implemented: Pre-admit instructions Patient rounds Discharge instructions Post-discharge follow-ups Staff rounds Admin Patient manager BI and reports Note: A user can be assigned one or more roles.	Provides granular access control based on user’s role in the organization.
Search option on patient grid	Ability to search on a module’s patient grid by patient name or MRN without selecting a filter.	Users can quickly locate and access a patient record of interest.
Filter the patient grid by primary language	Ability to filter the patient grid by patient’s primary language. Implemented in Care Rounds and Care Calls. Primary Language field can be enabled as a column on the grid.	Users can filter the patient list to easily identify patients to contact.
Session timeout	Syncing of timeouts of modal dialog and other user interface elements with application session timeout.	Allows user’s current session to remain active when they are working on a modal dialog with actions such as typing, clicking and scrolling.
Survey questionnaire improvements	The comment box field in the survey questionnaire has increased the number of characters to 1000.	Allows users to enter descriptive information or updates.
	As an added option, Survey can be configured to support numeric answer choices from 0-10, a maximum of 11 response choices.	Allows hospitals to implement and track survey responses to align with Net Promoter Scale guideline.
	A text box is provided to enter free form text when the option “other” is selected as an answer.	Allows users to add further description when available answer choices in the drop down list don’t meet their need.
Security improvement	Implemented security measures to check for vulnerabilities.	Enhanced security
Manual patient data update	Ability to manually update a patient’s first name, last name, date of birth, and admission date fields.	Allows users to update certain fields in order to reflect most current patient information.
HL7 ADT feed enhancements	Ability to parse and store e-mail address and cell phone number from the incoming ADT feed.	Allows users to view patient’s email address and cell phone number when received through hospital’s ADT feed.
BI Improvements	For surveys, the BI charts consider and count all types of answer choices including button group, check box, and drop down types.	Improved descriptive analytics.
	Ability to filter the chart on rounding activities utilizing different time frames.	Allows users to view rounds completed by week, month or quarter to meet the specific needs.
	A new dashboard view is added to display patient census on a chart for everyday in the selected time period.	Allows users to track patient census by day for further analysis.
	New dashboards are created to view patient and staff rounding activity by individual staff members. Note: This feature considers only active staff users in the system.	Allows users to analyze rounding activity by individual staff members in order to help streamline their rounding workflows.
	A new dashboard view is available which shows analytics on patients accessing to discharge instructions during a selected time period.	Allows users to analyze patient engagement.

The table below lists the system requirements for Vocera Care Experience.

Component	Minimum Requirement
Operating System	Windows XP or higher
Web Browser	Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8.0 or higher Note: We will be ending support for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows beginning January 12, 2016 following Microsoft’s move. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer.
iOS Version	8.0 or higher
Supported iOS Devices	iPad® 2 iPad mini™ iPad with Retina display iPhone 4S or later (Shift Handoff and Discharge only) iPod Touch 5 or later (Shift Handoff and Discharge only)
PDF reader (needed for web only)	Adobe® Reader® 10.1.7 (or higher) or equivalent
Audio & Video playback (needed for web only)	Adobe® Flash® Player (latest version) or Microsoft® Silverlight® (latest version)

This section provides information about fixed product defects and limitations in the current release.

Defect Number	Description	Resolution
DE3530	Vanity URL not honored when using the secured follow-up URL.	Fixed
DE6780	The VCE application on the iPad doesn’t load after the Wi-Fi reconnects.	Fixed. A status message will be displayed to user to retry if the application fails to connect for longer than 30 seconds.
DE6240	Same color was used to display two different answer choices on a pie chart.	Fixed. New color palate is implemented across the BI module for charting functionality to avoid use of duplicate colors in the same graph.
DE6269	BI did not count surveys with no answers.	Fixed.
DE6450	Number of rounds statistic varies by dashboard view type.	Fixed. Shows consistent and correct numbers.
DE6154	Exported CSV file contains duplicate entries for the number of rounds trending chart.	Fixed.
DE6514	BI does not display complete tool tip in the Care calls’ summary by units dashboard.	Fixed