Welcome to the
This section summarizes the new features in the recent releases of
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A new scheduled report is provided for the Care Rounds module, titled Care Rounds - All Responses By Round. (VCE-195)
This new report uses the existing date ranges, includes rounds that have been saved and submitted, displays all answerable questions contained in the surveys (answered or not), and includes all comments contained in the surveys (completed or not).
The existing All Responses by Round report in the Staff Rounds module has been enhanced:
Security enhancements and multifactor authorization (MFA) are implemented in this release. (VCE-850)
Multifactor authorization (MFA) features include:
The Care Rounds module now has a filter button to access the patient sort dialog. (VCE-1200)
Clicking on the new icon opens a dialog where you can specify which data is visible in the grid and by what data element the grid will be sorted.
In the Care Rounds dashboard, the Round Details page has been updated. (VCE-1140)
Answers provided to the question pertaining to the reason a round could not be performed will appear in the Question Class graph on the Care Rounds – Round Details dashboard in Business Intelligence.
The 6 week option has been removed from all Business Intelligence dashboards and scheduled reports. (VCE-1118)
All dashboards now use "Last 7 Days" as the Date Selection default, with the exception of the Sentiment Analysis module which defaults to "This Week".
The
All
In Business Intelligence, the icons for each module dashboard
are now consistent with the icons seen on the main
Additional sort options for Care Rounds Patients grid. (VCE-973)
In the Care Rounds Patients grid, "Past Rounds" and "Status" have been added as "Sort By" options. When either is selected, a chevron will appear next to the designated column to indicate sorting is occurring in either ascending or descending order.
Round option inaccessible for patients marked with "Do Not Round" status. (VCE-983)
If a patient has been marked with a "Do Not Round" status, the round option is greyed out and becomes inaccessible.
Six Weeks report range no longer supported. (VCE-1007)
We will no longer be supporting subscription reports configured using a Six Weeks date range. The Six Weeks option will be completely removed in a future release.
Report Subscription/BI consistency. (VCE-1061/VCE-1102)
Location sorting based on numeric value. (VCE-1090)
When sorting by "Location", rooms containing only a number will be sorted in numeric order. Rooms containing letters will be sorted alphabetically and then numerically.
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The new Sentiment Analysis feature leverages artificial intelligence to identify and categorize opinions expressed in comments, determining whether the patient or staff's attitude toward particular areas of their experience is positive, negative, neutral or mixed. (VCE-425)
Sentiment Analysis is implemented for comments in the Care Rounds module only; list is available as a BI dashboard and in a PDF report subscription.
The Good to Go module has been renamed to Care Inform and repositioned as a patient/family communication solution. It provides a new capability for sharing text communications, and it is also accessible from Vocera Collaboration Suite (VCS) version 3.5, scheduled for release later in 2019. (VCE-427)
The Care Rounds module provides a new scheduled report, Completed by Rounder, that displays the number of rounds completed by user and the percentage of rounds completed by unit. (VCE-619)
The Care Rounds module has improved capabilities in the user interface: (VCE-428)
Vocera Care Experience 6.0.0 features improved processing and performance, with emphasis on the following features and capabilities:
The Unit Usage Push report now excludes units that do not have Care Rounds access. (VCE-629)
This change makes the values displayed by the Unit Usage Push report consistent with values displayed by the Business Intelligence module.
The Census Push report now excludes units that do not have Care Rounds access. (VCE-630)
This change makes the values displayed by the Census Push report consistent with values displayed by the Business Intelligence module.
All graphs in the Census Analytics Dashboard in the Business Intelligence module now correctly reference "Census" instead of the incorrect "7 am Census". (VCE-480)
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Component | Minimum Requirement |
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Operating System | Windows 7 or later |
Web Browser |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Note: Microsoft Edge is not supported at this time.
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iOS Version |
iOS 11, 12, and 13 |
Supported iOS Devices |
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PDF reader (needed for web only) | Adobe Reader DC 2015 or later (or equivalent) |
This section provides information about fixes and improvements made to the
This section provides information about fixed product defects and limitations in the current release.
In Business Intelligence, the Care Rounds dashboard has been updated to remove all references to '7 a.m.' related to census from tooltips and CSV exports. (VCE-1077)
In an earlier VCE release, references to '7 a.m.' related to census in the Census Analytics dashboard were removed. In this release, tool tip references '# of Rounds/Daily 7am Census' have been changed to '# of Rounds/Daily Census', and CSV references '# of Rounded Patients/Daily 7am Census' have been changed to '# of Rounded Patients/Daily Census' to complete this feature update.
In the Care Rounds module, survey questions which contain a quotation mark will now be included in the Sentiment Analysis scheduled report. (VCE-1234)
In the Care Calls module, the Discharge Date column sort is now maintained. (VCE-1195)
Now after a user sorts the grid by discharge date, selects a patient to complete a care call, and later returns to the grid, the Care Calls column display remains sorted.
In the Care Rounds module, the 'Completed' and 'Remaining' round counts in the sub-navigation panel now perform as expected. (VCE-1311)
After 8pm EST the 'Completed' and 'Remaining' round counts were resetting to (0), regardless of the customer's local time. This issue no longer occurs.
This section provides information about fixed product defects and limitations in the current release.
Loading symbol added to patient details page. (VCE-1131)
This will help prevent creating rounds on the wrong patient due to the page updating.
Comments section of the Details graph appears correctly. (VCE-1139)
The Comments section of the Details graph located on the Care Rounds - Follow-up Details Dashboard in Business Intelligence appears correctly.
There are no known issues in this release.