Welcome to the Vocera Care Experience solution! VCE makes it easy to facilitate effective communication and engagement with patients across the continuum of care; it helps improve care quality, patient safety, and patient perception, as well as staff engagement.

VCE is a comprehensive suite of software solutions including Pre-Arrival, Rounds, Care Inform (formerly called Good to Go^®), and Care Calls. The Business Intelligence solution provides information that can help reveal gaps and prioritize where improvements are needed to elevate patient satisfaction and reinforce treatment goals.

For detailed documentation about using Vocera Care Experience, refer to the VCE Rounding User Guide on the Vocera Documentation Portal.

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

What's New

This section summarizes the new features in the recent releases of Vocera Care Experience.

What's New in VCE 6.9.3

The Vocera Care Experience 6.9.3 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

This is a bug release and has no new features.

What's New in VCE 6.9.2

The Vocera Care Experience 6.9.2 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

This is a bug release and has no new features.

What's New in VCE 6.9.1

The Vocera Care Experience 6.9.1 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

This is a bug release and has no new features.

What's New in VCE 6.9.0

The Vocera Care Experience 6.9.0 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

We have updated the Care Rounds Question Class Scheduled Report to match the BI Dashboard. Specifically, we have excluded any "Not Answered" questions from the overall calculations. (VCE-1897)
We are pleased to announce a product enhancement for users rounding with a smartphone. A new Round button appears on the bottom left of the screen. When selected, this button will open a log which summarizes the rounds completed and admission/discharge/transfer events for that patient.. (VCE-1886)

What's New in VCE 6.8.3

The Vocera Care Experience 6.8.3 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

This is a hot fix and has no new features.

What's New in VCE 6.8.1

The Vocera Care Experience 6.8.1 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

This is a hot fix and has no new features.

What's New in VCE 6.8.0

The Vocera Care Experience 6.8.0 solution provides the new features and optimizations described in this section.

New Features in Vocera Care Experience

We are excited to announce the new Staff Rounds report to match the existing Care Rounds Unit Usage report. Staff Rounds is commonly used for gathering medical device or other data and customers are asking for a report to track this data. (VCE-1870)
We are pleased to announce that the Expected Discharge Date has been added to the care rounds grid and the patient details on the web. (VCE-10)

Minimum Requirements

The Vocera Care Experience application supports the following third-party components:

Device Name	Operating System	Internet Browser
iPad® 5 or later iPad Mini™ 2 or later iPad Air iPad Pro iPhone 6 or later	iOS 14, 15, 16, 17	Latest released version of: Apple Safari Google Chrome
Desktop Computer	Windows 7 or later	Latest released version of: Microsoft Internet Explorer Note: Microsoft Edge is not supported at this time. Google Chrome Apple Safari
Android	Android 11	Latest released version of: Microsoft Internet Explorer Note: Microsoft Edge is not supported at this time. Google Chrome Apple Safari
PDF reader (needed for web only)		Adobe Reader DC 2015 or later (or equivalent)

What's Fixed

This section provides information about fixes and improvements made to the Vocera Care Experience solution.