Welcome to the latest release of Vocera Secure Texting (VST)! The VST solution extends the power of the Vocera Communications System to physicians and care teams that are located outside the hospital. VST balances security and convenience by providing a secure, easy to use, HIPAA-compliant alternative to SMS as well as basic voice capabilities to enhance communication and collaboration. The solution integrates seamlessly with the Vocera platform, providing texting and voice capabilities across Vocera end points.
The Vocera Secure Texting solution provides the following features:
If you are logged into one of the clients or the Administration Console, you can find documentation for this version of VST at the following locations:
Product Component | Where to Get Help |
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Within the Administration Console | Choose Help > User Guide |
Within the Web Client | Choose Help |
Within the Handheld Client | Choose More > Support > User Guide |
You can also access the VST documentation directly from a web browser without being logged in:
For additional product information, see also:
This section summarizes the new features in this release.
Build 190 is available to customers on 6 July 2017; it is a maintenance release that does not introduce any new features.
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Most of the
Support for badge users who desire messaging capabilities (linked user profiles)
Link the profiles of
Ability to receive terminated notifications from
If the total number of individual users (the number of members in any groups plus the number of individual recipients) exceeds 50 individuals, the message is terminated; that is, recipients will receive the message, but they will be unable to respond.
Support for
Ability for
Attachment types are now consistently limited to images for all device users, and an attachment with an accompanying text is now sent as two messages.
Create or edit a subject for a text message
A subject allows VST to sort messages to or from the same people into different conversations. For example, if you are exchanging messages with the same user about both a consultation and also on-call support, using a different subject for the two groups of messages allows everyone to view the threads as independent conversations.
Add new recipients after a text conversation has already started
You can now add recipients to a conversation at any time. For example, if you are using text messages to discuss a patient with one colleague, you can easily add another colleague to the conversation to get an additional opinion.
Reply to conversation recipients who are not contacts in your Directory list (anonymous users)
In some situations, you may receive a message sent to both you and also a person who is not one of your contacts. This situation occurs when the sender of the message has a contact who is not in your own contact list and includes that person as a recipient of the message. You may reply to all users in this situation, even though you may not initiate new messages to users who are not in your own contact list.
Reply to
Note changes to message priority
All
Customize notification tones and vibration duration based on message priority
By default, all clients indicate any high priority message (or an urgent message from the
Delete a conversation
You can now delete only a conversation instead of individual messages.
Add a group to your favorites list
Earlier releases allowed you to add only users to the favorites list.
Note changes to message length
The message body now supports 3000 characters on all clients.
Email and SMS message recipients now have unlimited replies to a message
Earlier releases allowed you to send only a single response.
The message summary screen now displays the organization of the sender
The organization was not displayed in previous releases.
Changes to attachments
A message with an attachment is now sent as two successive messages, and attachment types are limited to images (no PDFs).
New system messages
A system message is now sent to all affected message recipients in the following situations:
The
The following list contains fixes and improvements made to the Vocera Secure Texting iPhone client.
DE13639 - If a user is composing a message to one user when a message arrives from a second user, the composed message is delivered to the second user.
This situation no longer occurs.
DE8174 - In some situations, a scheduled message is delivered with a normal message prior to the scheduled time.
This situation no longer occurs.
VSTMC-4229 - When a VST user calls an office phone number, the caller's cell phone number is displayed to the recipient.