| 6.6.0 Q4 2022
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Web Console |
Enhanced Voice Commands:
- Send recurring reminder
- Add to multiple groups
Customers with 30,000+ users added to a single facility have new optimizations.
Enhanced Play Messages command to provide additional context.
Minibadge Enhancements:
- Users can press DND to put the current call on hold and hear the
incoming caller’s name.
- Users who call a group will hear the name of the user that answers
the call before the audio is connected.
- Users can now press DND during an Emergency Broadcast to hear the
initiating user’s location.
PBX telephony call flows now use the SIP REFER method to release the telephony gateway ports.
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| Server Side Enhancements |
- Increased observability via Operational Tools
- High Availability improvements
- Startup and performance improvements
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| 6.5.0 Q1 2022
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Web Console |
Enhanced Voice Improvements and New Intents
- Who is in group?
- Send reminders
- Start/End Break
- End Shift
- Login
- For a full list of new voice improvements and intents, please see the
full Release Note.
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| Server Side Enhancements |
- Data Purge Redesign
- Azure Maintenance Event Support
- Dual Mode Availability
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| 6.4.0 Q3 2021
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Web Console |
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Access and view "My Patients" from Vina Web
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Changes to Groups and Group Permissions
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Coverage Request available from Web Console
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Departments (Facility) and Groups are Linked
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Enhancements to Bulk Actions
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Enhancements to Vina User Interface (UI)
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Remote Logoff via Status Monitor
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SAML Based Authentication
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Subject Field in Templates
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Vocera Operations Tools 1.1
Staff Assignment
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Multi-Bed Assignment and Careteam Visibility
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Understaffed Role Warnings
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Updates to Vocera Assignment Group Sync (AGS) Adapter Service User
Interface
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| Server Side Enhancements |
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Enhanced 911 (E-911) Location Services
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Enable or Disable User Voicemail
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Enhancements to Dynamic Extensions
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Enhanced Voice (Beta)
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Extension Dialing Updates
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Hasty Delete
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View Vocera Telephony Log Events in Audit Logs
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Vocera Environmental Services (EVS) Adapter and Voice Commands
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Vew server logs for "off network events" in Web
Console > Status >Audit Logs. .
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| Vocera Vina |
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| 6.3.4 Q2 2021
|
Web Console |
- Database cluster status displays as "Active" and
"Standby".
- Enhancements to Bulk Import Feature
- Enhacements to Vocera Extension Dialing Search
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| 6.3.3 Q1 2021
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Vocera Platform Clustering |
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| 6.3.2 Q3 2020
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Vocera Platform - XMPP Adapter Service |
- Performance improvements related to XMPP Adapter Service
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| 6.3.1 Q3 2020
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Vocera Platform Component |
- Improvements to High Availability and Clustering features.
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| 6.3.0 Q3 2020
|
Web Console |
- Add Custom Presence Status Messages
- Access Archived Vina Conversations in Vina Web
- Add custom fields for Users, Groups, and Devices
- Broadcasts and Urgent Broadcasts supported in Vina Web and Staff
Assignment Web Console
- Calling Party Number field available for Shared Telephony
- Contacts are searchable in Vina
- Coverage Request
- Enhancements to Bulk Actions
- Enhancement to Template Recipient Option
- Hide the display of a forwarded number
- Messaging section renamed to "Vina" in Web Console User Interface
- New Template button in Vina
- Patient Communication Coverage Forwarding
- Self-Add to Groups in Vina
- Set a domain name or IP address for Vocera Vina clients using EMM
- View panic caller's location
- Vocera Web Calling available for Vina Web and Staff Assignment Web
Console
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| Server Side Enhancements |
- Dialing Vocera Extension searches Vocera Phone fields on Users or
Groups before routing the call to a connected PBX
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| 6.2.1 Q2 2020
|
Web Console |
- Place direct calls from Vocera devices.
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6.2.0
Q1 2020
|
Web Console |
- Patient context is now available in Vina Web.
- Alerts are now supported in the Vina Web
- Patient data display is now restricted.
- Hide user's home departments.
- Groups can now display member groups (nested groups).
- Upload profile photo to your My Profile page.
- Notes field for Groups and Users.
- Ability to clone Templates.
- Track feature usage analytics.
- Upload log files to the server from theVina Web.
- Create custom preset options for Presence status.
- Group members can now add and remove themselves from a group.
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| Voice Experience |
- Missed calls are not shown when All or Offline condition is selected to
forward a call.
- By default, the Favor Frequently Called option is disabled for users and
departments.
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| 6.1.0 Q4 2019
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Web Console |
- The Vocera Platform provides a minimal IT footprint by running the voice service, workflow
engine, database, and telephony gateway on the same machine.
- The Vocera Platform has now extended its support to the full range of Vocera clients: the
touch-screen enabled Smartbadge, the voice-controlled Badge, and the
Vocera Vina mobile application.
- Support for newly introduced features in the Vocera Vina mobile
application.
- Support for Vocera SIP Telephony Gateway running directly on the Vocera Platform server.
- Integration with the Vocera Analytics product: Vocera Analytics provides
visibility to traffic passing through the Vocera Platform.
- First release of the following browser-based applications:
- Vina Web
- Vocera Platform Staff Assignment
- Vocera Platform My Profile
- Vocera Platform My Workflow
- Tiered administration permissions, enabling system administrators to
delegate specific responsibilities to other users.
- Ability to disable a user account through the
- The Device Monitor now provides status information for all logged-in
devices.
- Message templates for the Vina Web.
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| Voice Experience |
- When Announce Caller's Name After Tone is enabled
in the Genie Settings section of User
Defaults in the Vocera Platform Web Console, the Genie
announces the caller's name, or if no name is available, the phone
number.
- When a message is sent to a group, the Genie announces the group name
and the sender of the message.
- Initiate or schedule a Code Lavender® event and send reminders for
it.
- Automatically add doctor prefix to alternate spoken names using the new
Doctor Prefix field under Speech
Recognition tab.
- A facility-level setting to control the user of Easter Eggs:
Administrators can enable or disable the ability to use Easter Eggs
commands for each facility.
- Intelligent backoff strategies for Call, Broadcast, Add me to group, and
Record Message commands.
- Use the Play Mindfulness command to take a
mindfulness break with a guided meditation of 30 seconds, one minute, or
five minutes.
- Automatic prompting for users to record names that are frequently
spelled.
- Genie prompts to Play Unread Messages when a user logs out. This
reminder is useful because messages are often not played during a busy
day, and then forgotten.
- The ability to schedule reminders for other users and groups, and the
ability to schedule reminders for yourself.
- Updated prompts when transferring a login from a device to the mobile
application.
- Optional voice PIN authentication to play messages: Badge users can
define a Voice PIN (Personal Identification Number) that must be spoken
before playing messages.
- First release of the Vocera Platform Staff Assignment application.
- Tiered administration permissions, enabling system administrators to
delegate specific responsibilities to other users.
- Ability to disable a user account through the Vocera Platform Web Console.
- The Device Monitor provides status information
for all logged-in devices.
- Message templates for the Vocera Platform messaging Console to send
emergency messages or other messages quickly.
- Browser-based mini-applications available to end users who have the
appropriate permissions: My Profile and
My Workflow.
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| 6.0.0 Q1 2019
|
Web Console |
- Voice, Messaging, and Integrations provided by a single Vocera
Platform.
- Support for Vocera devices and mobile Vocera Vina client.
- Backwards compatibility with Engage Mobile and third-party
handsets.
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| Voice Experience |
- New Vocera Platform Web Console providing centralized administration for all Vocera Platform components.
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