The latest Gartner Real-Time Health System Hype Cycle recognizes Vocera, now part of Stryker, as a Sample Vendor in two categories related to healthcare communication: Care Team Collaboration, and Clinical Communication and Collaboration. According to Gartner, “This Hype Cycle includes technologies pivotal to the real-time health system vision. It is an essential reference for CIOs when assessing the value and impact of technologies that digitally transform the healthcare organization into a collaborative, smart, next-generation health system.”

Use the Gartner Hype Cycle to help plan for transformation

We believe Vocera solutions align well to Gartner guidance. Our solutions help ease the burden for care teams while helping them to improve patient safety and outcomes by:

• Delivering a mobile healthcare communication and workflow platform that can integrate with your hospital’s electronic health record and other clinical and operational systems.
• Enabling clinicians to receive filtered, prioritized, intelligently routed alarm and event notifications with escalation paths on their device of choice.
• Including patient, event, and care team context with communications and notifications.
• Providing nurses with more control over communication with patients and families.
• Streamlining healthcare communication and information sharing for all the roles involved in patient care inside and outside the hospital – not just those with access to the electronic health record.
• Empower nurses to manage the patient and family experience.

All capabilities are based on your facility’s protocols and technology configuration.

Nurses are Innovators

Professional nursing holds a unique place in the world's healthcare infrastructure. Nurses are the largest work group in the healthcare system and, as we have seen over the past two and a half years, their impact on the safety and wellbeing of communities, nations, and the world is immeasurable.

Nurse Leaders Must Unleash the Power of Nurse Innovation

How do we change the environment nurses work in to support their resilience? One way we do it is by responding to nurses' calls to innovate how we deliver care. That's the focus of the CNO Perspective report on nurse-led innovation. This report lays out six ways to address nurses' call for innovation and improving the work environment:

• Simplify and unify communication workflow
• Connect mobile care teams
• Transform the hospital's systems into nurse extenders
• Innovate care models
• Identify tasks to offload from the nurse
• Empower nurses to manage the patient and family experience