App Profile: Vocera Edge Comms

Enhance care team mobility and simplify work at the point of care through effective, reliable clinical workflows and communication with Vocera Edge, a cloud-based communication solution for smartphones. Clinicians can document back to the EHR while receiving filtered, prioritized alarm and task notifications. Physicians can easily locate and communicate with the nurse and team members supporting their patients, saving time with each connection. The solution simplifies clinical communication and collaboration deployment and system administration by reducing the overhead required to scale. Get more value from your EHR and bring the whole care team together, centered around the patient.


Save time by unifying the most common EHR documentation workflows and urgent, event-based communication from a single smartphone app, including:


Nurse Rounding: capture rounding surveys at the bedside


Clinical Documentation: view, collect, and document high-frequency, low-duration patient-centric information such as bedside hand-off, shift report, vital signs, I/O, EWS. assessments, screenings, and more


Positive Patient Identification (PPID) workflows:


Medication Administration: barcode medication administration and real time documentation through intuitive workflows designed with clinical depth to ensure patient safety and adherence to the medication rights of the patient


Specimen Collection: enforce patient identification and lab order verification, document in real time, and optimize care team workflows to increase safety, accuracy, and efficiency of lab order labeling, processing, and fulfillment


Infant Care Tracking: ensure accurate mother and baby matching, safety of breast milk feedings, and accuracy of breast milk labeling


Communications: facilitate care team collaboration through communications including messaging, SMS, voice, and video with clinical context


Facilitating patient assignment, alert management, and care delivery planning


Vocera Edge enables HIPAA compliance and communicates directly to your existing HIS infrastructure via secured wireless networks.


To use the Edge application, your healthcare facility simply needs to license Vocera Edge. Edge includes an authorized cloud service that is integrated with your hospital communications and clinical systems.


Learn more at https://www.vocera.com/products/vocera-edge