What You Should Know:
- MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today.
- The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know:
Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence
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Cleveland Clinic London Taps Vocera to Build Clinical Communications Platform
- Cleveland Clinic London will use the Vocera Platform to standardize care team communication across the hospital when it opens in 2021.- The Vocera Platform integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including EHRs, physiologic monitors, ventilators and more.- Cleveland Clinic London is planning a two-way integration with Epic, the hospital’s EHR system. Additional integrations with a real-time location system and nurse call solution also are planned. Cleveland Clinic
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Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety
- Vocera Vina smartphone app launches to help improve clinical communications and enhance patient safety by reducing the clerical burdens that lead to burnout.
- The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital.
- Drawing from the hospital EHR, this the vendor-agnostic platform works alongside all other Vocera
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Imprivata, Vocera Integrate for Secure and Convenient Clinical Mobile Device Authentication
Healthcare IT security company Imprivata and Vocera Communications, a provider of clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced an integration partnership to help healthcare organizations unlock the full potential of mobility in healthcare. Combining Imprivata Mobile Device Access with Vocera Collaboration Suite, the partnership enables fast, familiar authentication into shared clinical mobile devices and the Vocera smartphone app, eliminating the burden of manual logins for
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EHR Documentation Named Key Driver of Cognitive Overload for Clinicians
A recent study finds 77% of clinicians overwhelmingly identified documenting and charting in the EHR as a source of cognitive overload. When you were a student cramming for a test, remember that feeling of your brain just being unable to gather more information? You probably didn’t perform at your best. Imagine that stress every day. That’s the life of today’s clinicians, who are tasked with not only caring for multiple patients but also with burdensome clerical work from EHRs and other hospital
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2019 MedTech Breakthrough Award Category Winners Announced
MedTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global digital health and medical technology market has unveiled the results of its 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program, showcasing technologies and companies that drive innovation and exemplify the best in medical and health-related technology solutions across the globe.MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program OverviewThe MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is the
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Study: Clinicians Feel More Comfortable Sharing Patient Information through Secure Communication
Clinicians feel more comfortable sharing patient information using a secure communication tool, according to findings from a secure mobile communication study conducted by Island Health in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The research evaluated Vocera Collaboration Suite across acute care and community practice settings on Vancouver Island. The study, which included feedback from more than 100 clinicians, evaluated the mobile application to understand the impact of secure texting on care
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Vocera Launches Wearable Smartbadge to Redefine Healthcare Communication
Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of clinical communication and workflow solutions has announced the launch of a new category of wearable communication devices that enables clinician agility and accelerates patient care. The Vocera Smartbadge combines smartphone usability with the hands-free freedom of the Vocera Badge to redefine healthcare communication.Based on two decades of customer feedback, the Smartbadge carves out a new category of wearable mobile communication devices and
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St Vincent’s Health Australia Deploys Vocera for Clinical Alerts & Communication
St Vincent’s Health Australia has officially deployed Vocera solutions for communication and clinical alerts across all its aged care facilities. St Vincent’s Health Australia is one of many organizations in the country using Vocera technology to improve care team communication, patient and resident experience, and operational efficiency. In 2017, Vocera added 35 aged care facilities in Australia to its client roster.Additionally, Vocera is steadily increasing deployments in public and private
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