PowerChart Touch vs Vocera Edge Comms

PowerChart Touch for iPad® and iPhone® supports fast, easy, and smart workflows. PowerChart Touch allows a provider to complete both ambulatory and inpatient workflows, including: • Review their schedule, patient list, and patient charts • Access the Physician Handoff, a standardized approach to transfer care of a patient between providers • Review patient's demographic information • Take patient's photo • Review, create, and sign notes • Review, add, and modify allergies, problems & histories • Review clinical results, radiology reports, and pathology reports • Review all orders including medication orders • Ability to place orders • Prescribe and refill medications with formulary support, electronic prescribing and printing • Clinical checking for safe prescription writing including drug-drug and drug-allergy checking • Dictate with Nuance voice recognition PowerChart Touch also provides secure access for providers needing access to the EHR outside of the facility's walls. IMPORTANT: PowerChart Touch requires your organization to have a valid license and be on release 2012.01 or higher. If you are unsure about the availability of PowerChart Touch at your organization, please contact your IT department or your Cerner representative.

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