Practice Unite ® vs Vocera Edge Comms

Practice Unite®, now part of Uniphy Health, brings secure, HIPAA-compliant clinical communications and collaboration features to your healthcare system. This configurable application helps your organization: * Communicate and collaborate securely and effectively. * Securely share PHI with colleagues. * Find and communicate with colleagues by secure text or by phone. * Share and receive clinical data where and when it is needed. Available features include: * Secure Messaging: Search for colleagues by name, specialty and location. Send encrypted texts to one or more users or groups. Coordinate care via patient-centric care team messaging. Includes receipt confirmation. * Patient-centric Collaboration: Securely create and share patient notes among physicians, nurses and other clinicians. * Secure Photo Sharing: Save and share encrypted images. * Voice Calling: Call colleagues directly by cell, office number or VOIP (if provided by your organization). * Consults: Send consults directly from patient’s EHR to physicians’ mobile devices. * Clinical Alerts: Receive critical/abnormal lab results and other important clinical information directly from EHR and other clinical systems. Escalate as needed. * On-Call Schedule Management: Identify and communicate with the on-call physician or team quickly, from any mobile device. * Procedures: Schedule procedures and have results delivered to ordering physician’s mobile device. * Hospital System Directory: Access an up-to-date system-wide directory of phone numbers searchable by employee name or phone location. * Search: Find physicians based on name, specialty, area of practice, insurance participation, location and other criteria. * Events: Send invitations and obtain RSVP lists for hospital and departmental events. * News: Read important news and view images and videos from your organization. * Feedback: Easily get user feedback through short surveys. * Third-party app integration: Use Practice Unite as a “single pane of glass” to incorporate functionality from apps such as Charge Capture and streamline the user experience.

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