The Vocera Platform Commentary
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Paul Hess
Research Director
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
At this point in time, Stryker has continued to respond to the needs of patient care. I'm just...
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Loyalty
The Vocera Platform is at the cutting edge of hands-free capability for clinicians. Many...
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Product
I think the system could have a couple of little updates that would make it a little easier to use....
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Relationship
Stryker has been very responsive to our service call tickets. They will answer them very quickly....
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Operations
Stryker has done a pretty good job of keeping their promises. Stryker is actually really good about...
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Product
Our last upgrade introduced an issue in the system, and we are trying to remedy that. It is part of...
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Relationship
We don't take a ton of new things that Stryker offers for Vocera Edge because we don't have a ton of...
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Loyalty
Right now, Vocera Edge is part of our long-term plans. At one point, we considered moving to another...
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Product
Vocera Edge is a great product. It works very well, and it is very easy to use.
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Operations
I did most of the training for Vocera Edge. We had Stryker's canned training, but it was really old,...
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Product
Stryker could improve voice recognition. The Vocera Platform sometimes has problems with users who...
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Loyalty, Product
Integration is a little harder because we have been trying to get integrated since we originally...
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Relationship, Operations
Stryker is good to work with. We have a dedicated person for The Vocera Platform who comes on-site....
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Product
The biggest benefit of The Vocera Platform is the ease of being able to reach anyone within the...
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Product
Some of Stryker’s administration tools and features could be upgraded. More ease of use for creating...
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Relationship, Product
We would like to have more visibility about what security vulnerabilities have come up due to...
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Product
The biggest strengths of The Vocera Platform are the ease of use and the hands-free communication...
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Value
Stryker isn’t bad with charges when it comes to the maintenance and the day-to-day of The Vocera Platform....
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Value
The project side is where Stryker can nickel and dime organizations, like if they are involving...
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Loyalty, Value
In the future, our organization is going to put The Vocera Platform under a microscope and ask if...
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Loyalty
The system's performance has been lackluster. Our organization is in the process of transitioning to...
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Relationship
Stryker's support team has been great; they are very responsive. The Vocera Platform has been great...
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Product
The version we implemented was newer, and we identified additional areas to improve the design. We...
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Relationship
Stryker just keeps getting less proactive and keeps having less follow-up. Stryker is very...
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Relationship, Value
I don't know what is out there or whether anything is better. Maybe Vocera Edge is actually the...
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Relationship, Product
The reliability with upgrades for Vocera Edge has gone down a lot. I see a lot of outages lately....
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Product
We have to click several selections to get to what we actually need on every single screen in Vocera...
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Relationship
I have not really seen much new technology for Vocera Edge. And if Stryker teases that something is...
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Relationship
For a fee, Stryker is willing to work with us and try to brainstorm to get the interoperability...
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Value
Stryker does kind of nickel-and-dime us for changes and everything. When we do any projects or...
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Product, Value
The Vocera Platform is a robust system. It is able to manage communication at different sites. The...
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Culture
With our contract, we don't get any extra charges. Our contract covers the cost of an on-site...
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Loyalty, Product
The Vocera Platform is currently only validated on VMware, but I would like to see it be validated...
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Operations
What I would tell any peer about The Vocera Platform is that for any technology, customers have to...
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Value
We are pretty stable with The Vocera Platform. Stryker does a good job of partnering with us to...
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Relationship
We receive generic emails from Stryker, but emails as a general blob can get lost in the mass...
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Product
The Vocera Platform is pretty easy to use, and I haven't had any issues with it. It is a useful...
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Product
There were concerns with HIPAA compliance. The system's reliance on speakerphone-style communication...
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Product
One of the biggest positives from our clinical staff is the hands-free capability. If our staff...
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Operations
I am not aware of any ongoing training from the vendor.
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Product
The primary reason we would not buy The Vocera Platform again is the lack of integration...
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Relationship
I have been told that the staff members who support the platform are pretty good. They usually...
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Product
Vocera Edge is difficult to manage, and the functionality doesn't serve the full extent of our needs....
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Product
The analytics platform leaves a lot to be desired in terms of ease of use, visibility of data around...
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Operations
There is no training for Vocera Edge. We are on the latest version, which wasn't much of a change.
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Relationship
Stryker’s people are all very easy to work with and responsive, and they want to get the job done....
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Stryker has had a lot of technical difficulties. We are integrating functionality from another...
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Product
The Vocera Platform's UI could always be better, and the vendor could work with the vendors on the...
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Product
With The Vocera Platform, I can leverage multiple data points into one application on one device and...
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Relationship, Product
A lot of people still have a hard time with The Vocera Platform’s voice feature, especially people...
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Value
Stryker definitely does not avoid charging for every little thing. There was an OIT mandate that we...
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Relationship
I haven't had to use Stryker’s phone or web support. If The Vocera Platform doesn't work, I tell the...
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Loyalty
The Vocera Platform is part of our long-term plans, and I haven’t seen competitors, so I would buy...
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Culture
Stryker doesn’t really reach out to us to optimize our communication strategy. There was a sales...
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Value
To increase the value we get from The Vocera Platform, I would like to see Stryker’s pricing change....
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Operations, Product
Our most recent upgrade of The Vocera Platform took longer than it should have, but Stryker has...
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Relationship
Stryker started making some changes for us until they realized certain changes were too hard....
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Culture, Product
The Vocera Platform works as advertised.
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Loyalty, Product
There are limitations in The Vocera Platform, but some of the limitations may be because of the...
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Product
There are a lot of things I like about The Vocera Platform. I like that it works with our clinical...
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Relationship
Stryker helps us and partners with us as we work to optimize and streamline the multiple platforms...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Value
We have had a lot of issues with Stryker, and we are going to phase them out. There is duplication...
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Operations, Product
The strengths of The Vocera Platform are the voice communication and the hands-free communication so...
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Relationship, Product
In The Vocera Platform, we can't create a group and then allow a department to add and remove people...
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Relationship
Stryker’s frontline engineers tend not to do a whole lot more than take down our information and...
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Loyalty, Product
Smart badges are more like small cell phones that we can wear with bigger screens, but the vendor's...
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Loyalty
Stryker is no longer developing The Vocera Platform. They have moved to Vocera Edge as their new...
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Relationship
One issue we have had with Stryker is that they don't have a user group. The old vendor used to have...
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Culture, Relationship
The vendor keeps their promises within the control that they have. It is difficult to interface two...
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Culture, Operations
For the initial implementation, we had somebody come on-site to do the training, and that was great....
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Product
We use The Vocera Platform in a lot of places in the building. The interface between the call light...
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Relationship
For the most part, the vendor does well with proactive communications. For example, we got an email...
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Operations, Product
The ease of use could be better. That could be due to the way that we have some things set up. We...
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Product
The broadcast function is a really nice piece for if somebody is in trouble or in a situation that...
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Operations
Our initial implementation was pretty rocky. But the last upgrade went well, so that was good. We...
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Loyalty
We decided to go with this platform because we have a lot of people who are moving all the time and...
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Product
I think we have two main challenges. One is that voice recognition is really an issue for some of...
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Relationship
As far as I am aware, there has been no failure on Stryker’s part with keeping promises. They have...
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Value
The idea of Vocera Edge is very good. The system is very expensive, but I think it is worth it for...
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Product
The EMR has the ADT information for delivering alerts. The system passes that information to The...
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Relationship
There was something that Stryker said they could do with The Vocera Platform that was a little more...
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Product
The biggest challenge facing our communication strategy is buy-in from all parties about the...
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Product
The biggest strength of the platform is its ease of use. The nurses press their call button and say...
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Product
I would like to see the solution get a longer battery life. We do have some issues with the...
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Product
One challenge is making sure the user knows how to use The Vocera Platform and always updating them...
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Loyalty, Relationship
We wouldn't have upgraded The Vocera Platform if we didn't intend to continue with Stryker....
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Value
An area for Stryker to improve is to be sensitive to the margins and just be as cost effective with...
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Relationship, Product
Stryker needs to expand the system's language because it doesn't understand or hear us. We could say...
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Product
Based on my experience with The Vocera Platform, I would like to explore other options. There are...
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Operations, Product
We had a transition from using the badges to using the iPhones, and that was quite a learning curve...
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Value
Cost is one area where Stryker could improve. They are pretty good about avoiding charging for every...
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Relationship, Product
Vocera Communications' strengths are their non-patient-related communication capabilities, like the...
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Relationship
The people from the vendor who are assigned to my account are very diligent, timely, responsive, and...
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Relationship, Product
I have never had an issue with Vocera Communications' support. Vocera Edge is a pretty simple...
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Loyalty
We almost dropped Vocera Edge a few years ago because the vendor didn't have a solution that could...
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Value
Stryker avoids charging for every little thing. They are actually pretty competitive in that respect....
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Relationship, Product
We have had some issues with Stryker not being super proactive. We recently had some issues with...
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Product
Our providers would love to be able to communicate with patients, but they can only communicate with...
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Relationship
We get pretty good support from Stryker as long as we get to people we know. We have a great Stryker...
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Product
The reporting in Vocera Edge is not fantastic. It is clunky and not easy to get because it is super...
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Operations, Product
Vocera Edge is relatively easy to use. The learning curve on it is pretty sharp, but people pick it...
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Operations
We do all the training for Vocera Edge. So unfortunately, the training is like a game of telephone,...
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Relationship, Product
The biggest challenge with our communication strategy is that in Vocera Edge, we are unable to...
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Product, Value
Using Vocera Edge has reduced the number of extraneous calls because staff members can just quickly...
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Product
The biggest challenge we are facing with our communication strategy is accessing our EMR through the...
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Operations
The implementations and upgrades for Vocera Edge have been good. Most of the training for Vocera...
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Product
In The Vocera Platform, we have noticed recently that the dedicated panic call system is limited in...
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Operations, Product
The server GUI is very easy to use and understand. There is just a specified section for users....
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Product
The new products from Stryker don't fit within our needs and really bring more complications to end...
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Value
Just from an overall perspective, I don't know exactly how The Vocera Platform compares to other...
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Relationship
I have had pretty good experiences on Stryker’s support side when we have put in tickets. The vendor...
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Value
With Stryker, some costs seem to be extra, but they aren't too bad. Overall, the value provided by...
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Product
There are instances in which The Vocera Platform does struggle. It struggles to recognize some...
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Operations
Stryker could improve their training through outreach and information. There are often things that...
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Relationship, Product, Value
The product is pretty good at supporting our integration goals. Every time somebody comes up to us...
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Culture
We talked about a wish-list item years ago, and the vendor said it was going to be in the next...
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Product
The number of alert types we are allowed to have is very limited. Our nurses really like when we can...
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Relationship
The vendor was PatientSafe, then Vocera, and now Stryker, and we don't really know who to go to....
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Product
With Vocera Edge, we have had some very unexpected outages. When the system is up and working, it is...
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