Vocera Communications, Inc. has named M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer. M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., brings vast expertise in using technology and process improvements to rapidly transform and humanize the patient experience to her new role as CMO of Vocera. Previously, he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of ExperiaHealth.

In addition, the company announced substantial enhancements to the Vocera software platform which improves clinical communication and delivers a compelling ROI for hospitals. The latest version of the Vocera System Software, 4.3 SP2, improves nurse workflow through direct integration to nurse call systems including Rauland-Borg Responder(R) 5 and Ascom Telligence(R) (formerly GE Telligence). The update also provides improved analytics and reporting for tracking integration, speech recognition, and telephony to improve clinical workflow and lower total cost of ownership. This updated platform supports the latest version of the Vocera Connect for Smartphone applications that include enhanced scalability for enterprise deployments. The Connect 1.1 release provides enhanced deployment tools for Vocera Connect Smartphone clients, used on iPhone(R) and Android(TM) smartphones, lowering the total cost of ownership related to deploying and managing the application.