Vocera Communications, Inc., a mobile technology company, provides secure, integrated, and intelligent communication solutions enabling mobile workers in healthcare and other mission-critical environments. It also offers an enterprise-class communication platform that enables hands-free voice communication, secure text messaging, real-time patient and staff rounding, and integrations with approximately 70 clinical systems, including electronic health records, nurse call systems, and physiological monitors. The company, through its research collaborative, the Experience Innovation Network, which is a membership-based program, enables thought leadership and new standards in care to elevate patient, family, nurse, and physician experiences. In addition, Vocera Communications, Inc. offers advisory services, process improvement plans, curriculum and implementation tools, professional services, and technical support services, as well as educational services. It sells its products through direct sales force, resellers, and distributors. Vocera Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, California and Knoxville, Tennessee, as well as in Canada, India, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Vocera Acquires Extension Healthcare SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that it has acquired Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. Based in Fort Wayne, Ind., Extension Healthcare is a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment. The strengths of the two companies and their solutions will deepen interoperability of the Vocera Communication Platform with more than 120 clinical systems, including electronic health records (EHRs), physiologic monitors, enterprise clinical systems, and biomed devices such as ventilators. It will also extend the scalability of the enterprise-class platform and enable stronger person-to-person and system-to-person workflows within a single system from a single vendor. The addition of Extension Healthcare’s complementary software to the Vocera Communication Platform creates the most powerful and complete mobile communication and collaboration platform on the market.
Vocera Communications shares are trading higher after Stryker announced a definitive agreement to acquire the company. Jan 6, 2022 9:01a ET