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PerfectServe knows who is actually on call
A hospital can have every specialist it needs and still struggle to reach one. PerfectServe connects the schedule to the message - and makes a surprisingly expensive game of phone tag easier to retire.
Spok and the art of being reachable
A pager looks quaint until someone urgently needs you. Spok has built a hospital communications business around that awkward fact - and learned an expensive lesson about chasing the next new thing.
Michelle White Is Building the Marketing Machine Before the RFP Arrives
At TigerConnect, Michelle White is treating enterprise marketing as infrastructure: coordinated, measurable, and already at work before a buyer asks for a proposal.
TigerConnect Turned a Vanishing-Text Gimmick Into the Operating Layer Hospitals Actually Needed
It started with messages that disappeared. Then the founders noticed the bigger business hiding in plain sight: hospitals did not need another inbox - they needed the right work to reach the right person before the moment was lost.
Vocera Communications, now part of Stryker
Vocera Communications builds the hands-free, voice-controlled communication tools that hospitals use to connect care teams in real time. Founded in 2000 and inspired by the Star Trek communicator badge, Vocera's wearable Badge and Smartbadge, plus its Vina app and Engage intelligent-workflow platform, let clinicians reach a colleague by name, role, or group with a single voice command. Used in roughly 2,300 facilities worldwide and integrated with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, Vocera went public in 2012 (NYSE: VCRA) and was acquired by medical-technology giant Stryker in February 2022 for about $3.09 billion, where it now anchors Stryker's digital care coordination portfolio.