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What Voalte is thankful for…

Last week, I was spending time at The Nebraska Medical Center overseeing the go-live of our legacy phone replacement and checking in with our executive sponsors.

As I was walking the halls, the hospital's Voalte project manager stopped me and said, "Make sure you find time to thank Ms. Smith. She went out on a limb to make this project happen. Without her putting her neck on the line, Voalte wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be seeing the success we have seen so far."

I had to stop and smile for a moment when hearing that. I had already thanked Ms. Smith a number of times (knowing that she was our main champion at the hospital), and I was definitely going to stop by and thank her again.

As I thought about all the hospitals we are live in, I can think of a number of champions who went against the grain, and put their neck on the line to stand up for what they believe in.

It's really easy to pick a legacy phone. Switching out the old dying Spectralink phones for the next version of Polycom (or any of the other legacy phone provider) takes little thought and is also low risk. At the end of the day, we all know this is the wrong decision. It is shortchanging a group of caregivers that work crazy hours every week and work miracles in healing our sick. The least we can do is give them the right tools to communicate and do their job efficiently.

So this Thanksgiving - besides great family, friends, and mediocre Gator Football - I am thankful for the Ms. Smith's of the world. I am thankful for the champions in each of our hospitals that stand-up for their nursing staff. I am thankful for the IT Director who challenges the status quo to get his caregiver the right communication tools they deserve.

In a world where it is easy to take the path of least resistance, I am thankful for the leaders that have the courage to stand up and make the right choices for their caregivers.

I can guarantee this Thanksgiving, your nurses are just as thankful as I am that you made the right decision.

- All the best, Trey Lauderdale, Founder and VP of Innovation

Welcome to my first blog article, which happens to be written on my new iPhone 4S without a keyboard thanks to the help of Siri and speech to text. No desktop or laptop computer was used in the creation of this article and no apps were harmed in the process.

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