The [select]ed ventilator 45231326 was received Damaged and is awaiting on-site repair before it can be put in service. The level of detail provided depends on the specific condition of the ventilator.
By clicking on the [select] area, the right panel below shows more details for the selected ventilator (see below).
Alert/Flags Notifications
For those ventilators that are tagged with OPTIONAL (Extra Cost) G4 Cellular radio ID tags, any deviation between the GEOCODE of the facility they are assigned to and the location of the tagged device is indicated by an Alert Flag, shown for the first ventilator (Tag ID 45231324), which was delivered to the hospital at the lat-long in the table (and so still appears on its ventilator inventory) but is now being used in an entirely different location (or has been stolen). Ventilators with virtual QR ID tags cannot be tracked when they leave a facility, but they do not incur a monthly mobile network usage fee.
FEDECS™ is Always Accessible
Ventilators are checked into the FEDECS™ system using a smart-phone app that captures either a virtual bar code ID tag or a G4 cellular radio ID tag. The app captures ventilator status (see below). Ventilator status may be received, approved for deployment, deployed on patient, missing accessories, or some other non-functional status. This status is available at ALL levels; for the entire USA, for a specific FEMA region, a specific state, a particular owner system or an individual facility; thus eliminates the need for an Emergency Manager to maintain spreadsheets or make entry on several different forms to track the status of the entire deployed inventory of medical (in this case ventilator) devices. FEDECS™ provides data is both timely and easily collected.
The Emergence of FEDECS™
In 2017, MSP realied that its patient monitor and ventilators markets survey databases could be beneficial for tracking these devices during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly in large hospital networks with many hospitals, who were trying to interact with State and Federal officials who were loaning them ventilators to manage the demand of the pandemic for ICU beds and mechanical ventilation. As a result, in 2019 MSP created a medical device chain-of-custody and tracking tool, branded as FEDECS™, (FEderal DEvice Chain-of-Custody & Tracking Systems).
The first application of FEDECS™ is for ventilator tracking, but management of other devices (laboratory chemistry analyzers, patient monitors and defibrillators) is also possible. If you are a large hospital owner system, take a few moments to visit the FEDECS section of this website. Having a single solution that transcends and integrates the individual systems installed in various member hospitals is a very cost-effective, major integration advance for Owner Systems. FEDECS™ is complemented by the new Crisis/EPP Guides for individuals, hospitals (and other healthcare providers), churches, adult communities and others with special needs.
