Stream: patient empowerment
Topic: Covid19 Respiratory Kit
Abbie Watson (Jun 15 2020 at 14:27):
For DevDays, I want to share a patient empowerment project I've been working on the past few months. This started off as a smart EMT kit, with the thinking that we would have a FHIR enabled app to track contents of your first-responder bag or medical home supply cabinet. With Covid19 however, we suddenly have a need to organize respiratory care for first-responders, medical homes, paratransit vehicles, good samaritans, and others. So the product has pivoted into respiratory care.
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Contents currently include:
- Oxygen tank (over the counter)
- Good Samaritan qualifying O2 regulator
- Single use oxygen mask(s)
- High-flow nasal cannulas
- N99 mask
- Disposable gloves
- Hand sanitizer
- Digital stethoscope
- ECG monitor
- Nighttime blood oxygen monitor
- Portable kit bag
- Supports Apple HealthRecords
- All equipment is FDA Approved
And here is the bag when it's all packed. (When I packed it for the first time, I breathed a small sigh of relief that I had a game plan for how to respond to emergency calls during upcoming waves of coronavirus.)
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The thinking right now is to have 3 kits:
- Good Samaritan
- Smart Kit
- Physician/Paramedic
The Good Samaritan is the kind of kit somebody might want in their car as they drive Uber and Lyft gigs, and are called to a location where somebody is short of breath.
The Smart Kit is for the version for medical homes and paratransit vehicles, which are monitoring high-risk family members. It will support Apple HealthRecords and nighttime monitoring equipment.
While the physician/paramedic kit is a clinician grade product that will provide routing recommendations to which local hospitals have the greatest bed/ventilator capacity.
Importantly, this is a way to AVOID putting people on a ventilator, and spreads the respiratory care load, thereby helping to flatten the curve.
Anyhow, long story short, we're introducing a product that has Break-The-Glass Protocol support on the roadmap. :sunglasses:
Terrie Reed (Jun 15 2020 at 23:07):
If you are tracking and you want to monitor as FDA approved, then you will be including UDIs. Right?
Abbie Watson (Jun 16 2020 at 17:23):
Yup, that's the idea. Technically, everything in the kit is over-the-counter and qualifies under Good Samaritan laws. But for tracking purposes, yes, our software would track and provide the UDIs as part of the value-add for the professional products.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
