Medical equipment servicing
Systems and techniques for receiving status updates from multiple automated external defibrillators, receiving, from a user, a request to access status information, and sending, to the user, summary level status information for at least some of the multiple automated external defibrillators, the summary level status information being grouped based on a measure of geographic proximity of the multiple automated external defibrillators.
1. A system comprising:
a database comprising device identifiers and status information associated with a plurality of external defibrillators; and
a computer located remotely from the plurality of external defibrillators and configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of external defibrillators and to:
receive status information updates from the plurality of external defibrillators;
update the status information with the status information updates;
receive from a requestor a request to access the status information;
authenticate the requestor in response to the request;
based on the authentication of the requestor, determine, from amongst the plurality of external defibrillators identified in the database, a set of external defibrillators associated with the requestor; and
send the status information for the determined set of external defibrillators to at least one remote user interface associated with the requestor,
wherein the status information comprises at least one of a self-test result, a date of last servicing, and a status of a component, of one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators, wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test, and wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators passed the self-test.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of external defibrillators is a plurality of automated external defibrillators.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the self-test result indicates why the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the status information is classified based on at least one level of functionality.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one level of functionality is at least two levels of functionality.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least two levels of functionality are indicated by a color-code.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the component is an electrode.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the status of the component comprises an expiration status of the electrode.
9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the status of the component comprises a functional status of the electrode.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the component is a battery.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the status of the component includes a charge level of the battery.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the status information comprises at least two of the self-test result, the date of last servicing, and the status of the component, of the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators.
13. A computer program product comprising instructions to cause a processor to:
receive status information updates from a plurality of external defibrillators located remotely from the processor;
update status information in a database comprising device identifiers and the status information for the plurality of external defibrillators with the status information updates;
receive from a requestor a request to access the status information;
authenticate the requestor in response to the request;
based on the authentication of the requestor, determine, from amongst the plurality of external defibrillators identified in the database, a set of external defibrillators associated with the requestor; and
send the status information for the determined set of external defibrillators to at least one remote user interface associated with the requestor,
wherein the status information comprises at least one of a self-test result, a date of last servicing, and a status of a component, of one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators, wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test, and wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators passed the self-test.
14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of external defibrillators is a plurality of automated external defibrillators.
15. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the self-test result indicates why the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test.
16. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the status information is classified based on at least one level of functionality.
17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the at least one level of functionality is at least two levels of functionality.
18. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the at least two levels of functionality are indicated by a color-code.
19. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the component is an electrode.
20. The computer program product of claim 19 , wherein the status of the electrode comprises an expiration status of the electrode.
21. The computer program product of claim 20 , wherein the status of the component comprises a functional status of the electrode.
22. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the component is a battery.
23. The computer program product of claim 22 , wherein the status of the component includes a charge level of the battery.
24. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the status information comprises at least two of the self-test result, the date of last servicing, and the status of the component, of the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators.
25. A system comprising:
a database comprising device identifiers and status information for a plurality of external defibrillators; and
a computer located remotely from the plurality of external defibrillators and configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of external defibrillators and to:
receive status information updates from the plurality of external defibrillators;
update the status information with the status information updates;
receive from a requestor a request to access the status information;
authenticate the requestor in response to the request;
based on the authentication of the requestor, determine, from amongst the plurality of external defibrillators identified in the database, a set of external defibrillators associated with the requestor; and
send the status information for the determined set of external defibrillators to at least one remote user interface associated with the requestor,
wherein the status information comprises at least one of a self-test result, a date of last servicing, and a status of a component, of one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators and wherein the status information is classified based on at least two levels of functionality that are indicated at the at least one remote user interface by a color-code.
26. The system of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of external defibrillators is a plurality of automated external defibrillators.
27. The system of claim 25 , wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test.
28. The system of claim 27 , wherein the self-test result indicates why the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators failed the self-test.
29. The system of claim 27 , wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators passed the self-test.
30. The system of claim 25 , wherein the component is an electrode.
31. The system of claim 30 , wherein the status of the component comprises an expiration status of the electrode.
32. The system of claim 30 , wherein the status of the component comprises a functional status of the electrode.
33. The system of claim 25 , wherein the component is a battery.
34. The system of claim 33 , wherein the status of the component includes a charge level of the battery.
35. The system of claim 25 , wherein the status information comprises at least two of the self-test result, the date of last servicing, and the status of the component, of the one or more of the plurality of external defibrillators.
36. A system comprising:
a database comprising device identifiers and status information for a plurality of automated external defibrillators (AEDs); and
a computer located remotely from the plurality of AEDs and configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of AEDs and to:
receive the status information from the plurality of AEDs;
store the status information in the database;
receive from a requestor a request to access the status information;
authenticate the requestor in response to the request;
based on the authentication of the requestor, determine, from amongst the plurality of AEDs identified in the database, a set of AEDs associated with the requestor; and
send the status information for the determined set of AEDs to at least one remote user interface associated with the requestor,
wherein the status information comprises at least one of a self-test result, a date of last servicing, and a status of a component, of one or more of the plurality of AEDs, wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of AEDs failed the self-test, and wherein the self-test result indicates whether the one or more of the plurality of AEDs passed the self-test.