Fetal Monitoring and Data Archiving Solution for the Stead Family Children's Hospital

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is seeking a fetal monitoring and data archiving solution for the Stead Family Children's Hospital. The system should have the ability to integrate with EPIC, Philips fetal monitors, and other devices. It should also have real-time alarm visibility and alerting, centralized multi-room overview dashboard, and remote access for providers. The system should be able to store and retain fetal tracing data, have redundancy and failover capabilities, and meet cybersecurity certifications such as SOC2, HITRUST, and ISO 27001. The vendor should provide training, implementation, and support, as well as a cost structure that includes license model, hardware costs, implementation and training fees, and annual maintenance and support. • The system should have clinical functionality such as continuous fetal and maternal tracing display, centralized multi-room overview dashboard, real-time alarm visibility and alerting, and event annotation. • The system should have workflow features such as bedside-to-central station connectivity, direct tracing export into EHR, integration with flowsheet documentation, and automated data capture. • The system should have interoperability and integration with standards such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, and IEEE. • The system should have safety, quality, and compliance features such as configurable alarm management and escalation, audit trail and event tracking, and compliance with maternal safety bundles. • The system should have hardware requirements such as workstation and thin-client specifications, central monitoring station specifications, and mobile device support. • The system should have training, implementation, and support such as estimated implementation timeline, training plans for RNs, providers, and super-users, and availability of e-learning modules.