Fetal Monitoring and Data Archiving Solution

The Vendor is required to provide fetal monitoring and data archiving solution for include:
- System architecture & technical requirements
• Deployment options: on‑premises, cloud, or hybrid
• Supported integrations with epic
• Supported monitoring devices
• Needs to integrate with fetal monitors
• Desire to have functionality with other fetal monitors for future needs
• Data storage requirements and retention capabilities
• System redundancy, failover, and downtime procedures
• Network requirements, wireless compatibility
- Clinical functionality
• Continuous fetal and maternal tracing display
• Centralized multi‑room overview dashboard
• Real‑time alarm visibility and alerting
• Alarm system needs to have same level of security and integrity as other patient clinical alarming systems.
• Volume of alarming source should not be able to be altered by staff
• Sound device should not be able to disassociate from the alarming source.
• Event annotation must flow into the epic
• Maternal vital signs and contraction patterns
• Remote access for providers
• Support for twins/multiples
• Color coding and UI customization options
- Workflow features
• Bedside‑to‑central station connectivity
• Direct tracing export into EHR
• Integration with flowsheet documentation
• Automated data capture
• Provider notification options (secure messaging, paging)
• Tele‑obstetrics and remote fetal surveillance support
• The ability to monitor patients outside of the OB units and have data store in the overview system.
- Interoperability & integration
• Real‑time EHR integration for ADT, documentation
• Desired to have patient transfer within 1 system
• When patient is moved in epic, the patient moves in the FM system.
• This will reduce the number of errors in missed archived tracings.
• Identity management compatibility
- Data management & record retention
• Fetal tracing storage method and format
• Record retention periods and configuration options
• Data export for legal or audit requests
• Backup and disaster recovery procedures
- Usability & accessibility
• User interface experience and intuitive workflow
• Accessibility features (contrast, scale, ADA considerations)
• Customizable display layouts
• User feedback from existing health systems
• Downtime modes and read‑only viewer options.