Comment by DataDrivenMD

As an anesthesiologist and hacker, I love the enthusiasm here. I’m less concerned about the hospital use-case. It would be helpful to crowdsource solutions to address the need for ventilators after patients leave the ICU. Based on current practice patterns, some patients will undergo tracheostomy tube placement, and then need to be discharged to respiratory rehab facilities. We will need to increase capacity in this setting, and I’m not seeing or hearing anyone address this area. If we don’t solve this problem, we will find ourselves with a backlog of patients who could be discharged from the ICU, but with nowhere to go.