The California Department of Public Health (CDHP) has awarded ReddiNet® a multi-year contract to provide a Hospital Bed and Emergency Medical Services Data System (HBEDS) to support compliance with Assembly Bill 177.
A service of HASC, ReddiNet is a web-based emergency medical communications system. ReddiNet is currently used by 75% of California hospitals, emergency medical services and first responders in 24 counties for reporting hospital, patient and emergency event status. Its existing bed capacity module will now provide an HBEDS dashboard to become the statewide system for real-time hospital capacity monitoring and coordinated medical surge response across California.
“This award is a significant achievement for HASC and a testament to the hard work, expertise and dedication across our team,” said Tammi McConnell, HASC’s senior vice president, ReddiNet.
“The RFP response was an intensive team effort with a very short timeline,” she said. “I want to recognize Allen Bleyle, Anahi Martinez, Jason Sincomb and Lewis West, who directly contributed to ReddiNet’s RFP response and demonstration. I also applaud the entire team for supporting this initiative while continuing to manage daily operations.”
State Request for Real-time Bed Availability Data
Passed in 2024, AB 177 required CDPH, in collaboration with the California Department of Health Care Services, to develop and administer a solution to collect and display data on bed capacity in acute care hospitals, emergency departments and behavioral health facilities statewide. The goal is to reduce morbidity and mortality during normal operations and crises by facilitating patient transfers and placement and supporting public health and medical emergency responses.
The solution calls for an HBEDS that displays real-time staffed bed type availability on a secure dashboard for participating hospitals and local and state officials. Automated through hospital electronic medical records/electronic health records (EMR/EHR) systems, HBEDS will replace the need to manually survey bed capacity.
ReddiNet HBEDS
The current ReddiNet system already includes a bed capacity module. For the HBEDS solution, the module will be upgraded to automatically collect data every 15 minutes from EMR/EHR systems. The HBEDS will include a dashboard that displays data in both geographical and list views. Users can filter data by hospital, county, region and state, as well as by facility type, bed type, occupancy, condition, age range and sex. In addition to bed capacity, HBEDS will monitor and report on disease surveillance, surge indicators and data trends.
Over the next five years, ReddiNet will coordinate a wave-based hospital outreach and onboarding process to acquire the HBEDS data elements. The first wave will focus on the 261 hospital users already on ReddiNet, starting in fall 2026. As the dashboard matures, it will enhance situational awareness and data driven decision-making to ensure coordinated emergency response and patient movement efforts.