Planning updates for an interdependent fleet of medical devices

Abstract

In planning an upcoming update or upgrade of a fleet of medical devices, historical workload information are received for medical devices of the fleet. Cost preferences are received for respective costs of the upcoming update or upgrade. Values for the respective costs of the upcoming update or upgrade of the fleet are estimated for different scenarios for performing the upcoming update or upgrade. One or more proposed scenarios are selected for performing the upcoming update or upgrade of the fleet of medical devices based on comparisons of the estimated values for the respective costs with the cost preferences for the respective costs received via the UI. Information is displayed about the selected one or more scenarios for performing the upcoming update or upgrade of the fleet of medical devices including at least indications of the estimated values for the respective costs.

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