Philips started to replace cpap and bipap devices.They are not telling customers to move the removable modem over that was in the old machine to the new one.This results in loss of compliance monitoring since philips instructs the patients to send the old machine back (that contains a removable modem).The modems are expensive and hard to obtain.Our hospital system does not allow us to download a report from the sd card so patients are essentially out of luck in terms of obtaining a compliance report unless they physically go to the dme, but many dme's are in different states and just ship stuff to patients.Please tell philips they have to provide instructions specifically to move the removable modem over or make them replace the modems that were inadvertently sent back to philips.All they do currently is provide a manual for the new device, no specific instructions to move over the sd card, modem or humidifier.Fda safety report id #(b)(4).
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