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Daylight Savings Time - Fall Back
Daylight Savings Time - Fall Back
On Sunday morning, November 3, 2024, clocks turn back one hour at 02:00 to become 01:00, when Daylight Savings Time (DST) ends.
While the Connect Care clinical information system as a whole will not be taking an outage, due to the unique challenges falling back poses with repeated time intervals, a safe approach to the end of DST is to schedule a downtime for specific applications.
The following applications will have an outage, each with its own time and length:
- Transfusion (WellSky Transfusion Medicine System): Sunday, November 3, 2024, from 01:59 MDT to 02:07 MST (approximately 70-minute duration). During this outage, please limit non-essential transfusion activity in Epic and follow the Blood Product Administration Downtime Procedures as needed.
- Bridges Device Interfaces: Sunday, November 3, 2024, from 01:50 MDT to 02:10 MST (80-minute duration). Data that flows from medical devices into the patient chart in Connect Care will be impacted (impacted medical devices include: patient monitors, hemodialysis machines, dialysis machines, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy [CRRT] devices, fetal monitors, ventilators/anesthesia machines, perfusion machines). For full details on DST procedures for affected areas, please refer to the Fall DST Guide.
A 1-pager summarizes other key considerations around DST for prescribers, and a guide provides further details. Additional instruction on downtime procedures is also available in the Connect Care Manual and linked resources: