Checklist for installing FH Medic

Caution: Below is a high-level checklist of the steps an administrator for your department needs to perform to install the different components of FH Medic. Detailed information for the steps below are available in the following pages of the FH Medic Installation Guide.

Tip: Print this page off and check off the items below as you accomplish them.

 

Check for an email from FIREHOUSE Software technical support, containing URLs to download FH Medic, the FH Medic Integration Suite, the URL to your department's FH Medic administration site, administration logon credentials, and other information. 

On each mobile computer that will run FH Medic in the field, do the following.

Download the FH Medic application.

Install the FH Medic application.

License the FH Medic application.

Log into the FH Medic application.

(If you will import FH Medic incident data into FIREHOUSE Software, or if you will receive initial incident data from a CAD system) On a computer in your department's network at the fire station, do the following.

Download the FH Medic Integration Suite.

Install the FH Medic Integration Suite.

Configure the FH Medic Integration Suite.

(If you will import FH Medic incidents into a FIREHOUSE Software database) Prepare the FIREHOUSE Software database.

Remove the EMS code set from FIREHOUSE Software.

Apply the .FHz file.

Remove user-defined fields or field requirements.

Find user-defined system rules.

Remove user-defined system rules.

Determine unit lookup codes.

Determine staff ID numbers.

Set up an automated task to import incident data from FH Medic to the FIREHOUSE Software database.

Enable the automated task processor.

Start the FH Medic Integration Suite's service.