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US 10,872,387 B2Granted
Hospital bed event notification
AssigneeTeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
InventorsArpan Acharya, Harold Barrett, Don DeCorte, Tom Perry
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Abstract
An aspect provides a method, including receiving an indication that a tag associated with a real time location system has been detected at a pre-determined location, the detected tag being associated with a patient in a hospital; and assigning a status of the patient based on detection of the tag; and updating a bed availability indication based on detection of the tag. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims14
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a bed management system, an indication that a tag associated with a real time location system and assigned to and worn by a patient in a hospital has been detected at a predetermined location within the hospital having a patient bed, wherein the predetermined location and corresponding patient bed are associated within the real time location system, wherein the indication is received in response to a sensor within the predetermined location detecting the tag worn by the patient at the predetermined location;
- automatically updating, responsive to determining that the predetermined location is associated with a patient bed that was previously assigned to the patient and on a display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the predetermined location from an unoccupied status to an occupied status assigned to the patient in the bed management system, wherein the status of the patient bed within the bed management system is not changed if the patient bed is not previously assigned to the patient and the patient is at the predetermined location, corresponding to the location of the patient bed, less than a predetermined threshold of time;
- automatically, responsive to detecting the tag at the predetermined location having a patient bed, updating a patient status within the real time location tracking system, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to admitted if the patient did not have a previously assigned patient bed, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to transferred if the patient had a previously assigned patient bed not corresponding to the patient bed of the predetermined location;
- receiving, at the bed management system, an indication that the tag worn by the patient assigned to the patient bed having an occupied status has been detected at a pre-determined discharge location;
- automatically assigning, through the bed management system, a discharged status to the patient based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location;
- automatically updating, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the patient in the bed management system based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location and based upon the discharged status of the patient, wherein the updating comprises changing and displaying, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, the status indication of the bed from the occupied status to a status of bed needing service;
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- automatically sending, by the bed management system, a notification of the changed bed availability to hospital staff.
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An information handling device, comprising:
- a memory operatively coupled to one or more processors that stores instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
- receiving, at a bed management system, an indication that a tag associated with a real time location system and assigned to and worn by a patient in a hospital has been detected at a predetermined location within the hospital having a patient bed, wherein the predetermined location and corresponding patient bed are associated within the real time location system, wherein the indication is received in response to a sensor within the predetermined location detecting the tag worn by the patient at the predetermined location;
- automatically updating, responsive to determining that the predetermined location is associated with a patient bed that was previously assigned to the patient and on a display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the predetermined location from an unoccupied status to an occupied status assigned to the patient in the bed management system, wherein the status of the patient bed within the bed management system is not changed if the patient bed is not previously assigned to the patient and the patient is at the predetermined location, corresponding to the location of the patient bed, less than a predetermined threshold of time;
- automatically, responsive to detecting the tag at the predetermined location having a patient bed, updating a patient status within the real time location tracking system, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to admitted if the patient did not have a previously assigned patient bed, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to transferred if the patient had a previously assigned patient bed not corresponding to the patient bed of the predetermined location;
- receiving, at the bed management system, an indication that the tag worn by the patient assigned to the patient bed having an occupied has been detected at a pre-determined discharge location;
- automatically assigning, through the bed management system, a discharged status to the patient based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location;
- automatically updating, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the patient in the bed management system based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location and based upon the discharged status of the patient, wherein the updating comprises changing and displaying, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, the status indication of the bed from the occupied status to a status of bed needing service;
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- automatically sending, by the bed management system, a notification of the changed bed availability to hospital staff.
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A program product, comprising:
- a non-transitory storage device having computer program code embodied therewith, the computer program code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- computer program code configured to receive, at a bed management system, an indication that a tag associated with a real time location system and assigned to and worn by a patient in a hospital has been detected at a predetermined location within the hospital having a patient bed, wherein the predetermined location and corresponding patient bed are associated within the real time location system, wherein the indication is received in response to a sensor within the predetermined location detecting the tag worn by the patient at the predetermined location;
- computer program code configured to automatically update, responsive to determining that the predetermined location is associated with a patient bed that was previously assigned to the patient and on a display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the predetermined location from an unoccupied status to an occupied status assigned to the patient in the bed management system, wherein the status of the patient bed within the bed management system is not changed if the patient bed is not previously assigned to the patient and the patient is at the predetermined location, corresponding to the location of the patient bed, less than a predetermined threshold of time;
- computer program code configured to automatically, responsive to detecting the tag at the predetermined location having a patient bed, updating a patient status within the real time location tracking system, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to admitted if the patient did not have a previously assigned patient bed, wherein the updating the patient status comprises updating the patient status to transferred if the patient had a previously assigned patient bed not corresponding to the patient bed of the predetermined location;
- computer program code configured to receive, at the bed management system, an indication that the tag associated with the patient assigned to the patient bed having an occupied status has been detected at a pre-determined discharge location;
- computer program code configured to automatically assign, through the bed management system, a discharged status to the patient based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location;
- computer readable program code configured to automatically update, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, a status of the patient bed associated with the patient in the bed management system based on detection of the tag in the pre-determined discharge location and based upon the discharged status of the patient, wherein to update comprises changing and displaying, on the display screen associated with the bed management system, the status indication of the bed from the occupied status to a status of bed needing service;
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- computer readable program code configured to automatically send, by the bed management system, a notification of the changed bed availability to hospital staff.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.