Falls risk management

One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause the computing devices to:

• receive intake information for a patient at a healthcare facility;
• access any available medical information for the patient;
• access fall-related rules for the healthcare facility, the falls-related rules defining fall risk stratifications and protocols for preventing falls, and the falls-related rules being custom for the healthcare facility;
• before receiving a fall risk score input from a caregiver analysis, determine a fall risk stratification for the patient based on the intake information, available medical information for the patient, and falls-related rules for the healthcare facility;
• communicate the fall risk stratification to one or more caregiver communication systems;
• and
• generate and communicate one or more tasks to one or more caregivers assigned to the patient through the one or more caregiver communication systems, the tasks being generated based on the falls-related rules, wherein the tasks and alerts are communicated through a mobile application to caregivers assigned to the patient;
• repeat execution of the computer-executable instructions until the healthcare facility is no longer administering care to the patient,
• wherein the computing devices are configured to generate commands to one or more external devices to automatically perform tasks or adjustments to reduce the patient's fall risk based on the patient's risk stratification, including to enable a bed rail associated with a bed that is supporting the patient, and
• wherein at least one of the tasks is communicating a command to a bed exit alarm to automatically arm the bed exit alarm when the fall risk stratification is high.

A computer-implemented method of managing patient fall risk in a healthcare facility, the method comprising:

• a) automatically aggregating, at a fall risk management system, falls-related data for a patient from one or more healthcare information systems;
• b) accessing, from a rules data store, falls-related rules for a healthcare facility administering care to the patient, the falls-related rules defining criteria for fall risk stratifications and protocols for each fall risk stratification, and the falls-related rules being custom for the healthcare facility;
• c) stratifying fall risk of the patient based on healthcare facility falls-related rules and falls-related data associated with the patient;
• d) automatically generating and communicating tasks and alerts to one or more devices, the tasks and alerts being based on a fall risk stratification of the patient and the healthcare facility falls-related rules, wherein the tasks and alerts are communicated through a mobile application to caregivers assigned to the patient;
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• e) repeating steps a-d until the healthcare facility is no longer administering care to the patient,
• wherein the fall risk management system is configured to generate commands to one or more external devices to automatically perform tasks or adjustments to reduce the patient's fall risk based on the patient's risk stratification, including to enable a bed rail associated with a bed that is supporting the patient, and
• wherein at least one of the tasks is communicating a command to a bed exit alarm to automatically arm the bed exit alarm when the fall risk stratification is high.