Location Sensitive Healthcare Task Management System

A personnel and device location sensitive system for managing healthcare worker tasks, comprising:

• a tracking processor for monitoring healthcare worker, patient and equipment location to provide device and personnel location data by detection of wirelessly communicating tag devices attached to healthcare workers and equipment;
• and
• a workflow engine, using said location data and responsive to a process definition, for automatically updating a task list of a healthcare worker to indicate tasks ranked in response to a performance location for performance of a particular task and nearness to said performance location of a location of said healthcare worker and,
• a skill set of said healthcare worker,
• a current workload of said healthcare worker and
• urgency of said particular task.

A personnel and device location sensitive system for managing healthcare worker tasks, comprising:

• a tracking processor for monitoring healthcare worker, patient and equipment location to provide device and personnel location data by detection of wirelessly communicating tag devices attached to healthcare workers and equipment;
• and
• a workflow engine, using said location data and responsive to a process definition, using said location data for automatically updating a task list of a healthcare worker to indicate tasks ranked in response to a performance location for performance of a particular task and nearness to said performance location of,
• a location of a patient, and
• a location of said healthcare worker.

A personnel and device location sensitive system for managing healthcare worker tasks, comprising:

• a tracking processor for monitoring healthcare worker, patient and equipment location to provide device and personnel location data by detection of wirelessly communicating tag devices attached to healthcare workers and equipment;
• and
• a workflow engine responsive to a process definition, for using said location data as decision criteria in a process to select a next step from a plurality of candidate next steps and using said location data for automatically updating a task list of a healthcare worker to indicate tasks ranked in response to a performance location for performance of a particular task and nearness to said performance location of,
• a location of particular equipment for use in performing said particular task and
• a location said healthcare worker.

A personnel and device location sensitive system for managing healthcare worker tasks, comprising

• a tracking processor for monitoring healthcare worker, patient and equipment location to provide device and personnel location data by detection of wirelessly communicating tag devices attached to healthcare workers, patients and equipment;
• a display processor using said location data for initiating generation of data representing at least one display image associating a work task, comprising providing a treatment related service to a patient, for performance by a healthcare worker, with a current location of a patient and equipment to be used in providing said treatment related service;
• and
• a workflow processor using said location data for updating a task list of a healthcare worker to indicate tasks ranked in response to a plurality of different factors including, task urgency, location of particular equipment used in a particular task, worker role and at least one of, (a) location of patient to whom a task pertains and (b) location of a worker to whom the task will be assigned.

A personnel and device location sensitive system for managing healthcare worker tasks, comprising:

• a tracking processor for monitoring healthcare worker, patient and equipment location to provide device and personnel location data by detection of wirelessly communicating tag devices attached to healthcare workers and equipment;
• a workflow engine using said location data for automatically updating a task list of a healthcare worker to indicate tasks ranked in response to a performance location for performance of a particular task and nearness to said performance location of,
• a location of particular equipment for use in performing said particular task,
• a location of said healthcare worker and
• at least one of, (a) a predetermined worker proficiency level in operating said particular equipment used in said particular task and (b) a predetermined worker proficiency level in treating a patient with a particular medical condition.