Responding to healthcare alerts
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsSteven B. Graniewitz, Nachum Shmilovitz, Avi Ben-Hayun
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Abstract
A healthcare alert system including a plurality of alert modules, each alert module including an activation component and an RFID reader. The RFID readers in the alert modules are configured to read identification information of a responder to an alert from an RFID tag associated with the responder, and to transmit the identification information to a central system. The central system is configured associate a time stamp with the identification information and to process the identification information and time of response. In one embodiment, the activation component is a pull cord.
Claims23
A radio frequency identification (RFID) healthcare alert module comprising:
- an alert module comprising an activation component and an RFID reader;
- wherein a user can activate an alert using the activation component;
- wherein the RFID reader is configured to read identification information of a responder from an RFID tag associated with the responder and to transmit the identification information to a central system.
An RFID healthcare alert system comprising:
- a plurality of alert modules, wherein each alert module comprises an activation component and an RFID reader;
- wherein at least one of the RFID readers is configured to read identification information of a responder from an RFID tag associated with the responder, and to transmit the identification information to a central system;
- wherein the central system is configured to associate a time stamp with the received identification information.
A method of handling a healthcare alert, comprising:
- receiving an activation of a alert module through an activation component;
- generating an alarm corresponding to the activation of the alert module;
- reading identification information from an RFID tag associated with at least one responder using an RFID reader;
- and
- transmitting the identification information to a central system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.