System and method for providing medical caregiver and equipment management patient care
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsBrian David Gross, John Louis Barga, Martin Bufe, Elizabeth Zengo, Andreas Pirrung, Guenter Gegner, Wilhelm Meier
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Abstract
A medical device and caretaking management system (10) includes a plurality of medical devices (14) that transmit equipment data and patient data. A central or distributed monitoring system (12) receives the equipment data and patient data from the plurality of medical devices, derives an acuity for each of the patients, and assigns caregivers and equipment based on the derived acuity for display on a display device (26).
Claims22
A medical device and caretaking management system, the system comprising:
- a central or distributed monitoring station that receives the equipment data and patient data from a plurality of medical devices and assigns caregivers based on the equipment data and patient data and/or preprocessed patient status.
A method for managing medical devices and caregivers, the method comprising:
- receiving patient data and equipment data from a plurality of medical devices, the patient data and equipment data being transmitted from one or more medical devices assigned to each of a plurality of patients;
- deriving an acuity for each of a plurality of patients based on the patient data and equipment data;
- and
- making and dynamically changing caregiver assignments, assignment of medical device, and equipment settings based on the derived acuities.
A system comprising:
- one or more processors programmed to:
- derive an acuity for each of a plurality of patients based on monitored data received from, equipment assigned to, and settings of the equipment assigned to each patient,
- based on the derived acuities, making and dynamically changing caregiver assignments, equipment settings, and alerts;
- and
- one or more display devices on which the caregiver assignments, the equipment settings, and the alerts are displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.