Dynamically associating and disassociating patients and medical devices
AssigneeCerner Innovation, Inc.
InventorJAY CHRISTOPHER VAGLIO
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Abstract
Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for dynamically associating and disassociating patients and medical devices. A signal communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network is received when a patient is in proximity to a medical device. In various embodiments, the signal originates with a patient wristband or the medical device. The medical device is automatically associated to the patient. When the signal is no longer being received, the medical device may be automatically disassociated from the patient. Data associated with the medical device may be communicated to an EMR associated with the patient. A mobile device associated with a clinician may be communicated with via the Bluetooth personal area network.
Claims20
One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for automatically associating a patient to a medical device, the method comprising:
- receiving a signal, at a medical device, the signal originating from a patient wristband associated with a patient in proximity to the medical device and communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network;
- recognizing the patient wristband associated with the signal;
- identifying a patient associated with the patient wristband;
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- associating the patient to the medical device.
A system for automatically associating a patient to a medical device, the comprising:
- a patient wristband associated with a patient that communicates to one or medical devices via a Bluetooth personal area network (PAN) when the patient wristband is within range of the one or more medical devices;
- the one or more medical devices configured to communicate via the Bluetooth PAN with a mobile device associated with a clinician;
- the mobile device configured to receive an association request to associate the one or more medical devices to the patient;
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- an electronic medical record associated with the patient configured to receive device information communicated by the one or more medical devices and clinician information from the mobile device associated with the clinician.
A method for associating a medical device to a patient, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a patient wristband, a signal originating from a medical device, the signal being communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network;
- automatically associating the medical device to the patient;
- and
- automatically disassociating the medical device from the patient when the patient wristband no longer receives the signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.