Notification of healthcare professional availability
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsIvory R.K. Assan, Denise A. Bell, Troy G. Bjerke, Sandra L. Tipton
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Abstract
In an approach to determining doctor availability, one or more computer processors receive a request for doctor availability in a patient's hospital room from a patient advocate. The one or more computer processors determine a current location of a doctor's mobile computing device. The one or more computer processors determine, based, at least in part, on the current location of the doctor's mobile computing device, an arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room. The one or more computer processors send a notification to the patient advocate of the arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room.
Claims20
A method for determining doctor availability, the method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more computer processors, a request for doctor availability in a patient's hospital room from a patient advocate;
- determining, by the one or more computer processors, a current location of a doctor's mobile computing device;
- determining, by the one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on the current location of the doctor's mobile computing device, an arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room;
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- sending, by the one or more computer processors, a notification to the patient advocate of the arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room.
A computer program product for determining doctor availability, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage devices and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage devices, the stored program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a request for doctor availability in a patient's hospital room from a patient advocate;
- program instructions to determine a current location of a doctor's mobile computing device;
- program instructions to determine, based, at least in part, on the current location of the doctor's mobile computing device, an arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room;
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- program instructions to send a notification to the patient advocate of the arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room.
A computer system for determining doctor availability, the computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage device;
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a request for doctor availability in a patient's hospital room from a patient advocate;
- program instructions to determine a current location of a doctor's mobile computing device;
- program instructions to determine, based, at least in part, on the current location of the doctor's mobile computing device, an arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room;
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- program instructions to send a notification to the patient advocate of the arrival time of the doctor in the patient's hospital room.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.