Identification of device location in healthcare facility
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsDean Bostic, Ryan Hochworter, Eric P. Jensen
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Abstract
A system for identifying a location of a device is described. The system includes a patient support device and a healthcare apparatus connected to the patient support device. The healthcare apparatus has a plurality of sensor devices and a scanner device. The scanner device is able to scan machine-readable labels to identify a patient identifier and a device identifier. A server is configured to determine a location of the patient support device using the patient identifier and device identifier.
Claims20
A system for identifying a location of a device, the system comprising:
- a server connected to at least one of a healthcare apparatus and a patient support device, the server having a processing device and at least one non-transitory computer readable data storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the processing device, cause the server to:
- receive inbound data including a patient identifier identifying a patient and a device identifier identifying the patient support device that is supporting the patient;
- correlate the device identifier to the patient identifier;
- receive location data associated with the patient identifier;
- determine a location of the patient support device based on correlating the location data to the device identifier;
- and
- transmit the location of the patient support device as outbound data to a status board.
A method for identifying a location of a device, the method comprising:
- receiving a patient identifier identifying a patient and a device identifier identifying a device associated with the patient;
- correlating the device identifier to the patient identifier;
- receiving location data associated with the patient identifier;
- determining a location of the device by correlating the location data to the device identifier;
- and
- transmitting the location of the device to a status board.
A non-transitory computer readable storage device storing data instructions, which when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
- receive a patient identifier identifying a patient and a device identifier identifying a patient support device that is supporting the patient;
- correlate the device identifier to the patient identifier;
- receive location data associated with the patient identifier;
- determine a location of the patient support device by correlating the location data to the device identifier;
- and
- transmit the location of the patient support device to a status board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.