US 2023/0141906 A1 · WIRELESS BED LOCATING SYSTEM

Abstract

Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comprise a plurality of beds. The system may further comprise a computing device and a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds. The computing device may associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds. The computing device may make the association based upon status data received from the plurality of beds and the plurality of support surfaces. The support surface and/or bed to be associated may initiate a surface association request. The computing device, in response to the surface association request, may request performance of one or more actions on the bed and/or support surface to be associated to identify the bed and/or support surface from the beds and support surfaces of the healthcare facility.

Claims21

Dependent claims

-20. (canceled)

A patient support system for use in a healthcare facility having a network, the patient support system comprising

a bed having bed control circuitry, a bed ID, a receiver coupled to the bed control circuitry, and a network interface coupled to the bed control circuitry,
a support surface supported on the bed and having support surface control circuitry, the support surface control circuitry being in communication with the bed control circuitry and being configured to transmit surface status data to the bed control circuitry, and
a location transmitter spaced from the bed and spaced from the support surface, the location transmitter having a location ID that is wirelessly transmitted from the location transmitter to the bed control circuitry via the receiver of the bed,
wherein the bed control circuitry is configured to wirelessly transmit the bed ID, the surface status data received from the support surface control circuitry, and the location ID from the bed via the network interface such that the surface status data is wirelessly transmitted to the network via the bed control circuitry and the network interface of the bed.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/150,910Filed 6 Jan 2023

Priority

29 Aug 2007

Published

11 May 2023

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G16H 40/63
For the operation of medical equipment or devices: for local operation
A61G 12/00
Accommodation for nursing
G06Q 50/22
Services: social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
G16H 40/20
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or…:…

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