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AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsWilliams F. Collins, Jr., James M. Allen, Keith A. Huster, Carl W. Riley, Patricia A. Glidewell, Irwin J. Vanderpohl, Richard J. Schuman, Benjamin E. Howell, Timothy D. Wildman
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A hospital bed has wireless communication circuitry operable to transmit wirelessly bed status data. A surface supported by the bed has wireless communication circuitry operable to transmit wirelessly surface status data. The wireless communication circuitry of the hospital bed and the wireless communication circuitry of the surface communicate with a network independently. A hospital bed with an integrated surface has wireless communication circuitry operable to transmit wirelessly bed status data and surface status data. The wireless bed status data and the wireless surface status data are received by wireless access points of a network of a healthcare facility.
A hospital bed having a bed frame and wireless communication circuitry operable to transmit bed status data wirelessly to a network and to receive messages wirelessly from the network, the bed having a mattress associated therewith, the bed status data including information regarding at least one feature of the mattress and at least one feature of the bed frame, wherein bed status data received by the network wirelessly from the hospital bed results in a computer device of the network sending a message to control a feature of the bed frame based on a state of the at least one feature of the mattress.
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