Reducing disruption during medication administration
AssigneeCerner Innovation, Inc.
InventorsStephanie Palmer Bechtel, Mark Nolte
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Abstract
Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input indicating that the medication-administration process has been initiated is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of settings is optimized to facilitate completion medication-administration process.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having embodied thereon computer-useable instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for automatically and without human intervention transitioning a patient's clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process, the method comprising:
- presenting the first scene in the clinical care room, the clinical care room having one or more zones comprising a clinician zone, a patient zone and a family zone, and the first scene being associated with a first group of settings for components within the one or more zones, the components comprising at least a patient bed in the patient zone;
- automatically and without human intervention receiving an input from a medication dispensing station indicating that a clinician has initiated a medication-administration process for the patient in the clinical care room, wherein the input is received upon the clinician retrieving medication(s) associated with the patient from the medication dispensing station;
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- incident to receiving the input that the medication-administration process has been initiated, automatically and without human intervention transitioning to a second scene in the patient zone to facilitate the completion of the medication-administration process, wherein transitioning to the second scene in the patient zone comprises implementing a second group of settings for the components within the one or more zones including implementing a second group of settings for the patient bed such that a position of the patient bed is modified.
A computerized method carried out by at least one server having at least one processor for performing a method for automatically and without human intervention transitioning a patient's clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process, the method comprising:
- presenting the first scene in the clinical care room, the clinical care room having one or more zones comprising a clinician zone, a patient zone and a family zone, and the first scene being associated with a first group of settings for components within the one or more zones, the components comprising at least a patient bed in the patient zone;
- automatically and without human intervention receiving an input from a medication dispensing station indicating that a clinician has initiated a medication-administration process for the patient in the clinical care room, wherein the input is received upon the clinician retrieving medication(s) associated with the patient from the medication dispensing station;
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- incident to receiving the input that the medication-administration process has been initiated, automatically and without human intervention transitioning to a second scene in the patient zone to facilitate the completion of the medication-administration process, wherein transitioning to the second scene in the patient zone comprises implementing a second group of settings for the components within the one or more zones including implementing a second group of settings for the patient bed such that a position of the patient bed is modified.
A system for automatically and without human intervention transitioning a patient's clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process, the system comprising:
- a computing device associated with the clinical care room, the computing device having one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media;
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- a data store coupled with the computing device,
- wherein the computing device:
- presents the first scene in the clinical care room, the clinical care room having one or more zones comprising a clinician zone, a patient zone and a family zone, and the first scene being associated with a first group of settings for components within the one or more zones, the components comprising at least a patient bed in the patient zone;
- automatically and without human intervention receives an input from a medication dispensing station indicating that a clinician has initiated a medication-administration process for the patient in the clinical care room, wherein the input is received upon the clinician retrieving medication(s) associated with the patient from the medication dispensing station;
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- incident to receiving the input that the medication-administration process has been initiated, automatically and without human intervention transitions to a second scene in the patient zone to facilitate the completion of the medication-administration process, wherein transitioning to the second scene in the patient zone comprises implementing a second group of settings for the components within the one or more zones including implementing a second group of settings for the patient bed such that a position of the patient bed is modified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.