Use of location awareness to detect potentially supsicious motion or presence of equipment in a healthcare environment
First Claim
1. A method of detecting potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment, the piece of equipment being associated with a first wirelessly detectable tag, said method comprising:
- receiving data regarding the first wirelessly detectable tag;
receiving data regarding at least one second wirelessly detectable tag, each one of the at least one second wirelessly detectable tag being associated with a respective authorized user of the piece of equipment;
tracking a location of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time based at least in part on the data regarding the first wirelessly detectable tag;
tracking a respective location of each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time based at least in part on the data regarding the at least one second wirelessly detectable tag;
monitoring a respective distance between the piece of equipment and each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment over time, based at least in part on the location of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time and the respective location of each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time; and
responsive to;
the respective distance between the piece of equipment and each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment exceeding a predetermined distance; and
the piece of equipment being in motion, concluding that the piece of equipment is exhibiting potentially suspicious motion.
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Abstract
A system for detecting potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment. The system comprises a first functional entity adapted to determine a set of authorized clinicians associated with the piece of equipment; a second functional entity adapted to determine, based at least in part on data regarding wirelessly detectable tags associated with the authorized clinicians and the piece of equipment, when the piece of equipment is in motion and satisfies a remoteness condition with respect to a subset of the authorized clinicians; and a third functional entity adapted to signal potentially suspicious motion of the piece of equipment in response to the piece of equipment being in motion and satisfying the remoteness condition with respect to the subset of the authorized clinicians. In this way, it may be possible to thwart an attempted theft of equipment.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of detecting potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment, the piece of equipment being associated with a first wirelessly detectable tag, said method comprising:
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receiving data regarding the first wirelessly detectable tag;
receiving data regarding at least one second wirelessly detectable tag, each one of the at least one second wirelessly detectable tag being associated with a respective authorized user of the piece of equipment;
tracking a location of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time based at least in part on the data regarding the first wirelessly detectable tag;
tracking a respective location of each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time based at least in part on the data regarding the at least one second wirelessly detectable tag;
monitoring a respective distance between the piece of equipment and each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment over time, based at least in part on the location of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time and the respective location of each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment over time; and
responsive to;
the respective distance between the piece of equipment and each respective authorized user of the piece of equipment exceeding a predetermined distance; and
the piece of equipment being in motion, concluding that the piece of equipment is exhibiting potentially suspicious motion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of monitoring a piece of equipment located in a healthcare establishment, said method comprising:
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receiving data regarding a wirelessly detectable tag associated with the piece of equipment;
obtaining an indication of at least one area of the healthcare establishment in which the piece of equipment is not allowed to be located;
determining a location of the piece of equipment within the healthcare establishment based at least in part on the data regarding the wirelessly detectable tag;
determining whether the location of the piece of equipment appears in one of the at least one area of the healthcare establishment in which the piece of equipment is not allowed to be located;
responsive to determining that the location of the piece of equipment appears in one of the at least one area of the healthcare establishment in which the piece of equipment is not allowed to be located, performing an action to indicate that the piece of equipment is located in an area of the healthcare establishment in which the piece of equipment is not allowed to be located.
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20. A system for detecting potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment, said system comprising:
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a first functional entity adapted to determine a set of authorized clinicians associated with the piece of equipment;
a second functional entity adapted to determine, based at least in part on data regarding wirelessly detectable tags associated with the authorized clinicians and the piece of equipment, when the piece of equipment is in motion and satisfies a remoteness condition with respect to a subset of the authorized clinicians; and
a third functional entity adapted to signal potentially suspicious motion of the piece of equipment in response to the piece of equipment being in motion and satisfying the remoteness condition with respect to the subset of the authorized clinicians. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A computer-readable storage medium comprising a program element for execution by a computing device to detect potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment, the program element including:
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computer-readable program code for determining a set of authorized clinicians associated with the piece of equipment;
computer-readable program code for determining, based at least in part on data regarding wirelessly detectable tags associated with the authorized clinicians and the piece of equipment, when the piece of equipment is in motion and satisfies a remoteness condition with respect to a subset of the authorized clinicians; and
computer-readable program code for signaling potentially suspicious motion of the piece of equipment in response to the piece of equipment being in motion and satisfying the remoteness condition with respect to every one of the authorized clinicians.
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