HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OPERATION
First Claim
1. An in-patient hospital room having a hospital bed for a hospital patient, comprising:
- means for receiving each of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room in real time audio-visual (AV) media;
means for communicating each of the plurality of views to a communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; and
an in-room user interface (UI) including;
means for receiving and rendering real time AV media communication with the communicant; and
means for requesting the initiation said communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room.
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Abstract
Healthcare facility nurse-patient ratios are minimized by providing patients with in-room devices to request and receive real time audio visual (AV) communications with advocates responsible for the patients'"'"' healthcare. Each device enables the patient to see and hear their assigned advocate, as well as to communicate to the advocate a category of the patient'"'"'s present subjective pain level. While advocates assume communication and coordination responsibilities for non-medical services provided to their assigned patients, they also assume responsibilities on behalf of their assigned patient with nursing staff whose responsibilities will preferably exclude non-medical services but will rather be limited to medical services provided to the advocate'"'"'s assigned patients. Advocate operated work stations can remotely adjust AV and vital site monitoring equipment in the hospital room, thereby enabling the selective seeing and hearing of real time events. Data from these events can be stored in the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record.
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45 Claims
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1. An in-patient hospital room having a hospital bed for a hospital patient, comprising:
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means for receiving each of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room in real time audio-visual (AV) media; means for communicating each of the plurality of views to a communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; and an in-room user interface (UI) including; means for receiving and rendering real time AV media communication with the communicant; and means for requesting the initiation said communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An in-patient hospital room having a hospital bed for a hospital patient and a system to monitor a vital sign of the hospital patient, the in-patient hospital room comprising:
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a remotely adjustable audio-visual (AV) apparatus to capture real time motion for each of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room and to capture real time sound in the in-patient hospital room; and an input and display device with related apparatus to; receive real time AV media communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; receive a subjective hospital patient pain level category; send each of the plurality of views with the subjective hospital patient pain level category to the communicant; and receive input signifying a request for the initiation of the AV media communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A hospital patient monitoring work station comprising:
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means for selectively receiving and rendering a plurality of real time AV feeds from a respective plurality of in-patient hospital rooms in a hospital, each said in-patient hospital room having a hospital patient in a hospital bed; adjustment means, corresponding to each said in-patient hospital room, for the selective receiving and rendering means to select any of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room for the real time AV feed thereof; and means, corresponding to each said in-patient hospital room, for forming and directing real time AV media from a two-way communication with a communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room to a communicant inside the in-patient hospital room; and
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24. A hospital patient monitoring work station for a plurality of in-patient hospital rooms in a hospital, the work station comprising an input and rendering device with related apparatus to selectively:
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direct real time audio-visual (AV) media from a two-way communication with a communicant outside of a selected said in-patient hospital room to a communicant inside the selected said in-patient hospital room; adjust, receive, and render each of a plurality of views of a selected said in-patient hospital room from a respective remotely adjustable AV apparatus that each capture for the selected said in-patient hospital room; real time motion in each said view; and real time sound; receive and render for a selected said in-patient hospital room a request for the two-way communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room via the real time AV feed. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A hospital comprising:
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a plurality of in-patient hospital rooms each having; a hospital bed for a hospital patient; remotely adjustable means for receiving each of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room in real time audio-visual (AV) media; means for communicating each of the plurality of views to a communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; and an in-room user interface (UI) including means for requesting, receiving and rendering real time AV communication of the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room. a hospital patient monitoring work station including; means, corresponding to the remotely adjustable means of each said in-patient hospital room, for selectively receiving and rendering each of the plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room in the real time AV feed; means, corresponding to each said in-patient hospital room, for forming and directing the real time AV media from the communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room to a selected said in-patient hospital room; and means, corresponding to each said in-patient hospital room, for receiving the request from the patient for the communication with the communicant via the real time AV feed; means for facilitating communication between the hospital patient monitoring work station and each said in-patient hospital room. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42)
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37. A hospital comprising:
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a plurality of in-patient hospital rooms each having; a hospital bed for a hospital patient; a remotely adjustable audio-visual (AV) apparatus to capture real time motion for each of a plurality of views of the in-patient hospital room and to capture real time sound in the in-patient hospital room; and an input and display device with related apparatus to; receive input signifying a request for the initiation of a real time AV communication with a communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; and receive and display real time AV media from the communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; a hospital patient monitoring work station including an input and rendering device with related apparatus to selectively; direct real time audio-visual (AV) media from the two-way communication with a selected said communicant outside of a selected said in-patient hospital room to a communicant inside a selected said in-patient hospital room; adjust, receive, and render each of the plurality of views of each of the plurality of in-patient hospital rooms from the respective plurality of the remotely adjustable AV apparatus; and receive and render for each said in-patient hospital room the request for the initiation of the real time AV communication with the communicant outside of the in-patient hospital room; a network facilitating communication between the hospital patient monitoring work station and each said in-patient hospital room. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 43)
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44. A system for monitoring patient well being in a plurality of hospitals each having a plurality of hospital rooms, each hospital room having a hospital bed for a patient, the system comprising:
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means, corresponding to each said hospital room, for; receiving input from the patient requesting a two-way AV communication with an assigned patient care advocate; and rendering the requested AV communication with the assigned patient care advocate; a plurality of a hospital patient monitoring work stations each being operated by one said patient care advocate, each said patient care advocate being assigned to a plurality of said patients, each said work station comprising an input and rendering device with related apparatus to selectively; receive, from the patients assigned to the patient care advocate, the request for the two-way AV communication; and direct, in response to a selected said request received from an assigned said patient, the requested two-way AV communication from between the patient and the patient care advocate for rendering by the corresponding said receiving and rendering means. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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