Managing Patient Bed Assignments and Bed Occupancy in a Health Care Facility
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Abstract
An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The bed management system is an easy-to-use business intelligence application that is designed to allow administrators, clinicians and managers to easily access, analyze and display real-time patient and bed availability information from ancillary information systems, databases and spreadsheets. It enables users to see trends and relationships in hospital (bed) management data directly from their desktop personal computers.
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72. A computer-implemented method for placing a patient in a location of a healthcare facility, comprising:
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(a) maintaining a database, comprising the steps of, (i) storing in a database (A) patient attributes for a plurality of patients, and (B) bed attributes for a plurality of locations of the healthcare facility;
(ii) monitoring a patient admissions/discharge system of the healthcare facility, and (iii) based on said monitoring, updating the data stored in the database; and
(b) while maintaining the database in said step (a), (i) receiving, from a client device using a client-server communication protocol, identification of a patient from the plurality of patients whose patient attributes are stored in the database, and (ii) based on the patient identification received in step (b)(i), matching requirements of the identified patient to available resources of the healthcare facility by comparing patient criteria of the identified patient with bed attributes stored in the database, the patient criteria comprising patient attributes for the identified patient that are stored in the database. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
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