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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88 Claims
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72. An apparatus for modifying and graphically displaying a facility'"'"'s bed management and patient status information, the apparatus comprising:
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(a) a transportable display;
(b) an arrangement for producing a plurality of data cells for being viewed on the display, the cells having a plurality of modifiable attributes simultaneously relating to;
(i) bed management information, including at least one of bed occupancy and bed availability; and
(ii) patient status information; and
(c) a controller which modifies at least one of the attributes of at least one of the cells to convey said bed management and patient status information. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78)
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79. A method of modifying and simultaneously graphically displaying both bed management and patient status, the method comprising the step of displaying a plurality of data cells, the cells having a plurality of modifiable attributes, wherein at least one of the attributes of at least one of the cells is modified to convey information related to:
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(a) bed management information including at least one of bed occupancy and bed availability; and
(b) patient status information. - View Dependent Claims (80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
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88. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for the visual presentation and user modification of information related to bed management and patient placement information, the method comprising the steps of:
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displaying a matrix;
displaying a plurality of cells within said matrix;
displaying a plurality of icons within said plurality of cells;
displaying at least one bed icon corresponding to information related to at least one hospital bed and having modifiable attributes;
modifying the attributes of said bed icon to convey information about the status of the hospital bed including at least one of bed occupancy and bed availability;
displaying at least one patient icon corresponding to information related to patient status and having modifiable attributes; and
modifying the attributes of said patient icon to convey information about said patient status.
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