ENTERPRISE-WIDE HOSPITAL BED MANAGEMENTDASHBOARD SYSTEM
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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/census control dashboard (BMD) system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The BMD 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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9. A method for graphically displaying information relating to locations in a health care facility at which patients are placed, comprising the steps of:
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(a) on an ongoing basis, receiving messages from a computer system of the health care facility and updating a database with information extracted from the messages, which information pertains to the patients and the locations for patient placement in the health care facility, whereby information about patients and locations for patient placement is maintained on an ongoing basis in the database;
(b) accessing the database and, based thereon, displaying a graphical representation of a plurality of locations for patient placement in the health care environment which graphical representation visually includes representations of at least a portion of the information about patients and locations for patient placement that is maintained in the database. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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