Communications system using a hospital telephony infrastructure to allow establishment of healthcare information sessions at hospital-wide points of care
First Claim
1. A method of installing a communications system in a hospital, the hospital comprising a pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure having a plurality of telephone jacks, said method comprising:
- connecting a plurality of remote modems between respective ones of the telephone jacks of the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure and a plurality of user devices in the hospital;
providing a healthcare information system (HIS) server for supporting healthcare information sessions established with individual ones of the user devices; and
connecting a head-end unit between the HIS server and the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, the head-end unit comprising a plurality of centralized modems for exchanging out-of-telephony-band signals with respective ones of the remote modems over the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure to establish the healthcare information sessions between the HIS server and the individual ones of the user devices.
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Abstract
A communications system, in which a plurality of remote modems communicate over a twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, each remote modem being communicatively coupled to a corresponding subset of user devices. The system also comprises a healthcare information system (HIS) server capable of supporting healthcare information sessions established with individual user devices from the overall set of user devices, the HIS server being connectable to a core hospital network. Finally, the system comprises a head-end unit connected between the HIS server and the telephony infrastructure. The head-end unit comprises a bank of centralized modems operative to exchange out-of-telephony-band signals with respective ones of the remote modems over the telephony infrastructure to permit establishment of healthcare information sessions between the overall set of user devices and the HIS server. In this way, an existing telephony infrastructure in a hospital can be re-used to deliver healthcare information services to the point of care.
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1. A method of installing a communications system in a hospital, the hospital comprising a pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure having a plurality of telephone jacks, said method comprising:
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connecting a plurality of remote modems between respective ones of the telephone jacks of the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure and a plurality of user devices in the hospital; providing a healthcare information system (HIS) server for supporting healthcare information sessions established with individual ones of the user devices; and connecting a head-end unit between the HIS server and the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, the head-end unit comprising a plurality of centralized modems for exchanging out-of-telephony-band signals with respective ones of the remote modems over the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure to establish the healthcare information sessions between the HIS server and the individual ones of the user devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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