PATIENT ROOM AND BED MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM

• US 20110205061A1
• Filed: 02/19/2010
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hill-Rom Services Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hill-Rom Services Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Wilson, Bradley T., Pesot, Whitney W., Vigneron, Katherine J., McCleerey, Michelle E., Saucier, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 8,334,777 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23043 Remote and local control panel, programming unit, switch
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23044 Transparent overlay with touch sensors, put over display panel, select function
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2608 Hospital bed
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

A patient room and bed management apparatus and system detects changes in a patient'"'"'s status and updates the status of a room of a healthcare facility associated with the patient. The system may receive the patient status information from a remote system, such as a health information system used by a healthcare facility. The patient room and bed management system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a bed in the patient'"'"'s room. The system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a caregiver or other staff person of the healthcare facility. The actions to be performed by the bed or staff person may be triggered by a change in status of the patient, the patient'"'"'s bed, or the patient'"'"'s room. The actions to be performed may be electronically communicated to the bed, to one or more remote displays, and/or to communication devices associated with staff persons of the healthcare facility.

The patient room and bed management apparatus and system may include a user interface module that is not mounted to the patient'"'"'s bed. A list of actions to be performed by a staff person in the patient'"'"'s room, the status of the patient, the status of the patient'"'"'s room, and/or the status of the patient'"'"'s bed, may be displayed and updated electronically at the user interface module. The user interface module may also provide bed controls that allow a staff person to initiate an electronically-controlled function of the bed from the user interface module.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A bed system comprising

a bed having a bed identifier uniquely identifying the bed to the bed system, a bed network, and a bed function controller configured to control a plurality of electronically-controllable functions of the bed by sending control signals over the bed network,

at least one first user control module supported by the bed and operably coupled to the bed network to enable a user to control one or more of the electronically-controllable functions of the bed, and

a second user control module spaced from the at least one first user control module, spaced from the bed, electrically isolated from the bed, and operably coupled to the bed network, the second user control module comprising a housing, at least one input device supported by the housing, a display supported by the housing, memory in which data and computer-executable instructions are stored, and a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions to cause the display to display information about the bed identified by the bed identifier, and send a signal to the bed function controller of the bed identified by the unique identifier to cause the bed function controller to execute an electronically-controlled function selected at the input device of the second user control module.

18. The bed system of claim 17, wherein the second user control module is in data communication with a health information system of a healthcare facility.

19. The bed system of claim 17, wherein the bed comprises a built-in weigh scale and the processor is configured to execute computer-executable instructions to initiate zeroing of the weigh scale.

20. The bed system of claim 17, wherein the bed has first and second bed functions that are electronically controllable via first and second bed controls, respectively, the at least one first user control module is configured to make the first user control available for activation by a user but not the second user control, and the second user control module is configured to make the second user control available for activation by a user.