NURSE CALL SYSTEM WITH ADDITIONAL STATUS BOARD

• US 20110205062A1
• Filed: 02/24/2010
• 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: Pesot, Whitney W., Vigneron, Katherine J., McCleerey, Michelle E., Saucier, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 8,779,924 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6891 Furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7465 Arrangements for interactive communication between patient and care services, e.g. by using a telephone network telemetry of measured physiological signal A61B5/0002
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/226 with alphanumeric or graphic display means
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A healthcare information system for use in a healthcare facility having patient beds in a plurality of patient rooms is provided. The healthcare information system has a nurse call computer which is located at a nurse'"'"'s station and which is configured to receive nurse calls and/or safety alerts originating from the patient rooms. The healthcare information system has a status board computer which is also located at the nurse'"'"'s station and which is operable to display, for more than one patient, information regarding the patient, staff location, bed data, and room status.

Claims

1. A healthcare information system for use in a healthcare facility having patient beds in a plurality of patient rooms, the healthcare information system comprising

a nurse call computer located at a nurse'"'"'s station, the nurse call computer including a first display screen, the nurse call computer being configured to receive nurse calls originating from the patient rooms and to display information about the nurse calls on the first display screen,

a plurality of interface units, each interface unit being located in an associated patient room, each interface unit being configured to receive bed data that pertains to an associated patient bed, each interface unit being communicatively coupled to the nurse call computer, and

a status board computer also located at the nurse'"'"'s station, the status board computer being communicatively coupled to the plurality of interface units, the status board computer comprising a second display screen that is operable in a first mode to display, for more than one patient, information regarding the patient, staff location, bed data, and room status.

2. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen, when being operated in the first mode, displays for more than one patient graphical indicia indicating the position of multiple bed siderails.

3. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen, when being operated in the first mode, displays for more than one patient graphical indicia indicating whether a bed exit alarm is activated.

4. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen, when being operated in the first mode, displays for more than one patient a timer indicating the amount of time that has elapsed since a caregiver has last entered each of the rooms of the more than one patient.

5. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen, when being operated in the first mode, displays for more than one patient head of bed angle data.

6. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the status board computer is communicatively coupled to the plurality of interface units via a network switch.

7. The healthcare information system of claim 6, wherein the status board computer is communicatively coupled to the plurality of interface units via a Power over Ethernet (PoE) switch.

8. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the status computer and the nurse call computer are communicatively coupled to the plurality of interface units via a Power over Ethernet (PoE) switch.

9. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display a safety alert history for a selected one of the patients.

10. The healthcare information system of claim 9, wherein the safety alert history includes a date and a time at which any siderails of the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients has been lowered.

11. The healthcare information system of claim 9, wherein the safety alert history includes a date and a time at which any bed exit alerts from the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients has been generated.

12. The healthcare information system of claim 9, wherein the safety alert history includes a date and a time at which a caster brake of the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients has been released.

13. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display a chair mode history for a selected one of the patients to show a date and a time during which the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients has been in a chair position.

14. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display a continuous lateral rotation therapy (CLRT) history for a selected one of the patients to show a date and a time during which the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients was operated in a CLRT mode.

15. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display a percussion and vibration therapy (P-V) history for a selected one of the patients to show a date and a time during which the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients was operated in one or more of a percussion mode and a vibration mode.

16. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display a weight history for a selected one of the patients to show a date, a time, and a weight reading made by a scale system of the patient bed associated with the selected one of the patients.

17. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen when operating in the first mode shows information regarding those patients only for whom an alert or nurse call has been generated.

18. The healthcare information system of claim 17, wherein for each patient for whom an alert or nurse call has been generated, the second display screen shows an alert/call type and an elapsed time since the alert or nurse call was generated.

19. The healthcare information system of claim 18, wherein the alert/call type comprises one of a safety alert call type, a normal call type, and a code blue call type.

20. The healthcare information system of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is operable in a second mode to display history information including at least one of a safety alert history, a chair mode history, a continuous lateral rotation therapy (CLRT) history, a percussion and vibration therapy (P-V) history, and a weight history;

the bed status computer begins gathering the history information for each patient in response to the bed status computer receiving admission information from an Admission Discharge and Transfer (ADT) system; and

the bed status computer terminates gathering the history information for each patient in response to the bed status computer receiving discharge information from the ADT system.