PATIENT ALERT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Abstract
A patient alert management system includes a remote alert monitor at a location, an alert management and reporting server, and a portable communications device. The remote alert monitor generates an alert in response to an internal patient care timer or receiving an alert from a patient care device at the location of the remote alert monitor and communicates the alert to the alert management and reporting server. The alert management and reporting server sends a message to the portable communications device including a description of the alert and the location. The portable communications device displays the description and location to a caregiver. The caregiver goes to the location and cancels the alert via the remote alert monitor. The remote alert monitor sends an alert cancellation to the alert management and reporting server in the alert management and reporting server cancels the alert in response to receiving the alert cancellation.
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93 Claims
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77. A display for use in a patient alert management system comprising:
a screen operable to display a dynamic table of active alerts, the dynamic table of active alerts comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising; a description identifying a cause of an alert corresponding to the entry or an action to be taken in response to the alert corresponding to the entry; a location associated with the alert corresponding to the entry; and an elapsed time associated with the entry. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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87. A patient alert management system comprising:
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a remote alert monitor operable to communicate an alert; an alert management and reporting server operably coupled to the remote alert monitor and operable to receive the alert communicated by the remote alert monitor and to send a message comprising the alert and a location linked to the alert to a portable communications device identifier linked to the location in response to receiving the alert from the remote alert monitor, or at least one client computing device operable to receive information from health care staff; and a portable communications device operable to; receive the message sent to the portable communications device identifier; display the received alert and location to a user of the portable communications device; receive an acknowledgement from the user; and communicate the received acknowledgement to the alert management and reporting server. - View Dependent Claims (88)
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89. A patient alert management system comprising:
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a remote alert monitor operable to; communicate an alert; receive an alert cancellation from a caregiver at a location of the remote alert monitor, and communicate the received alert cancellation; an alert management and reporting server operably coupled to the remote alert monitor, the alert management and reporting server operable to; receive the alert provided by the remote alert monitor, send a message comprising the alert and a location linked to the alert to a portable communications device identifier linked to the location in response to receiving the alert from the remote alert monitor, receive the alert cancellation from the remote alert monitor, and cancel the alert in response to receiving the alert cancellation from the remote alert monitor; and a portable communications device operably coupled to the alert management and reporting server, the portable communications device operable to receive the message sent to the portable communications device identifier and to display the received alert and location to a user of the portable communications device. - View Dependent Claims (90)
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91. A method of managing alerts in a patient alert management system that includes a remote alert monitor associated with a location and an alert management and reporting server, the method comprising:
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receiving an alert communicated to the remote alert monitor; communicating the alert and the location from a remote alert monitor to the alert management and reporting server; displaying a description of the alert and the location associated with the remote alert monitor to a caregiver; receiving input from the caregiver at the remote alert monitor via a remote alert monitor user interface; communicating an alert cancellation from the remote alert monitor to the alert management and reporting server in response to receiving the input from the caregiver at the remote alert monitor; and canceling the alert in the alert management and reporting server in response to receiving the alert cancellation from the remote alert monitor at the alert management and reporting server. - View Dependent Claims (92, 93)
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Specification