Method and Apparatus for Physician Location Tracking
First Claim
1. A medical communication system configured to track a location of one or more physicians, the system comprising:
- one or more client devices comprising a display, memory containing machine readable code, and a processor configured to execute the machine readable code, the machine readable code configured to;
accept location data control settings from a physician, wherein the location data control settings determine if the client device transmits location data;
activate or deactivate generation of location data according to the location data control settings;
responsive to the location data control settings, transmitting location data to a server, the location data providing at least one aspect of location information of the client device;
one or more servers comprising one or more memory devices storing machine readable code and a processor configured to execute machine readable code, the machine readable code configured to;
receive the location data from two or more client devices;
store the location data in one or more memory devices, the location information indicating at least one aspect of location of the two or more client devices; and
associate the location information with a physician.
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Abstract
A medical personal location tracking system provides efficient physician location reporting based on physician client device location. The medical communication system permits physicians to define location tracking control settings to control when and where the client device sends location data to a server and database. Subject to the location tracking control settings, the location tracking system provides location updates for the physicians so that requestors that wish to contact the physicians or know the location of one or more physicians can access the server to obtain location data. To obtain medical assistance to a medical emergency, an emergency alert may be generated and sent to physicians within a defined geographic area. Upon receipt by a physician, a physician may accept the emergency alert and travel to the medical emergency and be provided updates regarding the medical emergency. The person generating the emergency alert may track the location of accepting physicians.
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1. A medical communication system configured to track a location of one or more physicians, the system comprising:
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one or more client devices comprising a display, memory containing machine readable code, and a processor configured to execute the machine readable code, the machine readable code configured to; accept location data control settings from a physician, wherein the location data control settings determine if the client device transmits location data; activate or deactivate generation of location data according to the location data control settings; responsive to the location data control settings, transmitting location data to a server, the location data providing at least one aspect of location information of the client device; one or more servers comprising one or more memory devices storing machine readable code and a processor configured to execute machine readable code, the machine readable code configured to; receive the location data from two or more client devices; store the location data in one or more memory devices, the location information indicating at least one aspect of location of the two or more client devices; and associate the location information with a physician. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for requesting physician assistance in response to a medical emergency by a patient comprising:
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evaluating the medical emergency to determine physician specialists required to provide treatment to the patient having the medical emergency; accessing a monitoring station and entering the physician specialists required to provide treatment to the patient; sending emergency alert through a communication system to one or more client devices having specialist settings which match the physician specialist required to provide treatment to the patient; receiving one or more acceptances from one or more responding physician client devices in response to the emergency alert; responsive to receiving one or more acceptances, sending a cancellation of the emergency alert to one or more non-responding physician client devices. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for determining which physicians are within a geographic region to be performed by a requestor, the method comprising:
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activating machine readable code at a physician client device or a monitoring station; sending a request for physician location data from a requestor at the client device or the monitoring station to a database storing location data indicating the location of one or more physician client devices; responsive to the request for physician location data receiving physician location data subject to one or more limitations on location data access from the database; viewing the physician location data on the client device or the monitoring station to determine which physicians are within the geographic region. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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