FIELD NURSE NOTIFICATION
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Abstract
A system and method (10) are disclosed for providing home health care to a plurality of home health care patients (12) by utilizing the services of field nurses (14). The system (10) includes at least one centralized programmable processor (16) configured to respond to a field alert request (18) associated with one of the patients (12) by accessing an electronic database (20) for a patient dataset (22) specific to the patient (12) and automatically initiating a field alert in the form of a wireless communications signal (24) transmitting a portion or all of the patient dataset (22) to a wireless communications device 26 assigned to a field nurse (14).
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5. A system for providing home health care utilizing field nurses, the system comprising:
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at least one centralized programmable processor configured to respond to a field alert request associated with one of a plurality of home health care patients by accessing an electronic database for a patient dataset specific to the one of the home health care patients, the electronic database containing patient information for each of the plurality of home health care patients, and automatically initiating a field alert in the form of a wireless communications signal transmitting at least a portion of the patient dataset to a wireless communications device assigned to a field nurse a plurality of hand held, wireless communications devices, each wireless communications device configured to automatically display a patient alert in response to receipt of a field alert initiated by the at least one centralized programmable processor and at least one centralized programmable processor is configured to automatically select a limited number of the plurality of wireless communications devices based on criteria associated with the patient dataset and to direct the field alert specifically to the automatically selected wireless communications devices; and wherein the criteria comprises a home address of the one of the plurality of home health care patients, each of the wireless communications devices is configured to provide a current geographic location, and the at least one centralized programmable processor is configured to automatically direct the wireless communications signal to one or more of the wireless communications devices based on geographic proximities of the current geographic locations to the home address. - View Dependent Claims (4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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6. A system for providing home health care utilizing field nurses, the system comprising:
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at least one centralized programmable processor configured to respond to a field alert request associated with one of a plurality of home health care patients by accessing an electronic database for a patient dataset specific to the one of the home health care patients, the electronic database containing patient information for each of the plurality of home health care patients, and automatically initiating a field alert in the form of a wireless communications signal transmitting at least a portion of the patient dataset to a wireless communications device assigned to a field nurse; and the wireless communications device, and wherein the wireless communications device is configured to transmit a wireless communications signal indicating that the field alert has been accepted by the field nurse assigned to the wireless communications device in response to a manual input by the field nurse.
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17. A method for providing home health care utilizing field nurses, the method comprising the steps of:
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in response to a field alert request associated with one of a plurality of home health care patients, automatically accessing an electronic database for a patient dataset of patient information specific to the one of the plurality of home health care patients, the electronic database containing patient information for each of the plurality of home health care patients, and automatically initiating a field alert in the form of a wireless communications signal transmitting at least a portion of the patient dataset to a wireless communications device assigned to a field nurse, further comprising the step of automatically selecting a wireless communications device from a plurality of wireless communications devices based on geographic proximities between a home address of the patient and the current geographic location of each of the plurality of wireless communications devices. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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