TRACPOINT™ RULES-BASED TELEMATICS PATIENT CARE LOCATION SYSTEM

• US 20130321145A1
• Filed: 06/04/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Heppenheimer, Ronald Ranieri
• Original Assignee: Robert Heppenheimer, Ronald Ranieri
• Inventors: Ranieri, Ronald, Heppenheimer, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/487,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20130321145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• 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 rules engine based telematics patient care locationing system called TracPoint™, for use in hospitals and healthcare congregate residency locations. The specific telematics e-health patient care software utilizes a rule based logic that combines RFID locationing information with preset location, time or relationship based rules (or combinations thereof) to monitor and automatically notify caregivers upon the violation of one or more specific or general rules. A rules engine applies selected rules stored in the data base to individual tags worn by people or applied to objects, to produce an output based on the individualized rule set for that specific tag, triggering a notification sequence that can include preprogrammed notifications via email, text or audible alerts when the specific parameters of the applied rule is violated. The tracking of the rules is in real time against the second by second location data provided by the RFID readers located throughout an area.

Claims

1. An interminable and non-compromising TracPoint™

rules engine based hospital or healthcare congregate facility patient, staff, and assets location, monitoring, safety and security on-site or remote off-site administrative and caregiver monitoring and battery-less and wireless RFID transmission system means and GPS receiver means comprising;

at least one on-site computer system means with high speed internet access means or a plurality of computer means, each with high speed internet access means;

at least one RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means in communication with said on-site computer, or a plurality of RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means all in communication with said On-site computer; and

whereby said RF wireless concentrator relay interface means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility; and

at least one RF wireless transceiver reader means, or a plurality of RF wireless transceiver reader means that are in communication with said on-site computer through said RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means, or plurality of RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means and in communication with each other reader means or plurality of RF wireless transceiver reader means; and

whereby said RF wireless reader means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility; and

at least one wearable non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient identification patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver tag means, or a plurality of wearable non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient identification patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver tag means that are in communication with said computer through said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver reader means, or a plurality of patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver reader means and said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means, or plurality of patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay means; and

whereby said wearable non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient identification patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver tag means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility; and

a custom software rules engine based program that controls all action and interaction with said on-site or remote off-site computer system with high speed internet access, or a plurality of on-site or remote off-site computers, each with high speed internet access; and

a patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless concentrator interface means, or plurality of patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless concentrator interface means and all said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver means comprising;

an RF wireless reader or a plurality of RF wireless transceiver readers; and

whereby said RF wireless transceiver reader means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility; and

a wearable non-compromising patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient identification tag means or a plurality of wearable non-compromising patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient identification tag means; and

whereby said wearable non-compromising home or congregate facility resident-patient identification patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver tag means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility; and

all of which are in communication with said hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient and continuously monitoring all of said hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient, or a plurality of home or congregate facility resident-patients movement caregiver staff, and assets in an omni-directional volume space either internal to a preferred designated perimeter environment or external to a preferred designated perimeter environment; and

all of which are patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wirelessly in communication with a GPS for coordinates recognition and reporting; and

a wearable non-compromising patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver on site caregiver identification tag means or a plurality of wearable non-compromising patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver on site caregiver identification tag means; and

whereby said wearable non-compromising patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver on-site caregiver identification tag means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

all of which are in communication with said on-site caregiver and continuously monitoring all of said on-site caregiver, or a plurality of on-site caregivers movement in an omni-directional volume space either internal to a preferred designated perimeter environment or external to a preferred designated perimeter environment;

all of which are patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wirelessly in communication with a GPS for coordinates recognition and reporting.

2. The non-compromising home or congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1,

wherein an interminable logical and systemic procedure rules engine methodology for a non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system comprising;

a custom proprietary rules engine based software-firmware embodiment;

a GPS transceiver embedded in each patient wristband tag means for instant location and means of monitoring and announcing said instant location;

a GPS transceiver embedded in each caregiver RF wireless transceiver tag means for instant location and means of monitoring and announcing said instant location.

3. The non-compromising home or congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein an attached and secured adjustable wrist or ankle band that is applied around the entire circumference of a limb such as a wrist or ankle comprising;

an adjustable fastening means; and

an embedded wire means that runs all throughout said adjustable band in a methodology means of surrounding the inner perimeter of said band so as to provide a closed loop in cooperation with a circuitous path for electrical current to pass; and

is connected to an attached patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver tag means with a microcontroller embodiment means with at least one input and output port or a plurality of input and output ports for the purpose of providing;

an interminable and non-compromising logic state, where said logic state is changed by action of said embedded wire is connected to a digital input/output pin of said microcontroller; and

said microcontroller applies a logic level to one side of said embedded wire and verifies that it appears on the other side of said embedded wire; and

said electrical configuration is such that there is no current flowing through said embedded wire when said microcontroller is asleep; and

this action is established to conserve battery life; and

If said embedded wire is cut or broken for any reason by said patient or any other personage or accidental situation then;

said microcontroller turns on tag of patient wristband patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver to transmit;

an alert signal throughout said designated field strength mesh zones defined;

internal (indoors) and external (outdoors); and

a procedure of communicating with said family portal; and

said family portal being in instant communications with said remote administration portal via high speed internet access; and

said administration making a decision to alert said designated remote guardian caregiver or a plurality of said designated remote guardian caregivers.

4. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver reader means is electrically connected to said magnetic proximity door switch means; and

is held in a logic state of true when any said designated door is closed and defined as safe and internal perimeter closed; and

said closed logic condition is maintained by the proximity of a permanent magnetic field means.

5. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein there is established a interminable and non-compromising RF mesh zone network throughout said designated internal volume of patient area;

and

there is established a interminable and non-compromising RF mesh zone network throughout said designated external facility courtyard or recreational volume of patient area;

there is established an interminable and non-compromising RF mesh zone network throughout said designated external facility-grounds volume of patient area.

6. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein there is established a interminable and non-compromising RF mesh zone network throughout said designated volume that is external and remote to said designated internal volume of patient area or designated facility-grounds area.

7. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein a methodology of utilizing a commonality and universality of circuitry for said reader device means or plurality of readers and said concentrator relay device means or plurality of concentrator relay device means for optimum cost effective of said recited system of claim 1.

8. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein a methodology of utilizing a commonality and universality of circuitry for said caregiver patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless tag means or plurality of said caregiver patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless tag means and said patient patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless wristband tag means or plurality of said patient patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless wristband tag means for optimum cost effective of said recited system of claim 1.

9. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, whereby designated caregiver entry and exit voucher information;

and caregiver location information is recorded and stored in said TracPoint™

rules engine based memory high speed internet access computer portal means and said remote administrative rules engine based high speed internet access computer portal means.

10. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, whereby designated remote caregiver or plurality of designated remote caregivers location information and mobile or home phone information is recorded and stored in said TracPoint™

rules engine based high speed internet access computer portal means and said remote TracPoint™

rules engine based administrative high speed internet access computer portal means; and

said information is alerted by said TracPoint™

rules engine based high speed internet access portal means and remote administrative high speed internet access computer portal means.

11. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, whereby it is established a commonality and universality of all system circuitry to be hardware identical;

and software changeable;

and firmware changeable;

in accord to any and all requirements to make optimum;

said present invention as recited in claim 1;

and to optimize system'"'"'s requirements for any and all environs designated as a utility candidate for said present invention.

12. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, whereby an action of all TracPoint™

rules engine based recorded and stored history means of all patient or all plurality of patients activity;

and further action of all caregiver or plurality of caregivers TracPoint™

rules engine based recorded and stored history means of all caregiver activity related to on site functionality;

and further action of all remote caregiver or plurality of remote caregivers recorded and stored TracPoint™

rules engine based history of all activity related to remote caregiving functionality; and

all TracPoint™

rules engine based recorded and stored information be on file with said TracPoint™

rules engine based high speed internet access computer portal means and said TracPoint™

rules engine based remote administrative high speed internet access computer portal means.

13. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein a backhaul methodology means is employed and utilized by TracPoint™

rules engine to evaluate, maintain, and perform any decision making for purposes of providing non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient safety, security, and care receiving from designated caregivers, designated remote caregivers, designated TracPoint™

rules engine based computer portal operatives that have high speed internet access, and designated TracPoint™

rules engine based remote administrative computer portal operatives that have high speed internet access; and

whereby said backhaul methodology means is executed securely and stored in said designated TracPoint™

rules engine based portal, and designated remote administrative portal.

14. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, whereby said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver sensor or transducer means;

is sensor functional and driven or transducer functional and driven; and

whereby said designated and described sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility.

at least one patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver means, or a plurality of patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver means that are in communication with said computer through said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means, or plurality of patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver concentrator relay interface means and in communication with each other patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless transceiver reader means or plurality of RF wireless transceiver reader means; and

whereby said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less RF wireless reader means is sensor or transducer driven; and

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert RF energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert mechanical vibration, motion, and any changes in motion energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert thermal energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert chemical energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert light energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert electrical capacitance into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert electrical inductive coupling energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert human vital sign energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert animal vital sign energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility;

or

whereby said sensor or transducer is of generic or specific type to convert inanimate object information energy into digital or analogue electrical energy, for any purpose and utility.

15. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein said patient worn RF wireless transceiver tags are powered and triggered by said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less power source device means.

16. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein said caregiver staff worn RF wireless transceiver tags are powered and triggered by said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less power source device means.

17. The non-compromising hospital or healthcare congregate facility resident-patient location, on-site caregiver monitoring and transmission system means as recited in claim 1, wherein said assets supplied RF wireless transceiver tags are powered and triggered by said patent pending or patented DEAK™

battery-less power source device means.