PREEMPTIVE NOTIFICATION OF PATIENT FALL RISK CONDITION
First Claim
1. A method of alerting one or more healthcare workers to a hospital bed properties configuration which elevates a fall risk for a patient, comprising:
- linking a plurality of hospital beds over a network to a healthcare system;
wherein the hospital beds comprise one or more sensors to monitor one or more hospital bed properties, the sensors operative to detect a state of each hospital bed property and to generate a signal indicative of the state of each hospital bed property for transmission over the network to the healthcare system; and
wherein the healthcare system comprises one or more servers each of which have non-transitory computer storage for maintaining at least one patient electronic medical record, for maintaining information relating to a current hospital bed properties configuration received from at least one hospital bed, and for storing computer program logic to assess a patients risk of falling;
creating a fall risk profile for the patient, and using information in the patient'"'"'s fall risk profile to determine a minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient'"'"'s risk of falling;
storing information associated with the patient'"'"'s minimum hospital bed properties configuration in the at least one patient electronic medical record maintained by the healthcare system;
configuring properties of a hospital bed assigned to the patient to comply with the minimum hospital bed properties configuration information stored in the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record;
detecting a current state of the properties associated with the patient hospital bed and sending information indicative of the detected property states over the network to the healthcare system; and
the healthcare system generating and sending an alert over the network to one or more hospital workers indicating an elevated patient fall risk if the computer program logic determines that current hospital bed property configuration status information indicates that the patient is present in the hospital bed and the information does not meet the minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient fall risk.
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Abstract
One or more servers and hospital beds are connected to a healthcare network. At least one of the servers includes an event notification module that operates to receive patient EMR information and patient bed configuration information. The patient EMR information is comprised of a patient fall risk profile. At least one of the patient beds includes sensors that transmit messages which include information about the current bed configuration state to the event notification module. The event notification module uses information included in the patient fall risk profile and current bed configuration information to determine whether a patient is at risk of fall out of their bed, and if the patient is at risk, generates an alert message that is sent to a call station or hospital worker.
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24 Claims
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1. A method of alerting one or more healthcare workers to a hospital bed properties configuration which elevates a fall risk for a patient, comprising:
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linking a plurality of hospital beds over a network to a healthcare system; wherein the hospital beds comprise one or more sensors to monitor one or more hospital bed properties, the sensors operative to detect a state of each hospital bed property and to generate a signal indicative of the state of each hospital bed property for transmission over the network to the healthcare system; and wherein the healthcare system comprises one or more servers each of which have non-transitory computer storage for maintaining at least one patient electronic medical record, for maintaining information relating to a current hospital bed properties configuration received from at least one hospital bed, and for storing computer program logic to assess a patients risk of falling; creating a fall risk profile for the patient, and using information in the patient'"'"'s fall risk profile to determine a minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient'"'"'s risk of falling; storing information associated with the patient'"'"'s minimum hospital bed properties configuration in the at least one patient electronic medical record maintained by the healthcare system; configuring properties of a hospital bed assigned to the patient to comply with the minimum hospital bed properties configuration information stored in the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record; detecting a current state of the properties associated with the patient hospital bed and sending information indicative of the detected property states over the network to the healthcare system; and the healthcare system generating and sending an alert over the network to one or more hospital workers indicating an elevated patient fall risk if the computer program logic determines that current hospital bed property configuration status information indicates that the patient is present in the hospital bed and the information does not meet the minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient fall risk. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of alerting one or more healthcare workers to a hospital bed properties configuration which elevates a fall risk for a patient, comprising:
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linking a plurality of hospital beds over a network to a healthcare system; wherein the hospital beds comprise one or more sensors to monitor one or more hospital bed properties, the sensors operative to detect the state of each hospital bed property and to generate a signal indicative of the state of each hospital bed property for transmission over the network to the healthcare system; and wherein the healthcare system comprises one or more servers each of which have non-transitory computer storage for maintaining at least one patient electronic medical record and for maintaining information relating to a current hospital bed properties configuration received from at least one hospital bed, each of the one or more servers being programmed to assess a patients risk of falling; defining a plurality of generic fall risk types each of which type is indicative of the degree to which a patient is at risk of falling; assigning a set of bed property states to each generic fall risk type, the set of bed property states representing a minimum bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patients risk of falling; creating a fall risk profile for the patient, and assigning, based upon information comprising the patient'"'"'s fall risk profile, an appropriate one of the plurality of the generic fall risk types to the patient and entering the patients generic fall risk type into the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record maintained by the healthcare system; assigning the patient to one of the plurality of the hospital beds and configuring the state of each hospital bed property to be the same as the property states associated with the patient'"'"'s generic fall risk type stored in their electronic medical record; detecting a current state of the properties associated with the patient'"'"'s hospital bed and sending information indicative of the detected property states to the healthcare system; and the healthcare system generating and sending to one or more hospital workers an alert indicating an elevated patient fall risk if the current hospital bed property configuration state information indicates that the patient is present in the hospital bed and the information does not meet the minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient fall risk. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system for alerting one or more healthcare workers to a hospital bed properties configuration which elevates a fall risk for a patient, comprising:
a plurality of hospital beds linked over a network to a healthcare system; wherein at least one of the plurality of hospital beds is configured to monitor the state of one or more hospital bed properties and to transmit information indicative of the properties over the network to the healthcare system; and wherein the healthcare system comprises one or more servers each having non-transitory computer storage for maintaining patient information, current hospital bed properties configuration information, and for storing program logic used to assess the patient fall risk and to send an alert to one or more healthcare workers indicating an elevated patient fall risk if the current hospital bed property configuration state information indicates that the patient is present in the hospital bed and the information does not meet a minimum hospital bed properties configuration necessary to mitigate the patient fall risk.
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