MONITORING APPARATUS

• US 20140174213A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hiromitsu Inoue, Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hiromitsu Inoue, Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Naofumi, Suzuki, Katsuyoshi, Okuno, Shinya, Inoue, Hiromitsu
• Application Number:
  US14/136,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20140174213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/865.8
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus includes: a storing section which is configured to store identification information for identifying the own apparatus from another monitoring apparatus; and a notifying section which is configured to output the identification information together with notification information indicating that an object to be monitored satisfies a predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A monitoring apparatus comprising:

a storing section which is configured to store identification information for identifying the own apparatus from another monitoring apparatus; and

a notifying section which is configured to output the identification information together with notification information indicating that an object to be monitored satisfies a predetermined condition.

2. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the identification information is output as at least sound information.

3. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the identification information includes at least one of an apparatus ID identifying the own apparatus and an installation position of the own apparatus.

4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an information acquiring section which is configured to acquire biological information of a patient which is the object to be monitored, wherein

the installation position is indicated by at least one of a ward number, a bed number, a position of a bed in a ward, a patient ID, and a name of a patient.

5. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a displaying section which, also when the notification information is not output, is configured to display the identification information.

6. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the identification information which is displayed on the displaying section identifies the own apparatus from the another monitoring apparatus, by means of at least one of a character, a symbol, and a color.

7. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an inputting section through which the identification information is input, wherein

the storing section updatably stores the identification information.