SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENTING PATIENT PROCEDURES
First Claim
1. A surveillance system for documenting patient procedures comprising:
- a surveillance camera for capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area;
a patient procedure remote for detecting a presence of a health care professional proximate to the surveillance area to perform a patient procedure; and
a control system comprising memory and at least one processing unit, the control system configured to;
receive the plurality of video frames from the surveillance camera;
save the plurality of video frames in the memory;
receive an indication of the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area from the patient procedure remote;
based on the reception of the indication, prioritize a first set of video frames of the plurality of video frames that show the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area relative to a second set of video frames of the plurality of video frames, wherein the second set of video frames show routine surveillance of the surveillance area before the indication is received, and wherein the prioritization protects the first set of video frames from overwriting in the memory while allowing the second set to be overwritten.
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Abstract
The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured. A dedicated procedure remote may be provided for receiving manual interactions from HC professionals present for a procedure or, alternatively, the local surveillance sub-system may autonomously interact with a personal security token device possessed by the HC professional. A procedure data file is also created that holds all of the pertinent information concerning the procedure that is known by the local surveillance sub-system. The patient procedure surveillance A/V file is given a higher priority than ordinary surveillance data captured by the local surveillance sub-system and is then copied to a nonvolatile memory.
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20 Claims
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1. A surveillance system for documenting patient procedures comprising:
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a surveillance camera for capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area; a patient procedure remote for detecting a presence of a health care professional proximate to the surveillance area to perform a patient procedure; and a control system comprising memory and at least one processing unit, the control system configured to; receive the plurality of video frames from the surveillance camera; save the plurality of video frames in the memory; receive an indication of the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area from the patient procedure remote; based on the reception of the indication, prioritize a first set of video frames of the plurality of video frames that show the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area relative to a second set of video frames of the plurality of video frames, wherein the second set of video frames show routine surveillance of the surveillance area before the indication is received, and wherein the prioritization protects the first set of video frames from overwriting in the memory while allowing the second set to be overwritten. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of operating a surveillance system to document patient procedures, the surveillance system comprising a surveillance camera, a patient procedure remote, memory, and at least one processing unit, the method comprising:
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capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area with the surveillance camera; saving the plurality of video frames in the memory; detecting a presence of a health care professional proximate to the surveillance area to perform a patient procedure with the patient procedure remote; and based on the detection of the presence, prioritizing a first set of video frames of the plurality of video frames that show the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area relative to a second set of video frames of the plurality of video frames, wherein the second set of video frames show routine surveillance of the surveillance area before the indication is received, wherein the prioritization protects the first set of video frames from overwriting in the memory while allowing the second set to be overwritten, and wherein capturing, saving, detecting, and prioritizing are performed by the at least one processing unit. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A surveillance system for documenting patient procedures comprising:
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a surveillance camera for capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area; a patient procedure remote for detecting a presence of a health care professional proximate to the surveillance area to perform a patient procedure; and a control system comprising memory and at least one processing unit, the control system configured to; receive the plurality of video frames from the surveillance camera; save the plurality of video frames in the memory; receive an indication of the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area from the patient procedure remote; based on the reception of the indication, determine a beginning of a patient procedure and an end of the patient procedure; and based on the reception of the indication, create a medical procedure data file containing those video frames received between the beginning of the patient procedure and the end of the patient procedure.
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