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Patient care and communication system

  • US 5,594,786 A
  • Filed: 02/28/1994
  • Issued: 01/14/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A patient care and communication system which comprises:

  • a central station having means for facilitating visual and data communications relating to patient care; and

    a plurality of remote stations linked to said central station and having a processor for facilitating visual and data communications relating to patient care and having a display for displaying said visual communications; and

    a private branch exchange connected to a telephone exchange and to a plurality of telephones for facilitating telephone communication between said telephones and said telephone exchange;

    wherein said central station facilitates said visual and data communications between said plurality of remote stations, and includes means for determining which of said plurality of remote stations are transmitting said visual and data communications and which of said plurality of remote stations are to receive said visual and data communications, and wherein said central station further includes means for establishing a communication link between said transmitting stations and said receiving stations;

    wherein each of said plurality of remote stations includes telephone circuitry connected to said private-branch exchange for facilitating telephone communication, each of said plurality of remote stations further includes a sensor for sensing energy radiated from portable transmitter units, the radiated energy includes respective identification signals associated with each of said transmitter units wherein at least a portion of said plurality of remote stations are configured and adapted for association in a group network such that predefined visual and data signal communications are transmitted to each remote station in the group by said central station and audio communications are transmitted by said private-branch exchange.

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