System and method for documenting patient procedures
First Claim
1. A surveillance device 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 the presence of a healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area and in response, generating a procedure indication; and
a surveillance control device comprising;
a primary nonvolatile memory;
a secondary nonvolatile memory;
medical procedure remote interface for receiving a procedure indication from the patient procedure remote and generating procedure information from the procedure indication;
a video processing unit coupled to the surveillance camera for processing video frames captured by the surveillance camera and storing the processed video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory, and in response to receiving procedure information from the medical procedure remote interface, attaching at least some of the procedure information to the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory and copying the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory to the secondary nonvolatile memory;
a network controller coupled to a healthcare facility distribution network for obtaining processed video frames from the primary nonvolatile memory and transmitting the processed video frames across the healthcare facility distribution network; and
wherein the patient procedure remote includes a legacy interface for receiving generic manual interactions from a healthcare professional that may be correlated to a patient procedure.
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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 that is separate from the primary memory of the surveillance sub-system. The local surveillance sub-system captures surveillance A/V data that is copied to the nonvolatile memory until the system senses that the procedure has ended, when an end-of-procedure message is transmitted across the HCF distribution network. The corresponding patient medical procedure surveillance A/V file resides in a local nonvolatile memory until it can be downloaded to a central storage at the healthcare facility.
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20 Claims
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1. A surveillance device 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 the presence of a healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area and in response, generating a procedure indication; and a surveillance control device comprising; a primary nonvolatile memory;
a secondary nonvolatile memory;medical procedure remote interface for receiving a procedure indication from the patient procedure remote and generating procedure information from the procedure indication; a video processing unit coupled to the surveillance camera for processing video frames captured by the surveillance camera and storing the processed video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory, and in response to receiving procedure information from the medical procedure remote interface, attaching at least some of the procedure information to the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory and copying the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory to the secondary nonvolatile memory; a network controller coupled to a healthcare facility distribution network for obtaining processed video frames from the primary nonvolatile memory and transmitting the processed video frames across the healthcare facility distribution network; and wherein the patient procedure remote includes a legacy interface for receiving generic manual interactions from a healthcare professional that may be correlated to a patient procedure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for documenting patient procedures in a surveillance device, where in the surveillance device comprising a surveillance camera, a patient procedure remote, a surveillance control device comprising a primary nonvolatile memory, a secondary nonvolatile memory, a medical procedure remote interface, a video processing unit, a network controller coupled to a healthcare facility distribution network, said method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of video frames from the surveillance camera; storing each of the plurality of video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory; transmitting the at least some of the video frames across the healthcare facility distribution network; detecting a presence of a healthcare professional proximate to a surveillance area; receiving a plurality of subsequent video frames from the surveillance camera; delineating each of the plurality of subsequent video frames as procedure documentation video frames, the delineating including prioritizing each of the plurality of procedure documentation video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory; storing the plurality of procedure documentation video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory; copying the plurality of procedure documentation video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory to the secondary memory; and transmitting at least some of the plurality of procedure documentation video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory across the healthcare facility distribution network. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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