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;
receive an indication of the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area from the patient procedure remote;
create a medical procedure data file based on the reception of the indication, the medical procedure data file containing location information, timestamp information, an identity of the healthcare professional, and at least some of the plurality of video frames showing the patient procedure; and
save the medical procedure data file in the memory.
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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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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; receive an indication of the presence of the healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area from the patient procedure remote; create a medical procedure data file based on the reception of the indication, the medical procedure data file containing location information, timestamp information, an identity of the healthcare professional, and at least some of the plurality of video frames showing the patient procedure; and save the medical procedure data file in the memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20)
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11. A method of operating a surveillance system to document patient procedures, the surveillance system comprising a surveillance camera, a medical procedure remote device, memory, and at least one processing unit, the method comprising:
- capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area with the surveillance camera;
the medical procedure remote device detecting a presence of a health care professional proximate to the surveillance area to perform a patient procedure;
creating a medical procedure data file based on the detection of the presence of the health care professional, the medical procedure data file containing location information, timestamp information, an identity of the healthcare professional, and at least some of the plurality of video frames showing the patient procedure; and
saving the medical procedure data file in the memory, wherein detecting, creating, and saving are performed by the at least one processing unit. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area with the surveillance camera;
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