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Caregiver rounding communication system

  • US 9,465,916 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2015
  • Issued: 10/11/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information technology system for a healthcare facility having a real time locating system (RTLS) for tracking locations of a plurality of caregivers within the healthcare facility, the information technology system comprisinga first computer device to keep track of rounding for a plurality of caregivers and to determine whether the caregivers successfully complete their rounds in a timely manner for their assigned patients, a successful round being defined as one in which a caregiver visits an assigned patient within a rounding interval and remains in the patient'"'"'s room for a threshold period of time, anda plurality of graphical displays that are each included in respective portable wireless communication devices, each graphical display being carried by a respective caregiver of the plurality of caregivers, the plurality of graphical displays being in communication with the first computer device, each graphical display being operable to display a list of patients for whom rounds are due and to display reminder messages to the plurality of caregivers relating to rounding, wherein each graphical display of the plurality of graphical displays is operable to show a rounding timer indicating how much time is left within the rounding interval,wherein each graphical display of the plurality of graphical displays is useable by each caregiver to suspend the rounding timer of the respective graphical display in connection with a respective patient leaving the patient'"'"'s room and wherein the rounding timer of the respective graphical display automatically restarts when the respective patient returns to the patient room as sensed by the RTLS.

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