Visual display of room information

• US 9,710,601 B1
• Filed: 06/19/2015
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Nacey, Gene E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kanaan, Maroun
• Application Number:
  US14/745,362
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An embodiment provides a method of graphically displaying room information, including: displaying, on an electronic device, a matrix having a plurality of cells therein, at least one cell displaying hospital room information regarding room availability and patient occupancy in the room; said matrix displaying the plurality of cells in column form; and displaying, responsive to a user interaction with a cell in the matrix of a patient occupied hospital room, an overlay window having secondary room status information therein comprising patient specific information regarding the status of the hospital room.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform a method of displaying a graphical user interface on an electronic device, the method comprising:

providing data for displaying, as part of the graphical user interface, an arrangement of a plurality of visual elements representing a plurality of rooms in a facility, a first visual element of the plurality of visual elements providing information for a first room in the facility, the information including a bed availability indication of the first room;

receiving, from an input device in communication with the one or more processors, an input indicative of a selection of the first visual element; and

responsive to the received input, providing data for displaying a window having secondary bed status information.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of visual elements is adapted to display the secondary bed status information associated with at least one attribute of the visual element.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the bed availability indication of the first room includes an occupancy indication of a registered occupant of the first room.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the bed availability indication of the first room includes one or more of an occupied status, an available status, a clean status, a dirty status, a cleaning in progress status, a blocked status, or an unavailable status.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of rooms include at least one of a hospital room, a hotel room, or a dormitory room.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first visual element includes at least one of a depiction of a bed in the first room, or an indication of whether a bed within the first room is being cleaned.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first visual element indicates whether a bed in the first room is unoccupied or occupied.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the first room is a hospital room, and the secondary bed status information includes occupant specific information.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the occupant specific information includes one or more of a patient pending discharge status, a patient pending transfer status, or a patient confirmed discharge status.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of visual elements comprises at least three portions.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the at least three portions include:

a first portion displaying a room number;

a second portion displaying current status of a bed within a room associated with the visual element; and

a third portion containing one or more user defined attributes.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein a first group of the plurality of visual elements are associated with a patient care unit, and wherein the provided data includes data for displaying at least one of a number of staffed beds, a reserved capacity of the patient care unit, a number of assigned beds, or a census now number.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the occupant specific information includes occupant specific bed status information.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the occupant specific bed status information comprises impending bed availability information derived from the occupant specific bed status information.

15. A system for displaying a graphical user interface, comprising:

a memory having stored instructions; and

at least one processor in communication with the memory, an electronic display, and an input device,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the stored instructions to;

provide data for displaying, as part of a graphical user interface displayed on the electronic display, an arrangement of a plurality of visual elements representing a plurality of rooms in a facility, a first visual element of the plurality of visual elements providing information for a first room in the facility, the information including a bed availability indication of the first room;

receive, from the input device, an input indicative of a selection of the first visual element; and

responsive to the received input, provide data for displaying a window having secondary bed status information including occupant specific information.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the plurality of rooms include at least one of a hospital room, a hotel room, or a dormitory room.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first visual element includes at least one of a depiction of a bed in the first room, or an indication of whether a bed within the first room is being cleaned.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first visual element indicates whether a bed in the first room is unoccupied or occupied.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the first room is a hospital room, and the occupant specific information includes one or more of a patient pending discharge status, a patient pending transfer status, or a patient confirmed discharge status.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the bed availability indication of the first room includes one or more of an occupied status, an available status, a clean status, a dirty status, a cleaning in progress status, a blocked status, or an unavailable status.