Visual display of room information

• US 9,710,602 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:
  US14/745,374
• 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, a matrix having a plurality of cells arranged in one or more columns, a first cell of the plurality of cells displaying information for a hospital room including a bed availability indication for the hospital room;

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

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

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

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the display of said secondary bed status information is restricted.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the secondary bed status information is displayed solely to one or more authorized users.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the authorization of a user is determined by comparing a password provided by the user against a databank of passwords.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the secondary bed status information includes patient specific information.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the cell depicts a bed.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the cell indicates whether the bed is unoccupied.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the cell indicates whether the bed is occupied.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the cell indicates whether the bed is in stat condition.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the cell indicates whether the bed within the room is being cleaned.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the bed availability indication 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.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the patient specific information includes one or more of a patient pending discharge status, a patient pending transfer status, or a patient confirmed discharge status.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises three levels.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the three levels include:

a first level displaying a room number;

a second level displaying current status of a bed within a room associated with the cell; and

a third level containing one or more user defined attributes.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least one column of cells comprises summary information regarding a patient care unit associated with the at least one column of cells, and wherein the summary information includes 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.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the bed availability indication includes textual information.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the secondary bed status information includes patient specific bed status information.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the patient specific bed status information comprises impending bed availability information derived from the patient specific bed status information.

20. The computer-readable medium of 18, wherein the patient specific bed status information excludes emergency patient condition information.