Visual display of room information

• US 9,830,425 B1
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Nacey, Gene E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kanaan, Maroun
• Application Number:
  US14/832,970
• Time in Patent Office: 830 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 operations for displaying a graphical user interface on an electronic device, the operations comprising:

providing data for displaying, as part of a graphical user interface, a matrix having a plurality of cells arranged in one or more columns, the one or more columns being associated with at least one patient unit or area of a hospital,

wherein

a first cell of the plurality of cells is associated with a hospital bed in a first patient unit or area, the first cell comprising first data organized in multiple sections of information including;

(a) a room number or location of the hospital bed, and

(b) one or more attributes of at least one of the hospital bed, a patient occupying the hospital bed, a type of care associated with the patient, or a level of care required for the patient;

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 that includes second data different from the first data.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes include an isolation bed, a telemetry bed, a bed side terminal bed, isolation care, or telemetry care.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes of the patient occupying the hospital bed include a gender.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first cell includes an icon or a shaded region indicative of a status of the patient or a status of the hospital bed.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the status of the patient includes a real-time status or near real-time status.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the status of the hospital bed 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, a reserved status, or an unavailable status.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the status of the patient includes one or more of a patient pending discharge status, a patient pending transfer status, or a patient confirmed discharge status.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein multiple sections of information include at least two rows.

9. 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.

10. 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 plurality of cells arranged in one or more columns, the one or more columns being associated with at least one patient unit or area of a hospital,

wherein

a first cell of the plurality of cells is associated with a hospital bed in a first patient unit or area, the first cell comprising first data organized in graphical information including;

(a) a room number or location of the hospital bed, and

(b) one or more attributes of at least one of the hospital bed, a patient occupying the hospital bed, a type of care associated with the patient, or a level of care required for the patient;

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 that includes second data different from the first data.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more attributes include an isolation bed, a telemetry bed, a bed side terminal bed, isolation care, or telemetry care.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more attributes of the patient occupying the hospital bed include an identification of the patient.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the first cell includes an icon or a shaded region indicative of a status of the patient or a status of the hospital bed.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the status of the patient includes a real-time status or near real-time status.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the status of the hospital bed 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, a reserved status, or an unavailable status.

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

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of cells comprises three sections.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, 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.