Use of location awareness to request assistance for a medical event occurring in a healthcare environment
First Claim
1. A method of requesting assistance for a medical event occurring in a healthcare establishment, said method comprising:
- receiving data regarding a location of the medical event within the healthcare establishment;
receiving data regarding a type of the medical event;
receiving data regarding at least one wirelessly detectable tag, each one of the at least one wirelessly detectable tag being associated with a respective one of at least one clinician;
determining a respective location of each one of the at least one clinician within the healthcare establishment based at least in part on the data regarding the at least one wirelessly detectable tag;
identifying at least one particular clinician of the at least one clinician as being eligible to provide assistance for the medical event, based at least in part on the location of the medical event, the type of the medical event, and the respective location of each one of the at least one clinician; and
performing an action to cause requesting of assistance for the medical event from each one of the at least one particular clinician.
25 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method of requesting assistance for a medical event occurring in a hospital. The method comprises receiving data regarding a location of the medical event; receiving data regarding a type of the medical event; receiving data regarding at least one wirelessly detectable tag, each one of the at least one wirelessly detectable tag being associated with a respective one of at least one clinician; determining a location of each clinician within the hospital based at least in part on the data regarding the at least one wirelessly detectable tag; identifying at least one particular clinician as being eligible to provide assistance, based at least in part on the location of the medical event, the type of the medical event, and the respective location of each clinician; and performing an action to cause requesting of assistance for the medical event from each particular clinician.
147 Citations
24 Claims
-
1. A method of requesting assistance for a medical event occurring in a healthcare establishment, said method comprising:
-
receiving data regarding a location of the medical event within the healthcare establishment;
receiving data regarding a type of the medical event;
receiving data regarding at least one wirelessly detectable tag, each one of the at least one wirelessly detectable tag being associated with a respective one of at least one clinician;
determining a respective location of each one of the at least one clinician within the healthcare establishment based at least in part on the data regarding the at least one wirelessly detectable tag;
identifying at least one particular clinician of the at least one clinician as being eligible to provide assistance for the medical event, based at least in part on the location of the medical event, the type of the medical event, and the respective location of each one of the at least one clinician; and
performing an action to cause requesting of assistance for the medical event from each one of the at least one particular clinician. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
-
-
23. A system for requesting assistance for a medical event occurring in a healthcare establishment, said system comprising:
-
a first functional entity adapted to determine a location within the healthcare establishment where the medical event has occurred;
a second functional entity adapted to determine, based at least in part on data regarding wirelessly detectable tags associated with respective clinicians, the locations of the clinicians within the healthcare establishment;
a third functional entity adapted to identify, based at least in part on the locations of the clinicians and the location where the medical event has occurred, at least one clinician eligible to provide assistance for the medical event;
a fourth functional entity adapted to cause assistance for the medical event to be requested from each one of the at least one clinician eligible to provide assistance for the medical event.
-
-
24. A computer-readable storage medium comprising a program element for execution by a computing device to request assistance for a medical event occurring in a healthcare establishment, the program element including:
-
computer-readable program code for determining a location within the healthcare establishment where the medical event has occurred;
computer-readable program code for determining, based at least in part on data regarding wirelessly detectable tags associated with respective clinicians, the locations of the clinicians within the healthcare establishment;
p1 computer-readable program code for identifying, based at least in part on the locations of the clinicians and the location where the medical event has occurred, at least one clinician eligible to provide assistance for the medical event;
computer-readable program code for causing assistance for the medical event to be requested from each one of the at least one clinician eligible to provide assistance for the medical event.
-
Specification