Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Welch Allyn, Inc.

Dan R Tallent

Gavin Martin Monson

John D Christie

Eric David Benz

James D Voll

Robert Mark Zerhusen

Keith Adam Huster

James Maurice Allen

Kirsten M Emmons

Neal Wiggermann

Marwan E Nusair

David Lance Ribble

Ryan S Severns

Frank E Sauser

John V Harmeyer

Charles A Lachenbruch

Aziz Ali Bhai

Yongji Fu

Bryan Weidman

William Gifford Pittenger

Brett A Knittle

Richard Henry Heimbrock

Steven Alan Dixon

Douglas A Seim

Edward J Koors

Joseph T Canter

James L Walke

Michael Scott Hood

Stephen C Flint

Clay Gerome Owsley

Jonathan D Turner

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Irvin John Vanderpohl, Iii

Todd P O'Neal

Jack Barney Sing

Joshua A Williams

John G Byers

John Goewert

Unnati Ojha

Brian J Kendall

Gregory Wiley

Timothy D Wildman

Thomas F Heil

Nicholas A Mann

Scott M Corbin

Brandon P Fisk

Nicholas C Batta

Frederick Collin Davidson

David J Hitchcock

Travis A Pelo

Sravan A Mamidi

Daniel McCoy

Arpit Shah

Matt W Crane

Robert D Weitz

James W Pascoe

Umesh Jairamdas Rajani

Carl William Riley

Timothy Joseph Receveur

David P Lubbers

Bradley T Smith

Douglas E Borgman

Michael Buccieri

Catherine M Wagner

Christian Saucier

Brandon M Ayers

Kathryn R Smith

Daniel Nachtigal

David J Brzenchek

Victor Potter

Florin Iucha

Jared Rude

Karen Lanning

Mary Kay Brinkman

John T Harrington

Nathaniel W Hixon

Richard J Schuman, Sr

Todd S Ventrola

David C Newkirk

Steven D Baker

Brian Lee Lawrence

Eric D Agdeppa

Rachel L Williamson

Philippe Kaikenger

Kenzi L Mudge

Lori Ann Zapfe

Michael M Frondorf

David Lawrence Bedel

John S Schroder

Jason M Williams

Eugene G Urrutia

Alisa Robinson Salibra

Darren S Hudgins

Kristen L Stebbins

Catherine M King

Todd Ventrola

Nicholas Comparone

Timothy A Stanley

Michelle Kovach

Leigh Scott Coleman, Ii

A patient support apparatus includes a sensor capable of detecting vital signs, setting acceptable limits for the vital signs, and includes structures for monitoring the vital signs and providing local and/or remote indications to caregivers if the vital signs fall outside of acceptable limits.

Patient support apparatus having vital signs monitoring and alerting

A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, communicates with an electronic medical record (EMR) system in healthcare facility. The hospital bed includes a patient support structure to support a patient, a graphical user interface coupled to the patient support structure, and control circuitry coupled to the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays at least one input that may be used by a caregiver to chart data into an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient supported by the patient support structure.

Hospital bed having patient association control

Systems and methods of associating beds and/or rooms and/or patients are provided. One system and method involves using a signature of emitted light to determine a location of a patient bed in a healthcare facility. Another system and method involves reading a bar code from an array of redundant bar codes. Still another system and method involves manually entering location information on a graphical user interface of a patient bed for subsequent transmission. A further system and method involves sending bed ID and location ID along parallel paths from two independent circuits on a patient bed for receipt by two different transceivers and ultimately by two different remote computers that cooperate to associate the bed ID with the location ID. Still a further system and method involves using circuitry on a bed to mutate a received location ID and a bed ID into a single unique mutated ID such as by adding the location ID and bed ID and then performing a hashing operation.

Bed/room/patient association systems and methods

A patient support apparatus includes a base frame, lift mechanism supporting an upper frame relative to the base frame, a load frame, and a plurality of deck sections, a patient support surface, and a number of barriers positioned about the patient supporting surface. The patient support apparatus includes a notification system for visually notifying a caregiver of a condition or status of a component of the patient support apparatus.

Patient support apparatus

A patient support apparatus includes a frame and a mattress supported by the frame and arranged to support a patient thereon. A sensor is included to detect moisture on the patient and/or the patient support apparatus. The sensor produces signals indicative of the presence of moisture on the patient support apparatus. One or more alerts are output in response to the signals provided by the sensor to notify a caregiver of the presence of moisture on the patient support apparatus.

Patient support apparatus as communication intermediary for incontinence detection pad and patient diagnostic patch

A patient support apparatus includes a visual indicator in connection with a portion of the patient support apparatus. The visual indicator is configured to output a first indication and a second indication. The support apparatus also includes a communication circuit configured to communicate via a wireless communication interface and a controller configured to communicate with a service unit via the wireless communication interface. The controller is configured to activate the first indication in response to the service unit detected within a detection range, and in response to enabling a remote access to the service unit, the controller is configured to activate the second indicator. The activation of the second indicator identifies the controller of the patient support apparatus in communication with the service unit via the wireless communication interface.

System and method for identification of remotely accessed patient device

A system and method of patient bed communication and bed-to-room association in a healthcare facility having a network with at least one wireless access point (WAP) and a nurse call system is provided. A handheld unit is moved to a position within a pairing distance of a pairing zone of a patient bed so that the handheld unit and the bed are paired using a first wireless communication technology. A second wireless communication technology is used to send bed identification data (ID) to the handheld unit after the pairing operation has been completed. The bed ID is transmitted from the handheld unit to the nurse call system via a wired connection to establish a bed-to-room association between the patient bed and a room in which the patient bed is located. A third wireless communication technology is used to send bed status data and the bed ID to the WAP of the network.

Cable-free bed with wireless pillow speaker

Systems for voice control of medical devices in a healthcare facility are disclosed herein. The systems employ continuous speech processing software, voice recognition software, natural language processing software, and other software to permit voice control of the medical devices. Systems are also provided for distinguishing which medical device from among multiple medical devices in a patient room is the particular medical device to be controlled by voice input from a caregiver or a patient.

Voice control in a healthcare facility

A computing device for remotely engaging and managing a patient environment displays a video feed of a patient environment, and provides user inputs that, when selected, allow a caregiver to remotely change a condition in the patient environment. Access to the user inputs is restricted based on at least one of a distance between the computing device and the patient environment, credentials of the caregiver, and a condition of a patient in the patient environment.

Remote management of patient environment

An exit prediction system receives movement data, divides the movement data into segments of time, extracts features from each segment of time, and determines a pattern of movement from the extracted features. A patient exit from a patient support apparatus is predicted based on the determined pattern of movement.

Exit monitoring system for patient support apparatus

An incontinence detection system monitors an area for moisture events and wirelessly transmits moisture-related information to one or more notification devices. The system has a pad that includes a substrate and one or more sensors supported by the substrate. The sensor(s) emit wireless signals indicative of the moisture-related information. A sensor event communication system forwards the sensor signals to another device, such as a notification device. Portions of the system are included in a patient support apparatus, such as a bed.

Incontinence detection systems for hospital beds

Incontinence detection with real time location information

Hospital bed having rounding checklist

An absorbent article has one or more fluid filter layers to inhibit electrode traces from being exposed to low volumes of fluid to reduce the number of false positives that are indicated by an RFID tag of the incontinence detection pad. An antenna inlay has a sacrificial trace portion to permit testing for proper operation of an RFID chip electrically coupled to the antenna inlay. After testing, the sacrificial trace portion is severed. A fluid barrier layer blocks fluid from reaching portions of electrode traces that are located on a backsheet outside a periphery of an absorbent core of an incontinence detection pad. The power at which an antenna transmits to wirelessly energize a passive RFID tag of an incontinence detection pad is controlled to reduce the number of false positives indicated by the RFID tag.

Method of manufacturing RFID tags

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Hope, IN, United States of America

Dan R Tallent