Hill-Rom Services, Inc.

Frederick Collin Davidson

Britten J Pipher

Stephen R Embree

David M Girardeau

Kenzi L Mudge

Bradley T Smith

Kelly F Walton

Andrew S Robinson

Laura A Hassey

Eric D Agdeppa

Kiana Mathews Dezelon

Brandon M Ayers

Steven D Baker

Thomas A Myers

Douglas A Seim

Benjamin E Howell

Christian Saucier

Pamela Wells

Dan R Tallent

Jennifer A Gunn

Theophile Reginald Lerebours

Gavin Martin Monson

Keith Adam Huster

Steven Alan Dixon

Michael Scott Hood

Thomas F Heil

Charles A Howell

John S Schroder

Joshua P Lingenfelser

Eugene G Urrutia

Mary L Butler

Brandon Smith

Thomas M Gillis

Elizabeth A Kowal

Phillip Maloney

Tanya M Hawthorne

Bryan J Bello

Kelli F Rempel

Stephen N Moore

Bruno J Filliat

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Irvin John Vanderpohl, Iii

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Eric David Benz

Jason M Williams

Unnati Ojha

Darren S Hudgins

Matthew D Morgan

Mark F Hettig

Irvin J Vanderpohl

Richard E Sumner

Amilcar Moises Ubiera

Eugene Urrutia

Bradley Thomas Smith

Stephen Richard Embree

Kelly Walton

Joshua Peter Lingenfelser

Bruno Filliat

Stephen Moore

High-accuracy locating systems and methods are used for determining successful caregiver rounding, monitoring whether housekeepers have properly cleaned patient beds, or determining whether patients have ambulated sufficient distances during recovery. Patient beds having at least two locating tags are used for establishing patient care zones around the patient beds. Locating anchors and equipment tags are moved around a patient room to determine optimum locating anchor placement within the patient room based on signal quality values. A locating tag on a patient bed switches roles to operate as a locating anchor in response to the patient bed becoming stationary. A locating tag has a digital compass which is used to determine a field of good ranging relative to a front of a caregiver wearing the locating tag.

Ultra-wideband locating systems and methods

A care system includes a mobile communication device, a remote server, and a patient support system that is in communication with either or both of the mobile communication device and the remote server. The mobile communication device may operate as a user interface for the patient support system. The remote server may provide computing power for the patient support system for resource intensive computing tasks.

Location based home screens for caregiver portable wireless devices

Docking station

An information system for displaying virtual signage in a medical facility includes a treatment device. A visual identifier is operably coupled to the treatment device. A controller is configured to communicate with a remote device having an image sensor for sensing the visual identifier within a field of detection. The controller is configured to recognize the visual identifier sensed by the remote device, determine device information associated with the visual identifier based on a configuration of the visual identifier, retrieve the device information relating to the treatment device associated with the visual identifier from an information source, and generate a virtual image including the device information configured to be viewed via the remote device.

Virtual signage using augmented reality or mixed reality

A charting system is provided for use in a healthcare facility having a network. The charting system includes a microphone to receive voice inputs from a caregiver. A vital sign monitor obtains a vital sign from a patient and displays it. The system includes a communication device having a voice-to-text module that includes a processor coupled to the microphone. The processor operates a voice-to-text algorithm that converts the vital sign into text in response to the caregiver dictating the vital sign into the microphone. The processor initiates transmission of the vital sign to an EMR computer via the network after conversion of the at least one vital sign to text.

System for EMR vitals charting

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 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

According to the present disclosure, devices, systems, and methods for locating, tracking, and conducting communications between care devices and networks of care facilities through local communications hubs.

Discriminating patient care communications system

Incontinence detection with real time location information

Systems and methods for EMR vitals charting

A system identifies a first position of a tag in a clinical environment based on first times at which first receivers received a first wireless signal from the tag. The system estimates a second position of the tag in the clinical environment based on second times at which second receivers received a second wireless signal from the tag. The system determines that a boundary is located between the first position and the second position, defines a path range around the first position of the tag based on an expected movement of the tag during a time interval between the first and second wireless signals, determines that the boundary lacks a door within the path range, adjusts the second position of the tag based on the boundary map, and transmits a message indicating that the tag is located at the adjusted position at the second time.

Intelligent location estimation for assets in clinical environments

An example system connects to a location engine in a mesh network, transmits a first message indicating a bus master service hosted by a bus master, and receives a message indicating a location service hosted by a location engine and an aggregation service hosted by an aggregator connected to the location engine. The bus master stores a first entry corresponding to the location service and a second entry corresponding to the aggregation service. The bus master transmits a request to access the location service; receives a response confirming a subscription to the location service; and receives timing data indicating times at which the multiple receivers in a clinical environment received a wireless signal from a tag. The bus master aggregates the timing data into a data stream and transmits data stream to the location service in accordance with the subscription.

Flexible mesh network for locating assets in a clinical environment

A system can identify a first position of a tag in a clinical environment based on first times at which first receivers received a first wireless signal from the tag. The system can estimate a second position of the tag in the clinical environment based on second times at which second receivers received a second wireless signal from the tag. The system determines that a boundary is located between the first position and the second position, defines a path range around the first position of the tag based on an expected movement of the tag during a time interval between the first and second wireless signals, determines that the boundary lacks a door within the path range, adjusts the second position of the tag based on the boundary map, and transmits a message indicating that the tag is located at the adjusted position at the second time.

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Apex, NC, United States of America

Frederick Collin Davidson