Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Jennifer A Gunn

John S Schroder

Darren S Hudgins

Elizabeth A Kowal

Kiana Mathews Dezelon

David M Girardeau

Collin Davidson

Sherrod L Faulks

Ronald W Taylor

John Moulson

Dino R Bostic

Adam Drufke

Bartholomew F Sferrazza

Richard Henry Heimbrock

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Frederick Collin Davidson

Kelly F Walton

David O Melgar

Patrick D Harrison

Hubert Lechable

Jean-Marie Remoleur

Jimmy Samson

Jerald W Judy

Bita Akhlaghi

Daniel Sampson

Edwin N Swift

William B Richard

Steven D Baker

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Eric D Agdeppa

Thomas A Myers

Douglas A Seim

Kenzi L Mudge

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Britten J Pipher

Bradley T Smith

Stephen R Embree

Andrew S Robinson

Brandon M Ayers

Laura A Hassey

Theophile Reginald Lerebours

Pamela Wells

Brandon Smith

Tanya M Hawthorne

Mark F Hettig

Richard E Sumner

Amilcar Moises Ubiera

Docking station

A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.

Bed interface for manual location

A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.

Voice recognition for patient care environment

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 mobile caregiver application is stored on mobile devices of caregivers for managing alert messages generated by a variety of equipment in a healthcare information system. The mobile caregiver application allows secure voice, text, and, optionally, video communication between caregivers using their mobile devices.

Caregiver and staff information system

A patient bed is provided in a healthcare facility having a network including a real time locating system (RTLS) and an electronic medical records (EMR) computer. The patient bed includes bed control circuitry that is configured to receive at least one protocol messages from the EMR computer and, in response to the at least one protocol message, enables at least one bed safety protocol in which at least one bed condition is monitored by the bed control circuitry. The bed control circuitry generates an alert in response to the at least one bed condition being in an undesirable state and no caregiver being present in the patient room as determined by the RTLS and communicated to the bed circuitry. The bed control circuitry suspends monitoring the at least one bed condition in response to the RTLS indicating to the bed control circuitry that at least one caregiver is present in the patient room.

Bed-based safety protocol control

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Jennifer A Gunn