Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Laura A Hassey

Bradley T Smith

Steven D Baker

Eric D Agdeppa

Andrew S Robinson

Pamela Wells

Thomas A Myers

Frederick Collin Davidson

Britten J Pipher

Stephen R Embree

Kiana Mathews Dezelon

John S Schroder

Douglas A Seim

Kenzi L Mudge

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Benjamin E Howell

Kelly F Walton

David M Girardeau

Joshua P Lingenfelser

Christian Saucier

Theophile Reginald Lerebours

Phillip Maloney

Bruno J Filliat

Stephen N Moore

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Jennifer A Gunn

Brandon Smith

Elizabeth A Kowal

Tanya M Hawthorne

Kelly Walton

Joshua Peter Lingenfelser

Bruno Filliat

Stephen Moore

Thomas A Meyers

Eric G Agdeppa

Bradley Thomas Smith

Stephen Richard Embree

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

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

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

Systems and methods for EMR vitals charting

A patient fall detection system includes a computer and multiple transceivers mounted at fixed locations in a healthcare facility. The transceivers are electronically coupled to the computer. A patient identification tag is worn by a patient and includes a tag transceiver. The high-accuracy locating system monitors a location of the patient ID tag via signals from the tag transceiver to determine whether a patient has entered a bathroom. The computer monitors at least one of an elevation of the patient ID tag in the bathroom, an elevation drop of the patient ID tag in the bathroom, or a time that the patient ID tag has been in the bathroom to determine whether the patient has fallen.

Bathroom clean monitoring in a healthcare facility

A system and method to determine availability of caregivers to respond to nurse calls or other alerts originating in patient rooms is provided. Caregivers are designated as unavailable depending upon room types in which they are located, or depending upon patient types in the rooms in which they are located, or depending upon how long they have been present in certain rooms, or depending upon whether the caregivers have designated themselves as unavailable, or any combination of the foregoing. A system and method to escalate alerts to other caregivers if a primary caregiver is unavailable includes escalating first to a designated secondary caregiver and then to a caregiver who is closest in proximity to the room from which the alert originated if the secondary caregiver is also unavailable.

System and method for caregiver availability determination

A caregiver badge system includes a caregiver badge configured to be worn by a caregiver and having a cavity defined therein. An identification badge is configured to be positioned within the cavity. The identification badge is removable from the caregiver badge. A transceiver is positioned within the caregiver badge and configured to communicate with a positioning system to identify a location of the caregiver. A battery is positioned within the caregiver badge to power the transceiver.

Caregiver locating tag having advanced functionality

Patient fall monitoring in bathroom in a healthcare facility

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Laura A Hassey