Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Michael A Hood

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Keith Adam Huster

James Maurice Allen

Steven Alan Dixon

Dan R Tallent

Timothy D Wildman

Thomas F Heil

John D Christie

Jack Barney Sing

Clay Gerome Owsley

Umesh Jairamdas Rajani

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

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Batesville, IN, United States of America

Michael A Hood