Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Unnati Ojha

Eric David Benz

Dan R Tallent

Aziz Ali Bhai

Richard Henry Heimbrock

Charles A Lachenbruch

Gavin Martin Monson

Kirsten M Emmons

David P Lubbers

Frank E Sauser

Douglas A Seim

Scott M Corbin

Robert Mark Zerhusen

David Lance Ribble

Jonathan D Turner

James L Walke

Neal Wiggermann

John D Christie

Joshua A Williams

Bradley T Smith

John G Byers

Douglas E Borgman

Michael Buccieri

Catherine M Wagner

David J Hitchcock

Kathryn R Smith

Sravan A Mamidi

John Goewert

Clay Gerome Owsley

David J Brzenchek

Nicholas Comparone

Arpit Shah

Karen Lanning

Nathaniel W Hixon

Mary Kay Brinkman

Jared Rude

James W Pascoe

Florin Iucha

Todd S Ventrola

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Todd P O'Neal

Brian Lee Lawrence

Jason M Williams

Travis A Pelo

Daniel Nachtigal

Richard J Schuman, Sr

Frederick Collin Davidson

Bryan Weidman

David Lawrence Bedel

Darren S Hudgins

Michael Provinzano

Archana Vaidyanathan

Rakesh Karunakaran

Isaac J Charles

Todd P O'neal

David L Bedel

Douglas A Eckstein

Bradley Thomas Smith

Catherine Marie Wagner

Todd Steven Ventrola

Todd P O'NEAL

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

An apparatus, system or method includes a patient bed for use with a network including a remote computer. The patient bed includes a bed frame to support a patient and bed circuitry carried by the bed frame. The bed circuitry is configured to receive a new version of bed operating software from the remote computer. The bed circuitry includes a first memory bank and a second memory bank. One of the first and second memory banks stores therein a current version of bed operating software. The other of the first and second memory banks stores therein the new version of bed operating software received from the remote computer. Thus, two versions of bed operating software are stored in the bed circuitry. A memory toggle is used to determine which version of the operating software in which of the two memory banks is used to operate the bed.

Apparatus and method for updating software in a patient support apparatus using a memory toggle

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 method to be performed by a processor of a first computing device includes detecting one or more computing devices remote from the first computing device, establishing a peer-to-peer connection with a second computing device from among the one or more computing devices, comparing a first version of a software program installed on the first computing device to a second version of the software program installed on the second computing device, and upon determination that the second version of the software program is more recent than the first version of the software program, receiving second installation software associated with the second version of the software program and executing the second installation software to install the second version of the software program onto the first computing device.

Systems and methods for peer-to-peer automatic software updates

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

A patient bed may include a tag reader that may be connected to antennas on opposite sides of the patient bed. The patient bed may also include circuitry configured to produce, with the tag reader and the antennas, an interrogation signal from the opposite sides of the patient bed, to cause a location tag that may be mounted to a doorway of a room to produce a response signal. The circuitry may also be configured to receive, with the tag reader and with one of the antennas, the response signal from the location tag. Additionally, the circuitry may be configured to determine, as a function of room data in the response signal, a present location of the patient bed.

Technologies for efficiently tracking the location of a patient bed

A patient support apparatus includes a load frame, a support frame, and a plurality of load cells supporting the load frame on the support frame such that a load supported by the load frame is supported by the load cells, each load cell configured to produce a signal indicative of a load weight bearing upon that load cell. The load cells are calibrated after installation.

Hospital bed scale calibration methods and patient position monitoring methods

A method for monitoring an occupant of an occupant support comprises 1) establishing a lateral position history of the occupant, which history includes an assessment of how frequently the occupant's head undergoes a lateral transition on a head support, 2) establishing a vertical position history of the occupant which accounts for how frequently the weight of the occupant's head is applied to and removed from the head support, and 3) if the lateral position history indicates sustained repetitive lateral movement or the vertical history indicates other than sustained presence of the occupant's head on the head support, reporting that the occupant is in a state other than an acceptable state.

Method and apparatus for monitoring and reporting on the status of an occupant of an occupant support

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