Hill-Rom Services, Inc.

William Gifford Pittenger

Dan R Tallent

Keith Adam Huster

James Maurice Allen

Irvin John Vanderpohl, Iii

Robert Mark Zerhusen

Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr

Steven Alan Dixon

Michael Scott Hood

James L Walke

Charles A Howell

Edward J Koors

Kelly F Walton

Stephen C Flint

Matthew D Morgan

Brian J Kendall

Laurie Lee Gutzwiller

Christian Saucier

Matt W Crane

John T Harrington

Matthew W Crane

Irvin J Iii Vanderpohl

Patient care equipment includes a wireless coupler that transfers power and/or data between an architectural unit and the patient care equipment. The patient care equipment may also include additional wireless couplers that transfer power and/or data between first and second components of the equipment. The second component may be movable relative to the first component. A structure or hot swapping batteries is also disclosed, the swapped battery being charged on an inductive charging mat.

Wireless bed power

A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, communicates with an electronic medical record (EMR) system in healthcare facility. The hospital bed includes a patient support structure to support a patient, a graphical user interface coupled to the patient support structure, and control circuitry coupled to the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays at least one input that may be used by a caregiver to chart data into an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient supported by the patient support structure.

Hospital bed having rounding checklist

Hospital bed control and charting

Hospital bed with graphical user interface having advanced functionality

A patient support apparatus includes an electronic control system with client browser software running on a general purpose operating system that connects with a remote server via a high speed network connection. The browser and operating system allows the patient support apparatus to access and run programs not designed exclusively for patient support apparatus electronics systems. A general purpose microprocessor along with network converter circuitry allows the patient support to deliver messages in frames having intended recipient addresses. The microprocessor communicates with one or more graphical user interfaces and with a control system that controls actuators of the patient support. The control system may comprise networked nodes, such as CAN nodes for example. Isolation circuitry isolates the patient support from a network of a care facility with which it communicates.

Patient support, communication, and computing apparatus

A bed includes bed status indicators, such as a pair of spaced lamp modules that are illuminated to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed.

Bed status indicators

Patient support, communication, and computing apparatus including movement of the support and connection to the hospital network

A method and system of reporting the status of a bed () whose occupant is at risk of an undesired event, includes indicating that the occupant is at risk of the undesired event and operating a lamp module () to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed.

System and method for reporting status of a bed

Embodiments of an apparatus for controlling a plurality of modules coupled to a communications network of a bed are disclosed. The apparatus may comprise an interface module, a plurality of user interfaces, and a plurality of dedicated data links. The interface module may include a transceiver coupled to the communications network, a processor configured to output graphics data, and a plurality of transmitters configured to receive the graphics data and generate a plurality of synchronous graphics signals. Each of the plurality of user interfaces may include a graphical display. Each of the plurality of dedicated data links may be coupled to one of the plurality of transmitters and to one of the plurality of user interfaces.

Hospital bed having multiple touchscreen displays

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Aurora, IN, United States of America

William Gifford Pittenger